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There is definitely a bubble effect here. Every trendy startup seems to use gsuite, but you'd be looked at quite strangely if you suggested it in some of the circles I've worked in.

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And yet, my father works at Airbus and they switched to gsuite last year. Needless to say, the transition from excel to gsheets is not easy, but he's learning javascript in the process.

Wow, really? That's insane. I wouldn't/couldn't imagine a company move away from Excel, wow.

Wow.

Google Sheets supports 99% of what Excel does and most existing sheets can be imported as is.

Of course, odds are that the company's One Critical Sheet that reimplements SAP in Excel is critically reliant on the 4DMATRIXTRANSFORM.OLDCHURCHSLAVONIC() function that falls into the remaining 1%.

> Google Sheets supports 99% of what Excel does

VBA is more than 1%, and Sheets doesn't support it at all.

And I hope they never support it, otherwise it will become even slower than it is now.

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