Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

[Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>]

On 28/12/2020 20:36, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2020-12-28 18:19]:
>> Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly
>> from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of
>> orgmode?
> 
> You have high expectations but Emacs Org mode does not nearly replace
> the capabilities of a dedicated spreadsheet.
> 
> In comparison to all major known spreadsheets Org tables is not
> powerful and not even comparable.

Without specific details on which functionalities are not supported in
Org tables, this advice is not useful.

There are many use cases in which Org tables are superiors to
spreadsheets, there are use cases where a dedicated spreadsheet
application works better, and there are use cases where a spreadsheet is
an horrible solution but whoever found themselves solving the problem
didn't know better and hammered around till they got a spreadsheet to
output what they wanted.

In my personal experience, in the 80% of the cases where a spreadsheet
has been used, it was the wrong tool for the job.

Without knowing what is the problem at hand, it is impossible to know
which solution is the more appropriate.

Cheers,
Dan