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> I would guess reliance on excel is declining

In some places, yes, especially where certain online options are good enough.

Definitely not in financial services, and many offices I could mention. Even for me: Excel is the reason I haven't completely binned MS Office. For the subset of features I use⁰ it is better all round¹ than other things I've tried.

I'll miss it significantly when the last Windows machine that I operate away from DayJob is no more.

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[0] Probably less than that 10%

[1] There are many tasks for which there is something better, but the something is different in each case. Excel is a very good jack-of-all-trades.



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