Lonely Star: How I Use Google Sheets for My Games. “Weird Writer said that I should make a post on how I do spreadsheets, as she thinks I might have something valuable to say on the subject (bless her). I don’t think I do anything too crazy with them, but considering a lot of people have been asking me about my sheets for my Arden Vul campaign which I post occasionally, I figured why not […]

Curious what alternatives to spreadsheets do people use/know about?

This is mostly from the perspective of making some kind of alternative myself, so would also be interested in knowing what spreadsheet annoyances people have. But would love to use something that already exists.

By "alternatives to spreadsheets", I mean like any way of quickly (or slowly) making custom visualisations or summaries of existing data, especially if the data and visualisation are kept separate. Also any other interpretation is fine, because I get that spreadsheets are more like a general medium than a specific tool.

#spreadsheets #DataVisualization #DataVisualisation #statistics

Any @libreoffice calc users here?
I try to wrap my head around the buttons/inputs in the navigator sidebar. The tree widget below makes sense, but are any of the other features useful? I could not get data range button to work and the up/down buttons; the collapse seems to be a usabilit hazard and the scenario button triggers a whole new view...

#libreoffice #spreadsheets #usability

Reconnecting

https://telinartho.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/reconnecting/

If you send me a screenshot of a spreadsheet full of numbers and expect me to do something with those numbers you are dead to me.

#meirl #mildlyinfuriating #spreadsheets #screenshots #ux

Need a little advice/help.

I'm trying to de-Google some spreadsheets. I'm hitting a wall on a certain function. Google allowed me to delete unused rows/columns, and then call $[sheetname].A2:D which would automatically adjust to the bottom of column D, whatever that happened to be at the time.

#Libreoffice Calc is not allowing this functionality. All I could think of was Define Range, but $[sheetname].[rangename] did not work for me.

Edit: Solved! Answer in reply.

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#AskFedi #spreadsheets

You should be able to add a document tab to a spreadsheet

Writing prose in spreadsheet cells is ugly and awkward and why have we just tolerated it for so long?

#spreadsheets #tabs #word #excel #libreoffice #googledocs #openoffice #squarepeg #roundhole

🐘 Αποκωδικοποιώντας τα #NULL!, #VALUE! και #REF! στο @ONLYOFFICE

Στο νέο post:

🔹 Γιατί η =SUM(A1:A5 C1:C5) επιστρέφει #NULL!
🔹 Το #VALUE! από αόρατα spaces ή αριθμούς ως κείμενο (και πώς τα φτιάχνει η VALUE() & TRIM() )
🔹 Το #REF! – ο "δολοφόνος" όταν διαγράφετε γραμμές

👉 Όλα αυτά, με παραδείγματα, στο άρθρο του ONLYOFFICE (Open Source, δωρεάν, συμβατό με .xlsx)

https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/el/2026/05/most-frequent-errors-in-spreadsheet-tables

#OnlyOffice #OpenSource #Spreadsheets #FOSS #Excel #DataCleaning #Tech #TechWriting

An unexpected thing that I just discovered is that I mowed my lawn on this date last year, and I unintentionally mowed it in the same direction as this date last year.

One might ask: “How do you know this?”

My response: “Why, I just checked my mowing log spreadsheet!”

Doesn’t everyone have a mowing log spreadsheet?!

(I mainly do it to keep track of direction because I like to change it every time to make it look more even. I also created an iOS Shortcut with a date picker and one of the four directions so that it can automatically get appended to the end of the sheet.)

#joysofhomeownership #mowing #spreadsheets #shortcuts