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Code The City<p>On Wednesday, join us at Aberdeen Python User group as we look at Grist, a "modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid". </p><p>Our presenter Robert McWilliam will take a deep dive into its features. Then we will then have some challenges to try from simply using Grist like a normal spreadsheet through to using some of the more advanced features. </p><p><a href="https://ti.to/code-the-city/apug-may-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ti.to/code-the-city/apug-may-2</span><span class="invisible">025</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/meetup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meetup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Aberdeen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aberdeen</span></a></p>
Code The City<p>Next Wednesday, join us as we look at Grist, a "modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid". </p><p>Our presenter at Python User Group, Robert McWilliam will take a deep dive into its features. Then we will then have some challenges to try from simply using Grist like a normal spreadsheet through to using some of the more advanced features. </p><p><a href="https://ti.to/code-the-city/apug-may-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ti.to/code-the-city/apug-may-2</span><span class="invisible">025</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/meetup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meetup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Aberdeen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aberdeen</span></a></p>
Christian Kent<p>Total sidenote, just for <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>auspol</span></a> nerds, here&#39;s the <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> fun I&#39;ve had …</p><p>I nerdswiped myself because of my old faithful tactic being unavailable — I&#39;ll reveal it even if not valuable to most people — I used to take the Family First HTV and say thank you, because they were very useful — and then turn their HTV upside down. A handy alignment of 180° interests, in the 2010s for me. But they don&#39;t run everywhere anymore.</p><p>But once you go past the 2PP candidates, it doesn&#39;t matter of course</p>
Yvonne Perkins<p>I need to set up a private spreadsheet that is viewable and editable by an elderly relation (who uses spreadsheets all the time) and a couple of younger family members, one of whom lives interstate.</p><p>The obvious answer is Google Sheets. Is there an alternative that is usable for these people?<br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spreadsheets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheets</span></a></p>
NumeRe.org :cpp_language:<p>Just a qick reminder that we've published another blog article about in which cases <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NumeRe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NumeRe</span></a> is the better <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> app:</p><p><a href="https://en.numere.org/home/blog/when-numere-is-the-better-spreadsheet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.numere.org/home/blog/when-n</span><span class="invisible">umere-is-the-better-spreadsheet</span></a></p>
Art of Goulwen R<p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/scribesandmakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scribesandmakers</span></a> today’s question makes me think of this Japanese who uses <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Excel</span></a> to do art </p><p><a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-artist/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thisiscolossal.com/2017/12/tat</span><span class="invisible">suo-horiuchi-excel-artist/</span></a></p><p>Probably the best use of a <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> IMHO</p>
ExcelAnalytics<p>Another <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Excel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/User" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>User</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/failure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>failure</span></a> <br><a href="https://highlandradio.com/2025/03/26/donegal-ot-waiting-lists-double-that-previous-beliefs/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">highlandradio.com/2025/03/26/d</span><span class="invisible">onegal-ot-waiting-lists-double-that-previous-beliefs/</span></a><br>"Due to an administrative error, the waiting list data previously provided to the Regional Health Forum West Members was incorrect. This occurred due to the miscalculation of the OT excel spreadsheet whereby only one tab of the excel sheet was provided rather than the full total. This has since been identified and rectified and we wish to apologise for this error."</p>
Grey Liliy<p>Hello, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> </p><p>Does anyone know a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> alternative to Google Sheets that is cloud based and anyone can see with a link?</p><p>Did some light searching, but no idea what's good or not. Lol.</p>
C.<p>Just ran into a brutal <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> / <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> problem in LibreOffice Calc, on a Debian bookworm system, fully up to date.</p><p>1. Decide to print spreadsheet<br>2. Open print dialog<br>3. Preview is in the left pane, options in the right.<br>4. Scroll down in the options pane to find an option near the bottom.<br>5. Change setting, or not.<br>6. Scroll back up to the top of the options pane, using the pointing device vertical scroll wheel.<br>7. If the "number of copies" scrollbox happens to pass under the mouse pointer, it will rapidly increase the number of copies. It's not particularly obvious this is happening; it's easy to miss the value is changing.<br>8. Move the mouse pointer slightly up and scrolling the options pane continues.<br>9. Click "print".</p><p>Voila! 23 copies of what you wanted to print a single copy of.</p><p>I actually ran into this while trying to debug a totally different UI / UX bug 😱 </p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/LibreOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreOffice</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/LibreOfficeCalc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreOfficeCalc</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Calc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Calc</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/bookworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookworm</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/printing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>printing</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CUPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CUPS</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a></p>
Forse (he/him)<p>My brother needs a spreadsheet program secure enough to use for patient data.</p><p>Excel is MS and works like shit on Linux.<br>LibreCalc has terrible UI (so by brother says).<br>Google Sheet is Google and is not secure enough.</p><p>Suggestions? =)</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>excel</span></a></p>
ShantyMinister :mastodon:<p>So irritated I’m just now learning this MS Excel SUM data tip. 😭😭😭</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/nTpme-FmZbQ?si=1GkHzxQbBwXGa6XB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/nTpme-FmZbQ</span><span class="invisible">?si=1GkHzxQbBwXGa6XB</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>excel</span></a></p>
Abraham Samma🔬🔭👨‍💻<p>This kind of reminds me of a time I was asked to create what was essentially a bare bones controlled drug register in a spreadsheet for a small study. It worked but only because there were different sets of eyes monitoring it and I do not recommend it as a long term solution.</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_spreadsheet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_</span><span class="invisible">health_excel_spreadsheet/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/drama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drama</span></a></p>
Twan van Elk<p>They might be on to something.</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_spreadsheet/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_</span><span class="invisible">health_excel_spreadsheet/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hnz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hnz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a></p>
John M. Gamble<p>You can paint in Excel (so presumably also in LibreOffice Calc too).</p><p>I am genuinely boggled at how detailed the pictures are.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Excel</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ArtByNumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtByNumbers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-paintings/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/tatsuo-horiuch</span><span class="invisible">i-excel-spreadsheet-paintings/</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Nebu: A Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara — <a href="https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/nebu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wiki.xxiivv.com/site/nebu</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nebu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nebu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spreadsheet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Varvara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Varvara</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a></p>
kgoetz<p>Looks like this weekend will have to include time to review some <a href="https://aus.social/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> alternatives after <a href="https://aus.social/tags/mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mozilla</span></a> 's last bit of madness... Can anyone else say <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spreadsheet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheet</span></a> time?</p><p>Because I think there are definitely going to be that many options.</p><p>Side note: How the fuck is this all compatible with their pledge and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/manifesto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manifesto</span></a> (<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mozilla.org/en-US/about/manife</span><span class="invisible">sto/</span></a>)?</p>