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  • I’m a Very Serious professional (inhouse) accountant. I use Excel because Visual Basic allows me to access the file system and automate everything. I don’t like it, but it is what it is. I sometimes make sheets that don’t even open Excel. In Excel of course. It’s probably not the right tool for that, but it’s the hammer that I’ve got and which the company allows.

    I know that LibreOffice also have macros, but in comparison, it’s much more difficult to program because there isn’t 1000 other accounts asking the same question online, so ressources are scarce.

    Also the keyboard shortcut for Autosum. Can’t find it in LibreOffice. At this point, it’s the only formula that I use, because I have been accustomed to entering my data in a way that everything is a sum. Substraction is a sum including a negative number. Multiplication is a sum of sums. Division is the opposite of multiplication, so also a sum. I only use Sum, with the occasional Sumif, Sumifs and SumProduct.

    I do use LibreOffice at home, but do wish they’d make a keyboard shortcut for Sum.













  • Back on in 2003 Adobe bought the freeware software called CoolEdit 2.0 and republished it as a paid product as Adobe Audition without changing a god damn thing.

    CoolEdit was too good to be true. It’s only fair that the developers got paid, but I just wish they didn’t have to sell out to Adobe of all companies.

    I hope this 2026 version of Audacity will finally be on level with what we had for free in year 2000.


  • Audacity is like a tape recording studio. It doesn’t support midi programming and VSTi as far as I know.

    Everything is a DAW if you’re brave enough, and there’s no strict definition, but for something to be a full DAW, it should have both recording and virtual instruments IMO.

    As of now, there’s very few free ones that does both and Reaper beats all of them as the cheapest paid option. However Reaper doesn’t do everything. Some paid DAWs still have features that Reaper doesn’t.