I use both and I don't think Sheets is anywhere close to a substitute for excel if you're a power user. If you are a fairly basic user of excel, Sheets should be fine. I think collaboration works better in Sheets.

If you really prefer Outlook (which I do, but probably primarily because I'm used to it), there's nothing stopping you from using Outlook for email if you are using Google Workspace. There is a Google plugin for Outlook that will easily authenticate all of your Google accounts. If the primary gripe is how the Google web interface deals with email, that's easily solved be simply installing Outlook.

I've also found Drive for Desktop works perfectly well with MS Office files. I loathe Dropbox. OneDrive obviously integrates much better with MS Office.

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primary gripe is how the Google web interface deals with email

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what does "deals with email" mean?

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primary gripe is how the Google web interface deals with email

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what does "deals with email" mean?

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You aren't asking me but I think I can answer. Simple example, you and I have an email conversation where we both send three messages. Outlook would show that conversation as

A
B
C
D
E
F

Meanwhile Google might show it as

A
D
F
C
B
E

Then God forbid you have a third party and all three of their messages. Any email conversation in Google becomes really difficult to follow if it's more than a couple of messages in total. If you have to go back and read a thread to find what someone said it gets confusing fast.

I don't really see this happening, but then again society has gone away from long threaded email conversations and into more conversational chat platforms like Slack or Teams for this very reason. The days of email chains are over folks.

If you have so many people jumping in at random times on a long winded email thread and everyone is getting confused, this isn't an email client problem.

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I don't really see this happening, but then again society has gone away from long threaded email conversations and into more conversational chat platforms like Slack or Teams for this very reason. The days of email chains are over folks.

If you have so many people jumping in at random times on a long winded email thread and everyone is getting confused, this isn't an email client problem.

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Agree if this is an internal conversation. We rarely email one another internally. It's all in Slack.

However, conversations with external people can't always be solved with chat platforms. I have this exact issue today that he pointed out. It was one of the issues I ineloquently pointed out earlier.

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I don't really see this happening, but then again society has gone away from long threaded email conversations and into more conversational chat platforms like Slack or Teams for this very reason. The days of email chains are over folks.

If you have so many people jumping in at random times on a long winded email thread and everyone is getting confused, this isn't an email client problem.

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This is entirely based on the size of the org and how much of the conversations are internal vs external. 100% of my clients communicate with me and my staff by email or text and only one of them used Slack or Teams at all. Right now those are not small business solutions.