Excel Interference

I got the renewal notice for my Microsoft Office subscription through a while back, £85 for the year. Enough to make me pause and think, do I really need this? Like most of you I use Office365 at work, extensively, and there is a lot of good to be found if you are embedded in a SharePoint / OneDrive / Word / Excel / OutLook / Teams / Powerpoint driven place. But at home I was mostly using Excel, and mostly for vanity projects that were, largely, just lists —a gigs list, a simple finance tracker, my digital detox tracker— so £85 seems a lot, especially when my platform of choice offers free alternatives. So I converted my spreadsheets to numbers and for the most part it’s been plain sailing. A few differences here and there for the basic things around formatting, filtering etc, but I’ve gotten past those. However as I’ve started to try and do things that are a little more complex —think formulas, charts, lookups— so I’ve run afoul of my decades of learned use of Excel. Call it…