MS Excel to GSheets for Accounting - Kenya

Hi guys!

I am an IT head for 600+ employees (FYI way in over my head, 10 years ahead of the curve in early twenties) in Kenya. Largely my unique contribution is being digital native / growing up on the internet, real startup experience and typing 130+ WPM. :)

I am trying to convince teams here (15-25 office accounts) to transition to GWorkspace, which is my native envt. and which I'm most comfortable with/convinced about. However, the entire company/country is built on MS Excel/Word/PowerPoint.

Currently, company is using Fasthosts (weird UK-based company for email/webhosting) for email, besides that my predecessor installed pirated Win10/11 and MS365 on systems, which I'm trying to undo - factoring in MS365 vs GWorkspace subscription costs.

As far as I've seen, there is no one-time option for MS365 anymore

The accounts dept. is Excel-native, rest of org is Word/PowerPoint-native. I have both grown up on and "mained" GWorkspace.

How do I get the org to jump ship? Feel free to ask question if you need more data: happy to share. Success stories much appreciated!