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Excel 2016 for Mac brings lots of welcome improvements to the workhorse spreadsheet but also leaves out useful tools.
Pros
Moving to the cloud: Like the other apps in the latest Mac Office suite, Excel 2016 lets you store, sync, and edit files online, via Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service. You can also save Excel files to your Dropbox account.
Collaborate: Excel 2016, through OneDrive, lets you share documents with colleagues and collaborate in real time. You can chat online as well, either through a document chat window or through Skype.
Modern design: The redesigned ribbon for the Mac version of Excel borrows the look and feel of its Windows counterpart, presenting tools and formatting options in much the same way as Excel for Windows does. Excel also recommends appropriate charts based on spreadsheet data.
Moving across platforms: Excel 2016 supports many of the Windows keyboard shortcuts and most of the Excel 2013 for Windows functions, which should make it easier to use the tool across platforms. The update also includes an Analysis ToolPak add-in, PivotTable slicers for analyzing data, and an improved formula builder.
Cons
Macro limits: Prior to Office 2016, you could build macros in Excel for Mac. The 2016 edition offers what Microsoft calls a 'simplified' Visual Basic Editor (VBE), which allows you to debug existing macros. But if you want to build new macros, you need to do that on the Windows side or use an earlier Mac version. For those who built macros in preceding Mac editions, this is a big loss.
Bottom Line
Excel 2016 is probably worth the upgrade just based on its ability to take advantage of OneDrive. The new analysis tools and formula builder help keep Microsoft's spreadsheet an essential tool. Hobbling its macros tool, however, diminishes a bit of the attraction for serious users.
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Businesses that switch to Mac computers may encounter problems when attempting to open some file types, such as Excel Spreadsheet (XLS) files. Macs do not have a native program for opening XLS files, although spreadsheet software programs made for the Mac can handle XLS files, including Apple's IWork Numbers, a Mac version of Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice's Spreadsheet. You must purchase Numbers and Excel to use them on the Mac; OpenOffice is a free program.
Numbers
1.Download and install iWork Numbers from the Mac App Store and then follow the onscreen instructions to install the software.
2.Click 'Numbers' in the dock. The Template Chooser window appears.
3.Click 'Open an Existing File' and then double-click the name of the XLS file you want to open.
Excel
1.Purchase Microsoft Office for Mac and install the software on your computer.
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Click 'File' in the menu bar, select 'Open' and then double-click the XLS file you want to open on the Mac.
OpenOffice Calc
1.Download and install Apache OpenOffice from the OpenOffice website (link in Resources).
2.
Click the 'Applications' folder and select 'OpenOffice.' The launch screen appears.
4.Click 'File' in the menu bar, select 'Open' and then double-click the name of the XLS file you want to open.
Warning
- Information in this article applies to Numbers '09, Excel 2011 and OpenOffice 3.4.1. It may vary slightly or significantly with other versions or products.
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William Pullman is a freelance writer from New Jersey. He has written for a variety of online and offline media publications, including 'The Daily Journal,' 'Ocular Surgery News,' 'Endocrine Today,' radio, blogs and other various Internet platforms. Pullman holds a Master of Arts degree in Writing from Rowan University.
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