At the same time, Microsoft issued updates to the Office 2016 applications -- Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word -- to users registered with the Insider program, a preview deal that, like the Windows 10 Insider plan, lets Office users grab early builds. All Office 2016 for Mac users, not only those who subscribe to Office 365, may participate. Mar 27, 2014  ‎The powerful Excel spreadsheet app lets you create, view, edit, and share your files with others quickly and easily. It also lets you view and edit workbooks attached to email messages. Work in accounting, auditing, finance, or other fields, with anyone, anywhere with confidence.

My Excel in the Mac doesn't open some password-protected files of my Windows ExceL: in Windows, the Excel passwords can have an almos limitless number of caracters, but in the Mac the password must be 16 or less. The only solution I found was to reduce the number of characters in the password of the Windows files. If you have Office for Mac 2011, there is a 100 percent compatibility ratio, as described on the. I work with both and personally, I find Excel for Windows much more intuitive and more user friendly, but basically you can do (almost) the same with both versions.

But the most important part is, the two versions are 100% compatible with each other. I have Excel for Mac 11 and also use Excel 97, Excel 07 and Excel 10 on various Windows machines. Needless to say, there is confusion all over the place with the different menus, shortcuts, ribbons.

Shortcuts are different, keyboards are different. They do the same things, and that really depends on how complex your spreadsheets are as I think even with newer software, most people don't get too complex with Excel, be prepared that it will have to be done differently from machine to machine. Mac torrent download any good place. I think MS will let you do a trial so can get get a feel for it. I'm an advanced Office 2003/7 Excel user (Windows).

I've recently been using Excel for Mac 2011 and while you can do a lot of things with the Mac version, learning how to do them a different way for Mac makes it a royal pain in the proverbial. Ultimately, all the design has gone into the first Windows version and in the Windows environment is an awesome tool.

On a complex file, you might as well be learning a new application. I don't have the time to effectively learn a new application, so will be Windowsizing my Mac solely to use Office.

Troubleshooting Excel 2011 for the Mac Note: Between the steps below you can check if your problem is fixed in Excel 2011. Step 1: Shut Down and Restart your Mac Step 2: But sure that you have installed the latest updates for your Mac and Office 2011. Step 3: Installed add-ins can also give problems so go to Tools>Add-ins and uncheck them all in the add-in list and Close/Reopen Excel. If you not have problems now put them back one at the time (Close/Reopen Excel each time before you test) untill you find the one that give you problems. Step 4: Click on the Spotlight icon in the top right corner of your Mac and enter 'Disk Utility'to find and open open this program.

Select your harddrive and click on 'Repair Disk Permissions' and when it is ready click on 'Verify Disk Permissions'. Step 5: Problems with Preference and Toolbar files in Office 2011. But where are those files on your Mac?