Excel on a Mac.

[ljs]

You cant seriously use Excel for mac and I would love to see your financial modeling skills on Excel mac performed without any shortcuts. I use bootcamp + office 2003 and I dont think there is any other way. Maybe on the latest mbp, Fusion can run office efficiently but this is clearly not the case on my 2007 macbook.

And btw, Metrostyles is right: learn Excel, not Numbers.

 

[flashback]

Excel works fine on a mac. I use a PC in the office and a mac at home / on the road, and there is really no difference. I actually prefer the Office 2008 suite on mac to any other version. I really don't believe these geeks saying that the PC version is better, as far as I can tell they are exactly the same. The fact that I like Office 2008 Mac is just a personal preference.

 

[keikun13]

I use both and am enrolled in a business program at a major university. Excel on Mac will get you through the easy stuff, but once you get into the more complex things, it won't cut it because it's lacking in some features that the Windows version has (namely statistics packages in my experience). Also, most instructors will only teach you how to use the Windows version of Microsoft products so you'll be on your own trying to figure out what to do on your Mac version (not that it's very hard to locate things, but it can be frustrating sometimes). I would recommend installing Boot Camp (or Parallels) and running Office 2007.

 

[tiecollector]

Originally Posted by HomerJ

Wait, people actually use Excel for real work?

Excel on Windoze is actually the only legit piece of software that M$ makes.

It's actually very good for what it is and how much it costs.

 

[LuxeStyles]

Originally Posted by tiecollector

Excel on Windoze is actually the only legit piece of software that M$ makes.

It's actually very good for what it is and how much it costs.
Why do you say M$, when Apple charges a lot more for their products? I guess comparing iWork and Office wont be representative of Apple being the more expensive company. But to even be able to use iWork, you need to spend a hefty amount of a Mac computer.

 

[LuxeStyles]

Where the hell do you download Boot Camp?

 

[ljs]

Originally Posted by LuxeStyles

Where the hell do you download Boot Camp?
No need do download it.
You just need to go into the application / utilities / directory. Then launch the Boot Camp assistant application

You can also type "boot camp" into spotlight

 

[stylesmurf]

Also use Excel for Mac, no problems here either. I don't use any macros though.

 

[JustinW]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

Excel works just fine on my Mac. I'm not trying to predict the economic armagedon, though, so ymmv

I have used Numbers, Google's online spreadsheet thing and Excel on Mac. I actually prefer Number, but it doesn't play well with Access. No major issues aside from that.

 

[Jay_1989]

i have the most recent version + the most recent macbook, i have no issue with any word office programs, including excel

 

[Toad]

I've actually used Excel on a Mac before, and it wasn't so bad. In many ways, it was actually the same as the Windows version. I think this was back in the 2004 version.

 

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by HomerJ

Wait, people actually use Excel for real work?
Wait, people actually do real work?

 

[REguy]

Reviving an old thread here.

For those that have used it, what's your take on Excel 2011 for Mac? I just moved from a PC to a Macbook and am concerned about Excel given all the terrible reviews. Apparently, the Mac version doesn't have the data analysis toolpak?! I would really love to sever the PC cord completely, but I needs my Excel.

 

[brown eyes]

Office 2011 for Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion works just fine.

I made the switch from PC to Mac earlier this year and it was a pretty seamless transition.

Anything you can do on a PC can be done on a Mac.

I don't do anything that involves complex formulas/macros on Excel. But I'm sure it's capable of it. The way to access those features might be a littler different. But for functions like AVG or STD, graphing charts or making tables, it's all there on Excel 2011 for Mac.

 

[yjeezle]

serious users use windows. seriously. it's f*cking annoying otherwise.