“The first time I realized that there were differences in Microsoft Office for Mac [vs. the Windows cersion], I was waist-deep in a complicated Excel table,” Alexander Fox reports for Apple Gazette. “Turns out that there are many disappointing differences in Microsoft Office for Mac when compared to Microsoft Office for Windows.”
“Here’s a list of the major features you won’t find in Microsoft Office for Mac,” Fox reports. “It’s not guaranteed to cover everything, but it should hit in the highlights.
“These missing features will almost certainly not be added to Office for Mac in the future,” Fox reports. “If you absolutely require the missing features, you can install Parallels to run the more complete version of Office or install Boot Camp on your Mac.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Par for the course.
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I refuse to do Windows, run Parallels, FU to Office anyway.
Ok nice parallels sales point but find the features no in windows office thats on Mac. When I was at Apple the office rep highlighted a big set of features on mac thats not on windows
Try opening two excel spreadsheets in windows…then put them side by side..try it with PowerPoint two 😉
Agreed cant do that on windows. Thats a fundamental flaw
Actually, you can. I do it all the time. Not sure how much exposure you have had with Windows…
Every day. You using 365?
“The first time I realized that there were differences in Microsoft Office for Mac [vs. the Windows version]….”
Is this a time warp story pulled from the 1990’s? I had to do a double take. While Excel was originally written for the Macintosh OS, all changed when Windows (the gui version bolted on DOS) came along. Office for Windows vs Mac have been different products in important ways for a while.
What no “Apple Excel Settlers, real Excel users use the PC version” comments from MDN?
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It’s excel….who cares lol
Obviously not you, so you should leave commenting to those of us who do.
i’m sure it will be some exciting comments on the fun filled microsoft excel lmao
it’s painful if you’re a power excel user. painful. outlook on a mac kind of sucks also but you can get by. keynote blows powerpoint away though. i’d use apple mail if i could but the ical is no match for exchange calendaring.
The best things going for Microsoft were purchased, not developed in-house. Microsoft basically sucks big ones, and I avoid purchasing or even using Microsoft products whenever possible. My dislike for Microsoft is long standing and unlikely to ever change. I hold a grudge.
The only U.S. company that I dislike worse than Microsoft is Google. Their entire data collection and mining operation gives me the creeps. I have warned family and friends against it. I would not even wish Google on botty. Now that is saying something!
I like grudges, especially against MS Anything
If MS sucks so bad, why is Gates so rich? Guess he did something right.
That’s why you don’t were your money on Microsoft Office and adopt and evangelize LibreOffice instead. Cross-platform compatibility actually works in the case of LibreOffice, whereas not so much in the case of Microsoft Office!
I wish I could use Pages but it is still not ready after years of development. Its handling of tables remains woeful – you cannot enlarge a single cell and you cannot break a row over a page – so that if there is a lot of information in one row it automatically puts the whole of it on the next page rather than breaking it over two pages.
Further – anyone who (like me) needs to share and edit files with other people or companies who use MS Word have no choice but to use it. For all the differences between the Mac and Windows versions, this is the most compatible option. LibreOffice and Pages cannot export as seamlessly as Word for Mac and, in any event, LibreOffice is no better than Word for Mac. Pages is by far more streamlined and enjoyable to use – but, frustratingly, is not ready for serious work.
True Josh. When you need 100% Word compatibility, you have no choice. I wish it were not so, but it is.
The keyboard shortcuts is a non-issue and just displays the writer’s ignorance. Keyboard shortcuts can be created from System Preferences in MacOS and be assigned to specific applications.
Most of the other differences have since been fixed or are trivial for a Mac user with half a brain.
Office 2016 for Mac is indeed a huge improvement over previous versions of Office for Mac. But there IS a problem: The Autoupdate does not function correctly; this appears to be a universal problem.
However, the user can download updates for individual components directly from Microsoft here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/update-history-for-office-2016-for-mac-700cab62-0d67-4f23-947b-3686cb1a8eb7