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I'm a mac user and I use excel a lot, help
Hi!
I have to use excel a lot for work and for school, the only problem is that I'm a mac user!
Numbers ( the excel version for mac) lacks of formulas, microsoft office for mac sucks big time, i had 2003 and 2008 and both of them suck! and yesterday I read 33 developers left openoffice.
I guess microsoft won and I will have to get a netbook with windows just to use excel only, or what would you do?
- blasdel 16y agoOffice 2011 just came out in the last month and restores support for VBA and much else. You could always run XP in VMware and use the Windows version of Excel.
- melling 16y agoVirtualBox is free. I would start with that.
- gvb 16y agoDoes Gnumeric meet your needs? http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ OSX: http://gnumeric.darwinports.com/ http://gnumeric.darwinports.com/
- devmonk 16y agoUse LibreOffice ( http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ ) or just use Windows. You could emulate Windows with VirtualBox/VMWare Fusion, but it is slow as hell. You can also get a lower end laptop ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1841462 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1841462 ) that is bigger and more powerful than a netbook for the price of a netbook. I'd only use a netbook if you want something smaller.
- dhume 16y ago* Numbers ( the excel version for mac) lacks of formulas, microsoft office for mac sucks big time, i had 2003 and 2008 and both of them suck!* I thought Numbers was Apple's thing? Did MS stop doing Office on Mac?
- danilocampos 16y agoVirtualize XP and run Office in that. Performance is great in VMWare Fusion. It's the best way to use Excel on the Mac.
- bbgm 16y agoI don't know how good the new Office for Mac is. It does look a lot better and early feedback has been positive. Having said that I run Windows 7 on a VM for one and only one reason, Excel.