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What do they do with Excel for Windows that they can't do with Excel for Mac?

• major505 8mo ago
  This is exactly what I do with my personal computing. I would prefer to be on linux, but a lot of people still sends me data in excel spreadsheets for processing, and lets be honest: apple hardware is fucking awesome. The feeling of being able to work away from my desk and dont care about battery, is so goooooooood. And I have to admit. Even if I dont like macos, my macbook with m1 and 16gb ram is probably the fastest laptop I ever own.
• tombert 8mo ago
  I'm honestly not sure. I'm sure my dad Googled something to use it as an excuse to not change. As I said in a sibling comment, I think they really just don't want to change and they are looking for excuses; I suspect even if I could prove that there's absolute feature parity between the two versions they'd just find another reason.
• e12e 8mo ago
  Excel for Mac has gotten a lot better - but I'm not surprised if it is still its own thing - with edge cases in format, macros, visual basic, linking to databases and data sources etc. I imagine excel under wine is better than the port to Mac in some respects.
  • tombert 8mo ago
    If you can even get Excel working under Wine. Older ones work fine, but AFAIK there's no way to get the modern Excel working on Wine.
  • bombcar 8mo ago
    The edge cases are where it can break, but they're getting smaller and smaller as Excel slowly turns into a web-based app.
• joseda-hg 8mo ago
  I'd guess PowerPivot and PowerQuery You'd think it's third party the way it locks up a file or makes it so you can't basic things like interacting with filters