Like the title says – how similar is Microsoft Excel for Mac to Excel for Windows? Is it confusing when you have to keep switching from one to the other when working on a complicated excel file? (For example using a Mac at home and Windows at work). Are the formatting and formula inputs exactly the same? Thanks for any answers!
Mac – How similar is Microsoft Excel for Mac to Excel for Windows
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Best Answer
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 BrightHub review.
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.