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I am an (online) high school textbook author working for a company that services approximately 15-20 different states. Recently, several states have added the four major Microsoft Office Suite 2007 programs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access) as curricular requirements-for both Windows and the Mac OSX and I have just entered the planning stage for the Excel lesson. However, from what I understand, there are major differences between the Windows 2007 and Mac 2008 program versions. I only have access to the Windows version, though (our office is PC only.) I have searched every way I can think of to find some sort of comparison listing but to absolutely no avail. I was hoping to learn:. Is there some way to get a basic list of operative differences? Or are they really two distinctly different programs that may, in the end, require two different lessons?.
And assuming they require two different lessons, will I be able to understand/explain the Mac program without actually trying the functions myself, first? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I regularly use both versions of Excel (Mac 2008 and Windows 2007). The differences between them are largely attributable to differences in the operating systems - they just work differently. As far as spreadsheet basics go, however, there is little difference.
This is possible, MAC and Windows are 2 different platforms and the features of Office System on this 2 platform is also inconsistent (the Office for Windows has more rich features). >> How to make Excel VBA (on Windows OS) to work on Mac. This forum is mainly for discussing question about the Office on Windows platform.
The fundamentals are all the same. I've personally found the Mac 2008 version to be less sophisticated than Windows 2007. There are a number of features in Windows 2007 Excel which are not in Mac 2008 Excel, which strikes me as bizarre.
Additionally, a number of the plugins that are available for Windows Excel do no operate in the Mac environment, which is a sad loss. Given the choice of operating systems, Mac wins all the way, but given the choice of Excel versions, Windows definitely has the upper hand. Unfortunately, this has gotten worse over time: Excel 97 and 98, and then 2003/2004 were essentially identical on both platforms. For 2007/2008, there are many more differences. Here's a starter list of things that we have hit, by no means complete: 2008 can no longer run VBA macros 2008 does not have new 'ribbon' interface, but has menus more similar to the 2003/2004 versions 2008 does not have the Analysis Tookpack 2008 does not have the 'Find Duplicates' conditional formatting.
Sheets with this formatting give an error when opened in 2008, and will only open read-only, without the formatting showing. I suppose we could speculate about why Microsoft is making the Mac version less capable than the Windows version.
Excel for Office 365 Excel for Office 365 for Mac Excel 2019 Excel 2016 Excel 2019 for Mac Excel 2013 Excel 2016 for Mac Excel Online Excel for iPad Excel for iPhone Excel for Android tablets Excel for Android phones Excel Mobile When you create formulas and use Excel worksheet functions on a Windows RT computer, you may see small differences between the results of its calculations and the results on PCs with traditional x86-based architecture. This is due to a difference between the design of processors used in Windows RT and x86-based computers. These differences occur at a very high level of precision, such as at the 14th or 15 significant digit.