With its impressive tables and images, Numbers makes it possible to create beautiful spreadsheets, and comes included with most Apple devices. Use Apple Pencil on your iPad to add useful diagrams and colorful illustrations. And with real-time collaboration, your team can work together, whether they’re on Mac, iPad, iPhone, or using a PC.
Open a spreadsheet on a Mac: For a Numbers spreadsheet, double-click the spreadsheet name or thumbnail or drag it to the Numbers icon in the Dock or in the Applications folder. For an Excel spreadsheet, drag it to the Numbers icon (double-clicking the file opens Excel if you have that app). When your first purchase your Mac, either online or in the Apple store, you can include purchasing Microsoft 2016 with Excel for Mac, or a subscription of Microsoft Office 365 with Excel for Mac. Often, depending on offers when you make your purchase, you can bundle Microsoft Office with the purchase to save money or receive a discount.
Numbers starts you off with a blank canvas instead of an endless grid, so you have the freedom to move everything around your canvas at will and organize your data any way you choose. And everyone editing the spreadsheet has access to the same powerful features on iOS and macOS.
Drop your data into one of the gorgeous, ready-to-use templates, then customize your data any way you like. Select fonts and style cell borders. And add, resize, and apply styles to tables.
Numbers supports hundreds of functions. Its intuitive tools make it simple to perform complex calculations with great precision, figure out formulas, filter the data, and sum up what it all means. Use Smart Categories to quickly organize and summarize tables for an even deeper understanding of the story behind your data.
Impressive donut charts, bars and columns with clearly labeled numbers and adjustable sizes, interactive graphs, and a library of over 700 customizable shapes help you turn your numbers into beautiful data visualizations.
With Scribble and Apple Pencil, your handwritten numbers and data will automatically be converted to typed text. Jot down a formula, and see it turn into turn into text fast and easy.
NewWith newly redesigned forms, it’s never been easier to create and customize a form. Add a form to any table or use the new Basic form template.
Add a YouTube or Vimeo video to explain your data, then play it right in Numbers, without the need to open a web browser. Simply add a link, and play your web video inside your spreadsheet.
Match text flawlessly with RegEx functions. Easily manipulate text, match patterns in your data, and create formulas that are even more flexible.
With XLOOKUP, you can find values in columns and rows, or look for exact, approximate, or partial matches. Plus, this new function makes Numbers even more compatible with Microsoft Excel.
You don’t work in one place on just one device. The same goes for Numbers. Work seamlessly across all your Apple devices. The spreadsheets you create using a Mac or iPad will look the same on an iPhone or web browser — and vice versa.
You can also work on spreadsheets stored on iCloud or Box using a PC.
Work together in the same spreadsheet, from across town or across the world. You can see your team’s edits as they make them — and they can watch as you make yours, too. Just click the Collaborate button and invite people to join.
Sketch diagrams, mark up, or add color to help you visualize your data with Apple Pencil on your iPad.
Teaming up with someone who uses Microsoft Excel? Numbers makes it a great working relationship. You can save Numbers spreadsheets as Excel files. Or import and edit Excel spreadsheets right in Numbers.
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Many Mac users love Microsoft Excel for Mac. Excel is a critical tool for businesses and students all over the world.
Excel, an electronic spreadsheet, is where offices and companies keep their most useful data like finances and inventory. The paper ledger books used in the past for accounting and orders are now kept in databases like Excel, where the numbers and data can be easily stored, manipulated and used.
Even students and families use Excel for tracking grades, keeping a budget, and listing family chores to keeping score in a fantasy football league.
As common and useful as Excel is, many are surprised when they purchase a new computer and Excel for Mac isn’t waiting for them.
Not to worry. We’ll look at where you can quickly and easily download Excel for Mac. We’ll look at different purchase options for Excel, and a few of the best features of Excel for Mac so you can be sure you’re getting the most from your software.
As the name implies, Excel is not a native product for Apple. It’s a Microsoft product and part of the Microsoft Office suite. As of now, you can’t purchase Excel as a standalone product. You need to purchase it as part of the Office suite. Luckily, you get a lot of value with Microsoft Office, including:
You have several options for purchasing Microsoft Office and Excel for Mac.
When your first purchase your Mac, either online or in the Apple store, you can include purchasing Microsoft 2016 with Excel for Mac, or a subscription of Microsoft Office 365 with Excel for Mac. Often, depending on offers when you make your purchase, you can bundle Microsoft Office with the purchase to save money or receive a discount. Talk to the supplier about any specials they offer.
The easiest way to purchase Microsoft Excel for Mac is through Microsoft. Microsoft offers a free 1-month trial of Microsoft Office with Excel through Office 365, letting you test out the product and make sure it works on your computer before purchasing. You will need a Microsoft account before purchasing or signing up for the trial.
Microsoft is launching Microsoft Office 365 on the Mac App store. While they already offer the Office suite on Mac, as we mentioned above, you couldn’t purchase office for Mac in the app store. You had to go through Microsoft or through the Apple dealer. With this change, Microsoft made it easy for Mac users to install and manage Office and Excel for Mac in one place – the app store where they are already managing their other apps.
You can also purchase Microsoft Office for Mac from other online and store front retailers. This includes Amazon or Best Buy, where you can buy discs or a key card that you can use to download the software for both Mac and PC. Even online retailers like Newegg or retail stores like Walmart will carry Microsoft office. These include subscription to Office 365 or purchase of the Office 2016. We suggest going through either Apple or Microsoft for your purchase for better support for the software.
As you can see, you have plenty of options for purchasing Microsoft Excel for Mac. Next, we’ll look at a few of the options you have for purchase, so you can be sure the product you buy will meet your needs.
Currently, Microsoft Excel is available in two products – Microsoft Office 2016 and Microsoft Office 365.
There are differences in the pricing and functionality of both products, which can affect your buying decision:
With multiple versions of Microsoft Office available, it’s important to select the version that meets your needs. For a higher initial cost, but much lower lifetime cost with no updates, it makes sense to purchase Microsoft Office 2016. For the latest version of the software and access to OneDrive cloud storage, Office 365 personal is the choice. If you need to install the software on multiple devices, look at Office 365 Home.
Office 2016 was first released as part of Office 365 before it became a standalone product available for purchase. As of now, there are no public plans to release an updated, standalone version of Microsoft Office as a product to upgrade Office 2016, except for Office 2019 which will be released for Windows alone.
There have been upgrades to Microsoft Excel for Mac since Office 2016, which are only available in the Office 365 version. These include PivotTables. PivotTables in Excel for Mac is a fantastic tool that allows you to summarize and reorganize specific columns and rows of data to create a new report without making a new spreadsheet or changing the database itself.
Another feature of Excel currently accessible only in the Office 365 version are faster multi-thread calculations. With access to OneDrive, the Office 365 version also enables better collaboration between users, with more collaboration updates coming up in releases soon.
The days of cross platform functionality are here, and Mac users have easy access to Microsoft Office tools like Excel on Mac computers. Microsoft has made Excel fully compatible and ready to go for Mac. It’s just a matter of picking the right software options for you. Enjoy!