Excel 2008 for Mac flaws and problems vol 2
May 25th, 2010
Some additional points why Excel 2008 isn’t a good choice for business users. If you use PC in the office and want to edit your VBA/macros at home on the Mac, you can’t:
- formula bar in Excel 2008 is disturbing. On laptop screen it gets lost behind other windows. 2004 version was better.
- no Data Analysis pack
- no VBA macro support
I think some, if not most, of the Data Analysis pack features are built-in to 2008. There’s no question, however, that Mac Office is the red-headed stepchild at MS. Excel is particularly vexing. There’s also almost no support for creating or editing theme files.