Why is Excel 2016 for Mac so bad?

Anonymous
2016-08-27T19:22:32+00:00

I'm wondering what people think - Excel 2016 for Mac seems to be so bad that it must be intentional. Am I wrong? Is Microsoft still waging a low-grade war on Mac users by making their products subtly awful on a Mac? Is it just that they have really bad developers? Is it that the developers are good but the management somehow makes them do terrible work? Is it that whoever is in charge of designing Excel for Mac has an ex who uses it for his/her job and this person has devoted his/her life to making his/her ex's life bad in confusing ways? Has a nefarious actor infiltrated Microsoft in order to make their products just bad enough that companies will continue to use them but their awfulness will create a small long-term drag on the US economy? Answers would be appreciated. Thanks!

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  1. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP
    2018-10-11T13:56:07+00:00

    Whatever happened to the Universal Turing Machine - it ran everything!

    Oh, that's Microsoft PowerPoint!

    (Warning - incredibly geeky humor follows)

    On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK) - YouTube

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-10-09T05:35:39+00:00

    I am having the same issue..the numbers end up in the wrong cell and it's nerve rattling trying to chase the cause down.I lose so much time I want to SCREAM!!   I'll will check out your header discovery. How lazy can their programmers be?

    Thanks for the tip... but this is really ridiculous.. the 2011 edition is luring me back!!

    Mike

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  3. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP
    2018-09-17T14:01:15+00:00

    Are you referring to the Find All button in the Excel for Windows search?

    Oddly, I've seen several mentions of this feature here in the Community Forum, but I don't see any requests for this feature in the UserVoice forum, which is specifically to request features. I would definitely vote for implementation of Find All if someone were to post the suggestion here and reply in this forum with a link to the reuqest.

    Excel for Mac

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  4. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP
    2018-09-16T17:20:57+00:00

    Hi Mnity

    I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

    If you search for something, you can click the arrows to the right inisde the search box to move to the next match or back to a previous match. You can use the keyboard shortcut Command-g to move to the next match, as well.

    If you click the button by the spyglass symbol you can choose Advanced Find or Replace to display the old Find dialog.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-02-02T19:39:41+00:00

    I am finding the upgrade is unworthy. They have messed with little things that make it more difficult to use. This includes no more quick key to get to the first cell in a worksheet. Second, inserting a cell now defaults to down instead of bring up options. You now have to right click to get it. Third, If I want to move a series of columns down, I would select the cells above and then just insert. Now it just pastes another two columns in, rather than move down by a row at a time. 

    Just a pain for simple things.

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