Why is Excel 2016 for Mac so bad?

What, in particular, do you find that's slow in Excel?

It's general running, for starters.

I use Excel 2011 for mac to manage a taxi fleet. Admittedly the document is large and complex, but its confined to only typical formulae. No macros or anything. On the same computer Excel 2011 runs the document without issue while the excel from Office 2016 can't run the document in any usable way. There exists a myriad of problems which include but are not limited to:

• Switching between sheets incurs white screen latency of about 8 seconds.
• Scrolling down a sheet is abominably slow and can in fact crash the program.
• Selecting a cell with any sort of nested formula can take between 2 and 10 seconds to show in the formula box.

Yes, I did spend about 18 hours rebuilding the document from scratch in case there was some kind of corruption.

No, Office 2016's Excel, even then, couldn't handle the complexity of the document.

The fact of the matter is that the version of excel in Office 2016 is in NO WAY (at least in my experience) an upgrade from the excel in Office for Mac 2011. Aside from it's inability to run, there are simple features the 2011 version has that the 2016 version does not. Why, for the love of god, is there no single page view?

A little over a year ago when I discovered all of this I was fortunate enough to come across a Microsoft employee who, despite informing me that the 2011 version was no longer available for purchase, allowed me to download it as part of my office 365 subscription. That suited me just fine. Until now.

Mac releases High Sierra. Such is the imminent demise of 32-bit programs. Upon learning of Mac's elitist policies regarding this, I find my way to this thread, hoping against hope, that in the mean time Microsoft has fixed all the problems I discovered back then.

No such luck. Instead I find a forum MVP insisting over and over that the problems don't exist. Woe is me.

Fortunately for Microsoft, I think their inability(disinterest?) in creating a truly cross platform experience, is less hateful than Mac's elitist policies regarding 32-bit programming. So my path forward will likely result in me moving off Mac rather than moving away from office. Although I haven't spent much time in the excel for windows, it may yet incentivise me to move away from office all together.

I am staggered by the length of time this issue has gone on for.  I have Excel for 2011 on my iMac and 2016 on my MacBook Pro and have been contributing to the MS Excel forum for some time (probably since 2011).

The big issues are:

1.  Macro design has been crippled by the simple and effective removal of the "use relative references" button when recording.
2.  Macros design has been further crippled by the removal of the facility to design User Forms.
3.  Most if not all of the shortcut keys are either differently allocated or deleted.

There are many other small differences which I find daily.  I am considering alternative software (such as LibreOffice) - you don't have to buy Microsoft products!

The sale of this crippled software I believe is a scam and there is talk of a class action against MS for selling it without informing MS's dedicated consumer base.

Hi Alex, added You on list. Will get back at You but Kindly send me an email to send You info and updates!!

After 2 months of running around came to the final conclusion that MS has no interest in solving issues of the program office. Since early start the program begun giving issues and reckless emails and calls worth zero. Now again and this time not Word but Excel failing to work with some basic issues. Summarising: 1) Operators asked me to re-install office (done no solution) 2) Then asked me to re install operating system (done) 3) Install older versions (done - no solution) 4) We are sorry but we can't solve the problem....go ahead and sue us - we can't solve the problem and frankly we don't care(this was the general summary). Well folks I am working to commence a class action against MS as I see many many many people lament issues and MS not caring in whatsoever . Contact me on ******@gmail.com if interested in gathering compensation for loss of business and opportunities, time spent and foolish company dealing with the issue with no care!!

I would be happy to sign up to a class action law suit against Microsoft for their appalling software which I spent nearly one hundred pounds sterling on.