Excel for Mac
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Add feature to list all functions and include all functions offered on PCs
Add feature to list all functions and include all functions offered on PCs
5 votes -
Fix PageUp/Down Left/Right key functions that were broken by 15.16.0 Update
If you are in the middle of a large spreadsheet, these keys apparently move the cursor off screen, but the display does NOT move. They seem to work OK if you start from the R1C1 cell, but not otherwise. It all worked fine before the 15.16.0 update on 11/10/15.
2 votes -
Add real subdivisions for logarithmic plots!
In college I've had so many lab assignments where we were required to submit a semilog or log-log plot that only spanned one or two decades, but still needed subdivision gridlines (e.g. gridlines at {10, 20, 30, 40, etc.}, not just at {10, 100}). I end up finding an image of graph paper with the subdivisions I need and just dragging that underneath the plot and moving and resizing it to match the plot. I don't have to explain how much a pain that is. It would be so much better if Excel could add these subdivision gridlines automatically!
2 votes -
Checkboxes double print when printing or save to pdf making them unreadable
When adding checkboxes to a sheet, then trying to print that sheet, print to PDF or Save as PDF, the checkboxes appear "double printed" making it very difficult to tell their checked state on the printed version. This bug has existed since the early betas.
3 votes -
Add webdav support
Hi,
I recently discovered that saving files to a webdav volume with Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2016 wouldn't work. I thought it was a bug and I opened a case at the support who explained to me that saving files to webdav volumes was not supported in Office for Mac 2016.
I think it would be a great feature to re-introduce webdav support in Office 2016 as it is a very good way to access your files from a network drive that works anyware, while keeping your content hosted corporately.
Best regards
12 votes -
Opening and Saving Files...
is not allowed in the 2016 Excel for Mac and I'm not sure what happened. Whenever I open an Excel file on my laptop, it always defaults to "15 (read-only) and gets really annoying when I have to open the file, save as "15" or "Copy of 15" just to save it, delete my old file and rename the new file. I can't even save properly named files as a name other than the names listed above. I've strongly considered making the switch to Apple Numbers instead of constantly dealing with how annoying this process has become. Please fix.
7 votes -
Sort Out Scroll Bars
Sort Out Scroll Bars. Version 15.14 sorted the "respect OSX scroll bar visibility setting", but they are still not initialising/positioning correctly. When visible all the time, often when you grab the vertical slider with the mouse, the worksheet will jump miles (and by that I mean a really really long way) from the current scroll position.
One aspect of the bug has been fixed, but there are still major problems.
2 votes -
copy a table from Excel and paste it a Mail message keeping all original formats
with 2011 version I am obliged to copy a table from Excel and paste it to Word, then copy from Word to Mail, in order to keep all original formats. Very slow and frustrating procedure. I hope the 2016 Excel version allows direct copy/paste of a table from Excel to a Mail message with all its original formats.
15 votes -
Keep graph format the same when scrolling to other data
When I scroll down to a next set of data to produce line graphs for several items, the format of lines and markers changes, which I do not want (the idea is to produce multiple graphs with identical formats). I can overcome this by copying the graph- paste special-format (onto this graph) before I start scrolling, but I have to do this again each time I re-open the excel file. Very annoying.
19 votesWould you be able to provide a copy of your work book and more detailed repro steps?
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Allow two open spreadsheets to share a search term
In my previous version of Excel (Excel for Mac 2011), if I had two different spreadsheets open at the same time, and typed something in the search box for one spreadsheet, when I finished that search, all I had to do was click anywhere in the second spreadsheet and my search string would magically appear in the search box in the second spreadsheet! I loved that & it saved me time. I didn't purposely set it up that way & don't know if it was a built-in feature or not.
2 votes -
Make opening files from disk as fluid as opening from OneDrive
Opening from disk takes longer than opening from OneDrive
That's a really cheesy move to increase OneDrive usage, please stop it
5 votes -
Paste a PDF-File in an Excel-Sheet
Paste a PDF-File in an Excel-Sheet with menu Paste/Text/Object like Office for Windows.
3 votes -
Handoff
You should add handoff support for both word, excel, powerpoint and outlook on mac and iOS.
4 votes -
Distribute Office 2016 apps via the Mac App Store
Receiving updates would be easier avoiding the malfunctions of the AutoUpdate app.
9 votes -
Just One opening/start Dialog And my Own Cloud service and one more thing...
Hi,
1.) When opening Excel, you get the nice, open/recent/new dialog, ( Okay, its is New, recent then Open ;p ) then f.e. you choose open, then you got two choices OneDrive and On My Mac. If we choose MyMac then it close the dialog and then wait, wait, it opens a new file browser. Why?, why not open the file browser in the dialog itself? Much more smooth and logical.
2) Would be nice if we could add( or an API for developers to write other or our own cloud services at the top left icon.
3) Please give…5 votes -
Don't show the return key in the formula bar/field.
When you select a cell inside a table end the header does have a Return character, then you wont see the whole formula in the formula bar. Why? Why do we have to enlarge the formula bar downwards to see the whole formula. I have one table header which got 4 returns to have a nice layout, but when selectin a cell underneat, it looks terrible in the formula field or bar.
Its also confusing,
Thank you.Prio 1. Fixed in next version would be great.
5 votes -
Odd Clipboard Behavior
I use TextExpander from Smile Software to do nearly everything on my Mac both personally and professionally. Currently, Excel is doing something that prevents TextExpander from accessing the clipboard the way it has in the past.
I can use TE in Excel just fine until I copy something to the clipboard from Excel. At that point, TE stops working correctly. This is fixed by quitting and restarting Excel. I would consider this a bug, and it certainly ruins most of my Excel-related workflows.
I post this here in the hopes that somebody at MS sees it or that some helpful…3 votes -
Asian fonts inconsistent in sheet name tabs on redraw
There seems to be a problem with the display of Asian fonts.
When I first type the names of the sheets, it works perfectly and displays with the expected font:
http://i.imgur.com/AXxAqN5.pngWhen I change something in one of the sheets, however, and the names of the sheets are redrawn, the font for the Japanese and Chinese characters becomes bolder and harder to read, while the Korean script simply doesn't display at all:
http://i.imgur.com/wGHWQsl.png2 votes -
Keeping the Clipboard filled after Cmd=
When I copy cell data into another, do f.e. Cmd=, then the clipboard is empty. Why? Just a bug for now or ment to be?
3 votes -
Refreshing red knob not working when.....
Not really an idea, but more a bug. When I got a sheet with two windows, and f.e each has a separate tab visible, and I save a dirty window ( red knob has a dot ) then not al red knob's in each window are updated.
4 votes
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