Will Excel for Mac 2016 utilize multiple cores on Mac?

Excel for Mac now has multi-threaded calculation, as of the release of version 16.9 on 18-Jan-2018. To update, go to Help > Check for updates. Thanks for all of your comments and support for this feature.
As mentioned in earlier comments, if you encounter any issues, please send the details to us by clicking the smiley-face button in the top right corner of the Excel window.
Thanks – Steve K [MS Excel]
710 comments
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Dr Pete commented
This is very important. E4M16 is neutered without this capacity. Please make it work like the Win client. It's the same price. A 2.5M workbook on an i7 takes 30 seconds to update. Noting your positive comment above from 6 weeks ago, John (MS XL), how are you travelling with this essential fix? Thanks.
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Robert commented
Until recently only had relative minor sheets to handle, until today ... Seems like Microsoft interpreted Mac users only wanting eye candy (sliding cursors), without anything under the hood (1 core, come one, while in the mean time working on scrolling issues).
Something really wrong with setting priorities. Could've been so good, Office Mac first out of the gates ...
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Scott Genzer commented
yes this is quite a limitation to only use one core - I run a Mac Pro 6-core and it is very pathetic to see it limp along using only one when there are five more sitting in the wings.
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Magnus Swetzén commented
I create and use large excel spreadsheets all the time. I've just spent time trying to figure out if number of processors could be changed in excel 365 for Mac as it can be done in the windows version. As it turns out Microsoft is once again "treating" mac users with a 2nd or 3rd class software instead of 1st class stuff. Still charging the same price though. Isn't that more or less fraudulent behaviour...
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Anonymous commented
I paid a lot of money for excel on mac and it's useless. I'm better off using Google Sheets... which is at least usable
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Anonymous commented
How is this even a thing? Watching Excel for Mac chug away when the PC version demolishes the same file is just terrible.
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Anonymous commented
This is the highest priority! I find excel for Mac is worthless when working on extremely large files, which we do on a daily basis.
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Anonymous commented
I am using office365 in a company environment and I have to say that I am amazed by the time it takes MS Office 2016 Excel to even register my entries on a complex but not at all large (<1MB) spreadsheet, and the sign on the status bar stating that it only uses "1 processor(s)" is frustrating... I think that the multi-core utilization is a necessity.
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Anonymous commented
I doubt wether it is a shame or a pity that multi core calculations are missing in Mac Excel 2016.
It's like having a Ferrari running on one cylinder.Actually, to save time I copy the Excel workbook to a Windows machine to do the calculations (1000+ Monte Carlo simulations). If that is the MS strategy for Excel for Mac 2016, it is working.
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Anonymous commented
+1
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Anonymous commented
this is really not acceptable since the cost for Mac version is the same as for the windows version and you get less for the same money and does not work effectively optimal as you would exspect. this is lemon
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Anonymous commented
We need to make use of multiple processors to make the Microsoft experience complete
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Faustino commented
faster excel is my vote, if that means multiple processors, then that is what my vote is
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Anonymous commented
Terribly, terribly slow in a worksheet that isn't actually that big :(
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Ricardo Ferrareto Jayme commented
I bought Office 2016 for Mac and requested reimbursement... it's impossible to work on complex worksheets... sometime i need to wait 10... 20 minutes... so, i hope that Microsoft look to us :)
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GaryG commented
Excel is very slow on my new 2.5 Ghz Intel Core i7 Mac Book Pro. It is astonishing to me that Excel is only using one core.
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John commented
Excel for Mac still uses only 1 processor when (re-)calculating spreadsheets. While this might give you acceptable performance when using small Excel files with big tables and cross-references it becomes a super slow nightmare!!! Microsoft pls finally get real and give us Mac users the power of multi-processor.
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Brandon commented
Wish I could allocate more than 3 votes to this.
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Anonymous commented
this is killing my mac-using friends. please consider improving this
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Kieran Wright commented
Lack of multi-core is driving me insane. It is faster for me to run Excel for Win 7 under a VM on my mac than it is to run Excel natively.