However, if you are planning to use some advanced functionality in Excel, you will find that some features just dont work and there is no clear path for supporting that functionality in Office for Mac.

Given that, it is important to know them, especially when you have Mac at home and PC at work (or vice versa).

Keyboards and Shortcuts Keyboards on PC and Mac are different, which means there is a difference in shortcuts.

For example, if you need to use Page Up or Page Down, you would need to click FN UpDown arrow on Mac.

Some of the shortcuts that work on PC would not work on Mac (for example, Paste only formulas or Paste Link and others).

You can access a hot key list that can be used for both PC and Mac.

Missing PowerPivot and Pivot Charts Excel for Mac does not support PowerPivot and Pivot Charts.

Any pivot table having source data based on the Excel Data Model will be unfilterable if the spreadsheet is opened by a MAC user.

Pivot Charts are not interactive on Mac and dont change simultaneously with their source Pivot Table.

VBA Weaknesses Before Excel for Mac 2016, VBA was non-existent and in a very sorry state now compared to its Windows counterpart.

Moreover, you can not import or export your VBA codes collection.

Solution If accessing Windows-only or version specific features on your Mac is the goal, the solution would be to install Windows Excel with Parallel or Boot Camp.

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Parallels software has a 14-day free trial, and then youd have to pay for it.

Parallels.com allows you to run both operating systems simultaneously, you can easily switch between them and dont have to reboot your computer.

Go to Search on the top right corner of your Mac, type Boot Camp, and run it following the instructions.

When using Boot Camp, you have to reboot your Mac to switch between the operating systems.

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After installing Parallels or Bootcamp, you need to download Windows from the Microsoft website (free for one month).

Conclusion Overall, you can use MS Excel for Mac for most actions and functionality, however, if youre planning to use some advanced functionality, it would be better to use Windows Excel (which you can easily install on your Mac via Boot Camp or Parallel if needed).

Now you can play and learn MS Excel at the same time, and do it on any type of laptopcomputer you have.

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