new to Mac and I want to use excel

**paulr0700282** · 10-18-2017, 05:08 PM

Hi

I have a heavily developed excel doc which I want to use on me new Mac book but I'm struggling big time

Can I get excel on Mac?
if not, is there a decent alternative?

google docs seems to be limited on the size per page - i.e. column z seems to be the last

numbers is ridiculously complicated to try and build in web query or web data

whys its so difficult lol - really frustrating

basically I need to be able to extract web data into an excel type doc which I can then add my formulas etc into

any ideas?

**63falcondude** · 10-18-2017, 05:14 PM

You can purchase Microsoft Office (or Excel alone) for Mac.

See here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stor...c/cfq7ttc0k5f2

That being said, I doubt that it will be exactly the same as Excel for windows.

**paulr0700282** · 10-18-2017, 05:16 PM

jeez, I've never paid for excel in my life

ok - thank you

can numbers pull html data from a web source do you know?

**63falcondude** · 10-18-2017, 05:27 PM

You can't expect an Apple product to come with a competitor's (Microsoft) software.

At the same time, you can't expect Microsoft to give away their software to a competitor's (Apple) product for free.

I, personally, do not know the first thing about Apple Numbers.

**63falcondude** · 10-18-2017, 05:33 PM

FWIW, I purchased Microsoft Office for Mac back in 2009. I was a basic user then but it was able to do everything that I needed.

I remember that all of the built-in features that I needed were there but in different locations.

Thanks for the rep!

**Kyle123** · 10-19-2017, 02:14 AM

Excel for Mac is terrible, it's especially limited if you're doing any sort of vba web stuff. It misses many of the features that are in the windows version, I use a vm on my Mac to run windows and windows excel.

Office 365 allows you to use both Mac and Windows excel on a number of computers

**paulr0700282** · 10-19-2017, 05:17 AM

my need is to have software which allows web data source or web query - I do not necessary need to use VBA as I can develop formula to get the same results

but to scale up and make things automatic I need the data source

does anyone know if excel on Mac would allow this as I don't fancy paying to find out I cant, otherwise I'd be reluctantly happy to pay lol - yes I understand Microsoft wouldn't allow this to be free on Apple

or - does anyone know how to web source on apple numbers, I think applescript might have similar capabilities but it all looks so complicated to an untrained eye