Microsoft Query Excel 2016 For Mac The Same

This forum is for troubleshooting compatibility issues between Macs and Windows.

I just downloaded the Office 365 Personal today because I was told by a tech that it would properly open macros.

So as far as I know, it is the most updated version of Office 2016.

Not sure what kind of lame support that is, but they recommend that I come on here to see if my question could get resolved.

In some ways, its still a beta version and every update adds significant new features.

Where VBA was completely unusable three months ago, now you can write simple macros.

Well see. In any case, the next update is due next week, so use HelpCheck for Updates on Wednesday and see if your VBA compatibility improves.

There is now Office 2016 (which is for Windows) and Office 2016 for Mac.

The Mac version has feeble support for VBA, though it is gradually improving with every update.

Youll have much better luck with Office 2011, which has 99 of VBA supported.

It may be possible to downgrade through your Office 365 subscription.

Please try this: Close all Office programs.

Open a web browser and sign in to your Microsoft account at this page: Click on Services subscriptions.

Hopefully, just below that, there will be a link for you to click on Install previous version.

Choose your preferred language and click on the Install button.

If there is no link, its because MS is tracking whether you actually had 2011 installed through Office 365 previously.

If you dont have a link there, Im afraid youll have to buy a copy of Office 2011.

And then it was a different tech that was absolutely no help at all.

Its sounding like the main file itself might have to be edited by the author.

That message can be triggered by things like the workbook including PivoTable report styles that are not available on Mac or using features that are not programmed for the Mac yet.

Without actually looking at the file, its hard to tell what feature that might be, and the error message is not specific at all.

You might ask the sender to save the file as a PDF, so you can at least see what is supposed to appear in the blank area.

Microsoft Query Excel 2016 For Mac The Same

Is there no special package or add-on anywhere to give excel for mac the same VB macro capabilities as excel for windows A UNIX VB library that can be command line installed Can anyone at Apple please explain this Will try microsoft but Im thinking that excel relies on core files libraries that are included in windows but not in OSX, so excel is only available in VB nerfed form to OSXMac users.