Mac users familiar with Excel

[somany]

What spreadsheet program do you use on your Mac and how does it compare to Excel?  Need to be thinking about a new computer and would like to go to a Mac but really hate to leave Excel.  Considering looking into the Surface Pro also but thought I'd check into the spreadsheet available on the Mac first. 

TIA

[Deleted]

Excel runs on Macs -- all the Office programs do.

[val2525]

And files can be exchanged between mac-created and pc-created machines. Easy peasy.

I have the Microsoft 365 subscription on both macs and my PC. I still have 2 slots available, too, if I ever get a tablet.

[allikat]

I agree with the ladies, I have Mac at home and Excel at my office and DH's office and we send files back and forth all the time, no problems. Love my Microsoft Office for Mac.

[val2525]

Mac has their own knock off called numbers (unless they discontinued it?) and it does NOT play well with pc users. Excel is cross-platform.

Actually, most Microsoft products work better on a Mac than they do sometimes on the PC

[somany]

Awesome!! Very good to know. Now just need to get up the nerve to spend the kind of money it takes to purchase the computer and software. It would only be a section 179 (think that's what it's called) deduction on taxes, right? And then only for the portion used for eBay (which is 75-80%), right?

[val2525]

If it makes you feel any better, Macs last a LONG time. The first one I purchased in 2003 is still running and working fine. It can't be upgraded to the newer OS so that's why I had to buy a new one - old browsers weren't working on the various websites. Had the Mac been about 2 years newer, I could have upgraded the OS (the newer ones have Intel chips, my old one does not, and that was the main issue for upgrading). I still use it for a lot of things.

[SA]

After I got through my small learning curve with my Mac--I LOVE IT so much better than anything else I've ever owned. I just can't explain it.
I actually broke down about 2 months ago and bought a Macbook Air. I've never been a laptop person, but I have fallen in love with mine. Really. It's worth the money if you have it to invest into a computer/laptop that will last you a long time.

Looks for sales. In stores and online. And remember, Best Buy price matches   ETA:  They price match some bigger online retailers: Amazon, Newegg, etc.

[Deleted]

We are a Mac household, I guess its an addiction, they are just so integrated with each other. iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro and the Macbook Air. I love them. There is Excel and I think once people try Mac and they like it then they just can't go back.