While mobile app-based versions of Office aren’t quite up to speed with their desktop/laptop counterparts, and even though we may never get an Office version for Linux, despite what Jack Wallen, contributing writer for TechRepublic has written, Office 2016 for Mac goes a long way toward making Apple products a legitimate alternative for business users interested in “getting work done.” With its latest release, Microsoft® seems genuinely committed to providing all Office users with the full functionality of its industry-leading product suite, independent of a specific operating system platform. Here is a handy reference from Microsoft®. Power users of Windows-based Excel® will be pleasantly surprised at the number of keyboard shortcuts that Microsoft® has ported to the Mac, as well. Microsoft® also has included a number of popular formulas that had been missing in previous Mac versions of Excel®. NOTE: The Analysis ToolPak is installed but not enabled by default – for instructions about how to activate the plugin, Microsoft® also has provided instructions here. One such feature that is new to the Mac OS platform in this release is the Analysis ToolPak for Mac plugin which features support for a number of analytic functions, including analysis of variance, ANOVA, and regression tests, a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. Microsoft® Excel® has received a major functional overhaul and is the beneficiary of a number of improvements that data analysts and other number crunchers will appreciate. Dave Coursey, self-employed technology writer, broadcaster, and consultant, provides an excellent discussion on how this move reflects Microsoft’s strategy for the so-called “post-PC” world here. With its latest release of the workplace-standard Office suite of applications, Office 2016 for Mac, Microsoft® brings a number of features to the Mac OS X platform that had been sorely lacking from previous “for Mac” versions. Google Chrome book or Excel online version does not have the option to install the Data Analysis Tool Pak.By Christopher Johnson,* IT manager, AITSĪ familiar trope in IT circles relates the traditional view that while Apple products may look nicer, Windows machines are required for actually “getting work done.” Perhaps ironically, one company that is challenging that notion is none other than the maker of Windows – Microsoft®. To use the Data Analysis Tool to create a Frequency table and Histogram, it must be installed in a Desktop version of Excel.

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