Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac - Excel 2011 review 6 Price 162 The biggest news in Excel 2011 is that macros are back.

For many Mac-based Excel users, Office 2008s lack of support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripting was a deal-breaker.

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Dependent on existing macro code for business processes, they had no choice but to stick with Excel 2004.

Neither, however, had the power of VBA to bend Excel fully to the users will, and porting macros between the three was a major task.

With the Visual Basic Editor back under the Tools Macros menu, Excel for Mac matches the Window versions macro handling again.

Microsoft warns, however, that some VBA-dependent add-ons may still not work; and we did find macros ran slightly slower than in Excel 2004.

Excel for Mac previously felt rather bitty, with a stack of toolbars and a slew of floating palettes required to reach all its features.

The Ribbon does away with almost all of this; the Home tab, for example, shows most of the options previously found in the Formatting palette, without the hassle of finding somewhere on screen to keep it.

Although it will take some getting used to, its clearly more efficient.

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The Ribbons similarity to the Windows version is only skin deep though: it resembles Excel 2007 more than 2010, and many commands are still in different places and work in different ways.

Excel for Mac previously had limited facilities for handling data tables.

These have been much improved, with new filter and PivotTable options helping to make sense of your figures.

To create a PivotTable, you select PivotTable from the Data menu, much the same as in Excel 2008.

Excel 2010s more intuitive interface of having a PivotTable command under the Insert tab isnt supported, since Office 2011s Ribbon has no Insert tab and the equivalent commands arent in the Insert menu.

In place of the PivotTable toolbar, a new Ribbon tab now appears only when you create a PivotTable.

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