My MS Excel 2008 has stopped working. Can edit but will not save a file. Can someone tell me if MS Excel 2008 is no longer compatible with MACOs 10.13 High Sierra? Thank you!
Glen Gill
iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015), macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)
Hi Glen,
Depending on what you are doing you shouldn't have too much trouble switching to Numbers, which is a powerful and pleasant environment for personal and some business projects (but not so good for large datasets). Numbers can open (and convert) most Excel documents, and the functions it has in common with Excel work the same way. Numbers doesn't, however, support most "array" functions, so (fairly simple) workarounds are needed that people in this discussion are good at providing. Also Bear in mind that Numbers treats dates and time differently from Excel, introducing a "duration" data format and related functions that Excel does not have.
Numbers has a table-centric design. Unlike Excel, where typically have large expanses of cells in a sheet separated by blank areas, in Numbers it's easy to break your work up into multiple small tables on the same sheet. You'll probably want to modify the format of some of your Excel documents to take advantage of the Numbers design. See the built-in templates at File > New in your menu for good examples of how to organize projects in Numbers.
SG
Thank you. I figured as much. Actually, I am going to try Mac Numbers and just move over the spreadsheets. It seems fairly easy to do.
Thank for your reply.
Glen Gill
This is a user-to-user support area for Numbers (an Apple product) not for Microsoft Excel. So you might try posting on one of the many Excel forums, including this one.
In general my advice would be to avoid using 10-year-old software. It's more trouble than it's worth. The current version of Excel for the Mac (an excellent app) is available at a reasonable price.
SG
Is Microsoft Excel 2008 compatible with Max OS 10.13 High Sierra?
