Excel - forumla font size increase

Yeah! And while you're at it, fix the spill chucker on Apple Support Communities to catch spelling errors like "forumla"!

Hi Hope,

How does the size of the formula font in MS Excel compare with the formula font size in LibreOffice and in Numbers?

If they are all the same—"so small you can hardly pick up a character"—this may indeed be an Apple issue. If they differ, and especially if the font size in LibreOffice—designed to closely resemble MS Office applications—is significantly more readable, then it's more likely an Excel issue, and your question should be directed to the Excel for Mac users in the Office/Excel section of the Microsoft Community web pages.

That said, user control of the type size in the Formula Editor in Numbers is not a supported feature, and there are times when I wish it were. It's presence/absence there is controlled by Apple, and seems an issue worth Providing Numbers Feedback on via that menu item in the Numbers menu.

Regards,

Barry

this is not Apples issue to solve, it is Microsofts'. Excel is their program, they are responsible for these issues with it.

Please go to the following website where it gives you instructions for giving MS Office feedback

https://tinyurl.com/MacOfficeFeedback

Jason

I don't see how to change the size of the font in the Excel formula bar (but maybe there is and I'm not seeing it). It is unaffected by zoom or the default font for cells. But, in Excel, if you are editing in a cell, the font is the size of the font in the cell, including any applied zoom. In Numbers, editing is done in the formula editor pop up (or whatever its actual name is) and the size is the size Apple makes it regardless of zoom or anything else.

What irks me more is I wish we could set "show formula as text" as the default or turn off all that "helpful" stuff Numbers does when trying to create and edit formulas. All that helpful stuff may be great for simple formulas but 99 out of 100 times it makes creation and editing of complex formulas very difficult and error prone as it adds parentheses and commas and addition operators where they don't belong. And it prevents you from typing certain things as it tried to be so smart and second guess you. I can turn it off each time but that is one extra step for every formula to be edited.

I'd suggest using both the 'feedback' button and the Answers — Excel link on the page linked in Jason's post; the first to send feedback directly to Microsoft, the second to repeat the question you posted here to the Excel section of the Microsoft Community.

Regards,

Barry