The equivalent of Excel on a Mac is.Excel! You can simply subscribe to Microsoft's Office Suite to get full access to Excel on your Mac. They also offer a 30 day. Sep 9, 2017 - If you use Microsoft Excel on your Mac, you can save the spreadsheets you create and open them in Numbers, Apple's spreadsheet app.
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If part of your business involves the use of Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software, chances are you are familiar with the default colors used in the application. However, you are not limited to Excel's default colors. Excel has a swatch tool through which you can choose almost any imaginable color for the fonts, cells, borders and other colored elements in your company's spreadsheets. If you have existing palettes you'd rather use, Excel also has a color palette import tool through which you can load custom palettes saved on your Mac.
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Launch Excel on your Mac and create a new workbook or open an existing one.
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Click the 'Home' tab and click the downward-facing arrow located next to the Fill Color button under the Font heading. After that, click 'More Colors.'
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Click the palette settings icon located next to the Palette drop-down menu. The settings icon resembles a small mechanical gear.
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Browse to the palette file you want to import.
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Double-click the palette to import it into Excel.
Warning
- Information in this article applies to Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac. It may vary slightly or significantly with other versions or products.
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