It has a programming aspect, Visual Basic for Applications, allowing the user to employ a wide variety of numerical methods, for example, for solving differential equations of mathematical physics, and then reporting the results back to the spreadsheet. It does this by simplifying large data sets via PivotTable fields. A PivotTable is a tool for data analysis. It allows sectioning of data to view its dependencies on various factors for different perspectives (using pivot tables and the scenario manager). In addition, it can display data as line graphs, histograms and charts, and with a very limited three-dimensional graphical display.

It has a battery of supplied functions to answer statistical, engineering, and financial needs. Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets, using a grid of cells arranged in numbered rows and letter-named columns to organize data manipulations like arithmetic operations.

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2.5 Export and migration of spreadsheets.

Choose the Keyboard viewer or the Emoji & Symbols floating window. Or Command + Control + Spacebar shortcut to open the Character Viewer. Go to Apple | System Preferences | Keyboard and check the option ‘Show Keyboard and Character viewers’. The equivalent on the Mac is the expanded keyboard setting. In Office for Windows, use the Windows Character Map or the Emoji Panel.

The fix for Macintosh users is the same as in Office for Windows … look to the operating system. The Keyboard Shortcut option is no help either, because it’s limited to making shortcuts from the symbols visible on the dialog. There’s no good reason for that omission, aside from Microsoft not bothering. The really useful Word Alt + X trick (which converts a Unicode number into a symbol) is NOT available in Word for Mac. If Word for Mac supported the full range of characters, the subset feature would let you jump to a group of characters.Įven if you know the ASCII or Unicode number for the character, you can’t type it in as you can in Office for Windows. The Word for Mac dialog only shows the first 228 characters in a font! That’s OK for an old-fashioned ASCII font but modern Unicode fonts can have over 100,000 characters! At least in Word for Windows you can scroll through the list.Īlso missing is the important ‘subset’ pull-down list. “ I cannot seem to access symbols not visible in the panel, … has Microsoft intentionally restricted the range of non-keyboard characters and symbols available on the Mac version of Word?“

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