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Microsoft Excel has been working great for both Windows and Mac. Over the years, Microsoft has updated Excel for Mac so it would be (almost) comparable to its Windows version. Ideally, you have to use Excel for Windows if you’re a power user. In this article, you’ll learn some of the differences between Excel for Mac and Excel for Windows. Excel 2016 for Mac brings lots of welcome improvements to the workhorse spreadsheet but also leaves out useful tools. Moving to the cloud: Like the other apps in the latest Mac Office suite.

To see how your add-in will run in Office on iOS, you can sideload your add-in's manifest onto an iPad using iTunes, or sideload your add-in's manifest directly in Office on Mac. This action won't enable you to set breakpoints and debug your add-in's code while it's running, but you can see how it behaves and verify that the UI is usable and rendering appropriately.

Prerequisites for Office on iOS

  • A Windows or Mac computer with iTunes installed.

    Important

    If you're running macOS Catalina, iTunes is no longer available so you should follow the instructions in the section Sideload an add-in on Excel or Word on iPad using macOS Catalina later in this article.

  • An iPad running iOS 8.2 or later with Excel or Word installed, and a sync cable.

  • The manifest .xml file for the add-in you want to test.

Prerequisites for Office on Mac

  • A Mac running OS X v10.10 'Yosemite' or later with Office on Mac installed.

  • Word on Mac version 15.18 (160109).

  • Excel on Mac version 15.19 (160206).

  • PowerPoint on Mac version 15.24 (160614)

  • The manifest .xml file for the add-in you want to test.

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Sideload an add-in on Excel or Word on iPad using iTunes

  1. Use a sync cable to connect your iPad to your computer. Download silverlight for netflix. If you're connecting the iPad to your computer for the first time, you'll be prompted with Trust This Computer?. Choose Trust to continue.

  2. In iTunes, choose the iPad icon below the menu bar.

  3. Under Settings on the left side of iTunes, choose Apps.

  4. On the right side of iTunes, scroll down to File Sharing, and then choose Excel or Word in the Add-ins column.

  5. At the bottom of the Excel or Word Documents column, choose Add File, and then select the manifest .xml file of the add-in you want to sideload.

  6. Open the Excel or Word app on your iPad. If the Excel or Word app is already running, choose the Home button, and then close and restart the app.

  7. Open a document.

  8. Choose Add-ins on the Insert tab. (On the Insert tab, you may need to scroll horizontally until you see the Add-ins button.) Your sideloaded add-in is available to insert under the Developer heading in the Add-ins UI.

Sideload an add-in on Excel or Word on iPad using macOS Catalina

Important

With the introduction of macOS Catalina, Apple discontinued iTunes on Mac and integrated functionality required to sideload apps into Finder.

  1. Use a sync cable to connect your iPad to your computer. If you're connecting the iPad to your computer for the first time, you'll be prompted with Trust This Computer?. Choose Trust to continue. You may also be asked if this is a new iPad or if you're restoring one.

  2. In Finder, under Locations, choose the iPad icon below the menu bar. Mac all in one for dummies.

  3. On the top of the Finder window, click on Files, and then locate Excel or Word.

  4. From a different Finder window, drag and drop the manifest.xml file of the add-in you want to side load onto the Excel or Word file in the first Finder window.

  5. Open the Excel or Word app on your iPad. If the Excel or Word app is already running, choose the Home button, and then close and restart the app.

  6. Open a document.

  7. Choose Add-ins on the Insert tab. (On the Insert tab, you may need to scroll horizontally until you see the Add-ins button.) Your sideloaded add-in is available to insert under the Developer heading in the Add-ins UI.

Sideload an add-in in Office on Mac

Note

To sideload an Outlook add-in on Mac, see Sideload Outlook add-ins for testing.

  1. Open Terminal and go to one of the following folders where you'll save your add-in's manifest file. If the wef folder doesn't exist on your computer, create it.

    • For Word: /Users/<username>/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Documents/wef
    • For Excel: /Users/<username>/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Excel/Data/Documents/wef
    • For PowerPoint: /Users/<username>/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Powerpoint/Data/Documents/wef
  2. Open the folder in Finder using the command open . (including the period or dot). Copy your add-in's manifest file to this folder.

  3. Apple ем for mac os. Open Word, and then open a document. Restart Word if it's already running.

  4. In Word, choose Insert > Add-ins > My Add-ins (drop-down menu), and then choose your add-in.

    Important

    Sideloaded add-ins will not show up in the My Add-ins dialog box. They are only visible within the drop-down menu (small down-arrow to the right of My Add-ins on the Insert tab). Sideloaded add-ins are listed under the Developer Add-ins heading in this menu.

  5. Verify that your add-in is displayed in Word.

Remove a sideloaded add-in

You can remove a previously sideloaded add-in by clearing the Office cache on your computer. Details on how to clear the cache for each platform and application can be found in the article Clear the Office cache.

See also

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Excel For Apple Mac

To set the print area in Excel for Mac OS X, you need toenable the Set Print Area button, which is not present on thestandard toolbar:

  1. From the View menu, select Toolbars, thenCustomize Toolbars/Menus.. (Excel 2004 or 2008) orCustomize.. (Excel v.X).
  2. In the Customize Toolbars/Menus (Excel 2004 or 2008)or Customize (Excel v.X) window, click theCommands tab. In the 'Categories:' section, clickFile.
  3. In the 'Commands:' section, click the Set Print Areabutton. This looks like a printer with two lines intersecting in theupper left corner of the button.
  4. Drag the button to the existing toolbar.
  5. Click OK. The button should now appear on your toolbarwhere you placed it.

Excel Mac Solver

To print a specific area of your spreadsheet, select that area withyour cursor, and then click the Set Print Area button. Nowwhen you print, only the area that you selected will print.