The Connection Properties dialog has been streamlined as well to match Excel for Windows, so that you now only see the properties that apply to your particular data connection.Īll of your connection properties are in one place and just like Excel for Windows. The all-new Connection Manager in Excel 2016 for Mac.
All of your connections are displayed, and you can click any of them to see where they are used in your workbook and to perform any action. With Excel 2016 for Mac, you now have that same Connection Manager you are familiar with from Windows. It provides a central place to see all of the data connections in a workbook, see where they are used, and modify, remove or refresh each one individually.
One of the biggest improvements to working with external data connections in Excel for Windows in recent releases has been the Connection Manager. A better way to work with external data connections Looking for that Refresh button? It’s on the Data tab just as you’d expect. In addition, all of the ways in which you interact with external data are now consistent between the platforms.
If you want to connect to something other than SQL Server, we still have several great partners offering third-party drivers to connect to any data source you can imagine.Have a workbook with ODBC data connections you’ve been using on Windows and never been able to use on your Mac? Well, now you can with cross-platform compatibility.
That’s why you’ll notice an interface that’s consistent with what you’d expect when using Office 2016 for Windows, and why we added support for virtually all of the Windows Excel Ctrl keyboard shortcuts. These days we all live and work in a multi-device, multi-platform world, and so when building Office 2016 for Mac, one of our key objectives was to make it as easy as possible to transition from using Office for Windows to using Office for Mac and back again.