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. Connections made to SQL Server in Excel 2016 for Mac will work in Excel for Windows and vice versa.When creating or refreshing data connections to SQL Server, there are no third-party drivers required-everything you need is included right in the app.This means several great things for anyone who works with external data: Native support for ODBC data connectionsĮxcel 2016 for Mac supports ODBC data connections with SQL Server and Azure SQL Database right out of the box. Let’s take a deep dive into how each of these improvements can help you. Excel 2016 for Mac has a brand new Microsoft Query (MSQuery) and Connection Manager to make creating and managing all of your data connections easier and more consistent with Windows.Excel 2016 for Mac comes with a pre-installed and integrated SQL Server ODBC driver, which we worked hand-in-hand with Simba Technologies to provide.We examined how we could improve external data for Excel 2016 for Mac and made the following changes: So when it came to working with external data, we applied that same logic: how can we make the experience great and working cross platform easier than ever? External data in Excel 2016 for Mac 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.
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