PaulMJohnson, “Is Excel finally multi-threaded? For some of the massive spreadsheets I’m forced to use, it’s significantly faster to launch Windows in Parallels and use Excel for Windows than it is to use the native Mac Excel.”
No Paul, it’s not.
I’m using the 2016 Microsoft Office for Mac Beta for the sole feature that I expected to be in the 2011 version, Microsoft has not figured out how to use all of the cores in my Core i7 MacBook Pro & iMac. Maybe when this is out of beta later this year it will support everything but right now, Excel is using 190% of my CPU power (aka 2 CPUs) which is an increase from the 1 CPU it supported in 2011 but I have 4 physical cores and 4 virtual cores and I was hoping for some relief.
As Paul says, it truly is faster to boot into Parallels and use Excel there. I’m working with a 99.5 megabyte Excel file right now and my 2 cores are maxed out trying to process a simple filter command. It’s insane. I won’t pay money for this upgrade unless it actually leads to a performance boost.
Ridiculous.