[skinkestek]

Probably true if you’re an advanced user using a machine with American language pack.

Personally, I stick with LibreOffice. The biggest win? It doesn’t aggressively mangle my data by assuming everything is a U.S. date that needs “fixing.”

And don’t get me started on how Excel insists that, just because my employer gave me a Norwegian-language Mac, every formula should now be written in some half-baked, poorly documented pseudo-Norwegian formula language.

The one tool I do miss? Outlook.

[eisa01]

Just set your preferred UI language to English in System Settings - Language and Region and Excel will honor that

There's probably some similar system setting for the date format

[skinkestek]

> Just set your preferred UI language to English in System Settings – Language and Region and Excel will honor that

That might work - assuming IT policies don’t block it - but it could easily break a bunch of other things on my machine.

> There's probably a similar system setting for the date format

Maybe. But I’ve been a power user for 30 years (counting from my first full Windows restore), and I taught my first IT course in the late ’90s - so if there is an easy fix, I’m honestly kind of impressed with my own ability to miss it.