(I personally prefer Excel, possibly because I’ve been using it for nearly 30 years). The one to use is really a personal choice, and that decision is not the focus of this article. As a Mac user, you’ve got plenty of choices among spreadsheet apps, but for most of us the choice comes down to three: Microsoft’s Excel 2011 Apple’s Numbers (version 3.2) and the browser-based Sheets section of Google Docs. If your job (or even your personal life) requires you to do anything substantial with numbers, chances are you use a spreadsheet app to do it.