To run the Excel client on Mac using a virtual machine (VM):
- Prepare the VM machine.
- Download a prepared VM from the Microsoft website: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/mac/
- Unzip it using Unarchiver, as suggested by Microsoft. (With another tool you may get incorrect results.) If you download the VM in a ZIP file for VMWare, you should have 3 files.
- Start Fusion.
- Import the existing VM: navigate to the *.OVF file, that is one of the 3 in the unzipped folder.
- In the running Windows 10 instance install:
- MS Excel (You can use Office 2016, there is no need to register it.)