These tools, together with the possibility to graphically represent the information stored, make it one of the most useful applications in all sorts of contexts, especially if you have to generate reports. Its functions make this information easier to handle and more flexible, simplifying their processing by means of organizing them into spreadsheets. Year after year, and version after version (2007, 2010, 2013, 2016.), this program offers us everything we need to work with large volumes of numerical or text data.
The most complete software to work with large volumes of data and to automate certain processes and calculations. Compatible with the file formats XLS, XML, and CSV, among others.
The version for Mac of this program comes along with features and functions that are identical to those of the PC version. Microsoft Excel is the king of spreadsheets, no doubt about it, and on all possible operating systems: Windows, Android, iOS or even macOS.
Who cares about the alternatives offered such as OpenOffice, LibreOffice or Google Docs with their Calc, Sheets, and others. If you'd rather only run monthly replace 0 14 * * 3 with 0 14 1 * *, but there's no real reason to.If we talk about spreadsheets, we definitely need to mention the program par excellence designed to deal with them within Microsoft Office. It won't run if your laptop's off though (solutions here) although it only needs to run once every few attempts.
To schedule with crontab type sudo crontab -e in Terminal (or iTerm etc), press i, and enter the following to run this every Wednesday at 2pm: # min hour day_of_month month day_of_week commandĠ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"ġ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist"Ģ 14 * * 3 sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist"Īpple recommends another way to schedule on MacOS. Another thread suggests it is run after missing 3 updates. If so these commands will need running every 90 days. One thread suggests the nag is run after 90 days without an update. Ppowerpoint: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Powerpoint.app/Contents/ist" Word: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app/Contents/ist"Įxcel: sudo /usr/bin/touch -mt $(date "+%Y%m%d0001") "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app/Contents/ist" This seems to have worked for me - extracted this from the ResetUpdateMessage script on William's answer.