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The language used in Excel for Mac defaults to your macOS language setting. For the most part, this is not a problem… except that the function names are also translated to that language .
Imagine that you’re coding in Java and your OS is in French. Then to sort a Collection, instead of calling Collections.sort() , Java expects you to call Collections.trier(). This one hypothetical example might sound simple, but it becomes annoying very quickly for people who’ve learned Excel in English… which is probably 99% of Excel users out there.