I use excel at work. Should I use Numbers or buy Office for Mac?

I use simple spreadsheets that I change the values in daily.  My main concern is compatibility.  I use a Macbook Air mid 2013. 

Hi sapper,
Exporting from Numbers to Excel is OK if you have a single table with no bells and whistles. That is the same as sending your accountant a plain text or CSV file. However, if you want to use the power of Numbers to do some processing and layout...
Here is a "simple" Numbers document. Two tables and two charts (graphs) on one Sheet:
Now export to Excel then import back into Numbers:
Now 4 sheets.
Now repeat (export to Excel, then import back into Numbers:
Now 4 sheets with longer names.
And if your Excel recipient made changes, wouldn't that be a nightmare?
Stick to a single table (that becomes a single Worksheet in Excel) and you can get away with it. Anything else, good luck.
Regards,
Ian.

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