Can I use RETScreen with Quattro Pro, or Lotus 123 or OpenOffice/Calc?
No, some of the Visual Basic programming in the macros may not be properly translated. • Can I use RETScreen with a Macintosh? The RETScreen Software does not work directly on Macintosh. However, you can use it on a Mac right now if you use the Parallels software, currently in the Mac OS X and later. We have many users using this successfully. RETScreen is not simply an Excel file, and in fact has close to 80,000 lines of code running it. We will look to eventually have a web-based version of RETScreen which will be platform independent. In the meantime, you can use Parallels. Installing RETScreen on a Mac: To use RETScreen on a Mac, you need a copy of Windows (XP, Vista or Windows 7) and Microsoft Excel for Windows installed on your system. This can be achieved by installing a virtual Windows desktop on your Mac. A virtual Windows desktop lets you open a Windows window on your Mac desktop and run PC programs. To install a virtual desktop and get RETScreen running on your Mac, follow t
