This article will show you how to add the Developer tab in the Windows version of Excel. These steps will only work for the Mac version of Excel. The steps in this article were performed on a MacBook Air in the High Sierra operating system. How to Add the Developer Tab to the Ribbon in Excel 2016 for Mac Our tutorial below will show you how to add the Developer tab in Excel for Mac so that you can gain access to the options that it includes. Excel 2016 for Mac, like all of the other more modern versions of the Excel application, employs a series of tabs at the top of the window that let you navigate through the various settings and tools in the program.īut there is one useful tab that isn’t included in the default set of tabs, and you might be looking for one of the items on that tab if you are trying to do something like create or run a macro.