Dear respected CraigCB,
Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to help you.
As per your description, Excel is generally consistent across platforms, there might be some differences in terms of user interface, available features, and shortcut keys due to the differences between the macOS and iPad operating systems.
Excel on a Mac laptop and Excel on an iPad offer similar functionality like XLOOKUP, Tables, but there might be some differences in terms of user interface, features, and shortcut keys due to the platform. For example, in Excel for iPad we cannot add pivot table in the Excel for iPad version.
Shortcut keys might not be exactly the same between the Mac laptop and iPad versions of Excel. Shortcut keys can vary between the Mac and iPad versions of Excel. While many common keyboard shortcuts may remain consistent across platforms.
For your reference: Keyboard shortcuts in Excel
Appreciate your patience and understanding and thank you for your time and cooperation.
Sincerely,
Waqas Muhammad