How to open an excel file on my ipad from dropbox

You are asking about Numbers for iOS in a forum dedicated to Numbers for OS X.

As most of us aren’t using this app, it would be more efficient to ask in the dedicated forum (link below).

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 26 décembre 2011 12:03:51

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

My iDisk is : http://public.me.com/koenigyvan

Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community

For iWork's applications dedicated to iOS, go to :

https://discussions.apple.com/community/app_store/iwork_for_ios

You need Dropbox installed on both your iPad and your source (iMac, Laptop, PC, etc.).

As the name implies, you drop the Excel file into your dropbox on your source and then open Dropbox on your iPad/iPhone. You will find your Excel file there. Select it, then when it previews in Dropbox, tap the "open in" icon that looks like a box with an arrow pointing outward in the upper right corner of Dropbox. If you have iOS Numbers installed on your iPad/iPhone, you will see an option to open in Numbers. Select that option and the Excel file will opoen in Numbers.

Good luck