Does anybody know if the Numbers App for the iPad will export to a MS Excel format (xls or xlsx)? Need to be able to collaborate on Excel and MS Word documents with PC users so PDF is not adequate.
I have already made the suggestion at the site you linked and suggest that everyone else on this thread do the same. Perhaps if enough of us provide the feedback Apple will update the app.
As a work around (before I purchase) can you export to iWork.com or email to yourself, open in Number on a Mac and then export as an xls? Clearly this, like the inability to sync with iDisk is something that has to be fixed to make this a worthwhile product......
Yes, the desktop version can convert to excel files, albeit in a different format than it looks on the numbers program. Each table becomes it's own sheet. So it's not a direct conversion between them.
Ughh! This is bad news! I was going to use Excel compatibility as the foundation of convincing my wife that I NEED to have an iPad. Here is hoping Apple takes care of this in the future. My next computer will be an Apple, but that is still a few years away.
If you are trying to use the iPad as a laptop replacement, especially a PC laptop, you are going to severely disappointed. The iPad does a decent job importing from dropbox or whatever, but don't plan on uploading it back and being able to go back and forth. The iPad, as it stands now, is not capable of replacing your laptop. It is in fact a large iPod touch with some additional features and a more capable web browser. I created a pretty nice keynote from a PowerPoint I imported, and I actually like it better. However, when I export to PDF, it gets screwed up because it doesn't recognize the font? Anyway, I love my iPad, but I use it to email, maintain my calendar and contacts, surf the web, and create some basic stuf on pages and keynote. Numbers I haven't used much.
Anyway, don't get an iPad and plan on editing documents. You can certainly create them though. If you want something that you can present on and enjoy your media, and read files, PDFs, web, books, etc... It's great.
The only workaround I've found is copying the worksheet from Numbers on the iPad to Pages. Export the Pages document as a Word doc, open in Word and cut and paste back into Excel.
I am extremely annoyed as i do a lot of electronic order forms and i bought an Ipad on the promise from all of the apple staff that i talked to that a numers doc could be opened on an excel spread sheet, which is the main reason i bought an ipad, however it will not open! this is a massive stuff up on the apple staff and i a massive inconvenience!!!if anyone knows of a converter can you let me know!!! tj.hogan1@gmail.com
i tried this but pages keeps saying that the spread sheet is to large to copy, however the spread sheet is only approx 35x40 coulombs with only a basic sum function. Is this pages and number not working together or my own noobness with using apple products?
same here!!! I had naturally assumed the doc. I was working on in Ipad numbers on during a recent flight would be 'exportable' back out to excel to share with colleagues. Imagine how bummed out I was to find out there was nothing I could do with the file once finished...
for Apple that has gotten us used to such elegant software, that seems a bit ... antiquated. to say nothing of the fact that I personally have not found a way to export or copy any Numbers spreadsheet into pages on ipad
