Is there any way to open an .xlsb file in numbers?

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Is there any way to open an .xlsb file in numbers?

Our ad department has recently upgraded their windows PCs, and it seems the new default for Excel to save is .xlsb (excel binary workbook). Is there any way to open this in Numbers, or is my only answer to go over to them again and again, to get them to resave in .xls or .xlsx?

imac 2.66 Intel Core 2 duo, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Apr 1, 2010 9:15 AM

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KOENIG Yvan

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Apr 1, 2010 9:24 AM in response to jamilKC

jamilKC wrote:
Our ad department has recently upgraded their windows PCs, and it seems the new default for Excel to save is .xlsb (excel binary workbook). Is there any way to open this in Numbers, or is my only answer to go over to them again and again, to get them to resave in .xls or .xlsx?

Ask them to resave as .xls 😉

If they are polite enough, I'm quite sure that they may change their default format to .xls.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 1 avril 2010 18:24:03

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jamilKC Author

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Apr 1, 2010 10:54 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Thanks, Yvan.

I go through a week or two with everything coming to me fine, and then it starts with the .xlsb again.
I don't know if there's an easy way to reset their defaults (I am not a PC ). It's not a big problem getting them to resend -- I was just wondering if I was missing something in Numbers to allow me to open these files.

Thanks again

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