How to Make Excel the Default Spreadsheet App in Mac

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How to Make Excel the Default Spreadsheet App in Mac

In this thread: Set Excel as default instead of Numbers - Apple Community instructions were given to make excel the default spreadsheet on a Mac, even when opening a Numbers document. I'm finding that this doesn't work now. After going through all the steps, when opening a numbers doc, it opens in numbers, which I prefer not to use.

Right clicking on the doc and opening with excel doesn't work either. It's not an option and it's greyed out in the apps I can use for this purpose.

Does anyone have a fix?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Jun 24, 2022 12:59 AM

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dialabrain

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Jun 24, 2022 2:17 AM in response to nickcage49

FWIW, the thread you referred to does not say you can set Excel to open Numbers documents. It describes how to set Excel as the default for "spreadsheets", i.e. xls, xlsm, xlmx files. Excel cannot open Numbers files.

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