I have a workbook that was handed down to me that I have been using in Excel 2008 for Mac. Very simple. 4 pages, no fancy functions. I have it saved in DropBox as a .xls file. Every time I try to open it in Numbers, it crashes. I'm using Mavericks. What can I do? Thanks in advance!
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Have you tried dragging savng the xls file to a folder on your Mac that is not in Dropbox, and then opening from that location? Dropbox does not always play nicely with Numbers.
SG
Have you tried dragging savng the xls file to a folder on your Mac that is not in Dropbox, and then opening from that location? Dropbox does not always play nicely with Numbers.
SG
Thanks SG for the suggestion. I just tried it but it didn't work. I even tried changing the handle to .numbers and that didn't do it. Is there something I could convert it to on a different computer that may allow me to open it in Numbers?
I don't have Excel 2008 for Mac any more but Excel for Mac 2011 gives these options (and more) when choosing File > Save As in the menu:
What format are you choosing when you save your file outside of Dropbox? In Excel you should be able to File > Save As and choose either .xls or .xlsx. Then In Numbers you should be able to File > Open and choose the .xls or .xlsx file that you saved. (As you say, changing the file extension to .numbers will not help.)
SG
Numbers crashes when I try to open .xls
