Can I force a conversion of a downloaded file to open to Excel?

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Can I force a conversion of a downloaded file to open to Excel?

I recently purchased an online course to learn Excel for possible job opportunities. After beginning the course, I found that when the course director sent me a file to download to practice what I had just learned, OS X converts the file to Numbers, and a Numbers spreadsheet opens up, rather than the Excel spreadsheet that was sent. Is there any way to force the file to open to what was sent rather than numbers?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Mar 3, 2015 10:12 AM

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Niel

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Mar 3, 2015 10:14 AM in response to lorrainefrombluffton

If you have Excel installed, drag the document to the Excel icon in the Dock or open it from within Excel. If not, no.

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Kappy

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Mar 3, 2015 10:40 AM in response to lorrainefrombluffton

Select any one of these files. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. In the Open With panel select Excel as the default application to open the file, then click on the Change All button.

All Excel spreadsheet files should have the extension, ".xls" or ".xlsx." Be sure yours have that extension or add it if they don't.

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