I bought a new Mac Book Pro and when moving my Numbers and Pages files to the new computer it will not allow me to open the files until I update them to Numbers 09 first. On my iMac I was running Numbers 08. Any suggestions how to tackle this issue?
Thanks,
iPhone 5, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Hi onnygirl,
Numbers 3 will not open Numbers '08 documents.
On your iMac, open and then export your Numbers '08 documents to Excel.
Transfer the Excel documents to your MacBook and they will open in Numbers 3.
Numbers is not an Excel clone, so there will be some glitches 😉.
Regards,
Ian.
Thank you I will try it. My ultimate goal was to get these files to Excel as I prefer that program, but didn't want to lose years of work. I will let you know if I get stuck. Thanks again
Hi onnygirl,
There are many users in this forum who can help you with Numbers/Excel glitches. The main glitch is that each Numbers object (table, graph, text box, shape) may appear on a separate sheet in Excel.
Please call back with problems.
Regards,
Ian.
Old iMac numbers 08, new Mac Book pro won't let me open numbers without converting to Numbers 09
