converting excel to numbers on icloud

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converting excel to numbers on icloud

I have a spreadsheet in excel on my mac. I put it in mu cloud drive, and want to open it in numbers, or even pages if I need, but I can't access it. It shows up on my cloud drive, but I can't access it. I even tried to email it to myself, but now, I can't even open the attachment. The only options I am getting now that I put the icloud drive on my phone/ipad are to save it to dropbox, google drive, icloud, etc...or send it out again by email or message, etc.

Please help! I'm very technologically challenged!

Thanks a ton in advance!

iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Dec 23, 2015 6:43 PM

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Answer 1

SGIII

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Dec 24, 2015 3:33 PM in response to Applw

Applw wrote:

I have a spreadsheet in excel on my mac. I put it in mu cloud drive, and want to open it in numbers, or even pages if I need, but I can't access it. It shows up on my cloud drive, but I can't access it.

Here are two ways.

First way: In Finder control-click the document and choose Open With... then Numbers.app (3.6.1):

Second way: In Numbers, choose File > Open from the menu and choose the Numbers document in iCloud Drive:

These two approaches work with most apps on your Mac, not just Numbers. Good luck!

SG

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SGIII

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Dec 24, 2015 5:01 PM in response to Applw

And in iOS I just go to iCloud Drive app, tap the Excel .xlsx spreadsheet, and tap 'Import a Copy' when prompted.

SG

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