Donot Haveone
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Q: open vs copy spreadsheet in ios numbers app

I set up several excel spreadsheets to transfer to the Numbers iOS app via iTunes.  Numbers offers no options to 'open' the files, whether their file type is from Numbers or Excel.  But....I can 'copy' them.

 

Is 'copy' the newly obscured word for 'open' in the app?  e.g., do I have to 'copy' a spreadsheet to open it?

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jan 9, 2016 12:39 PM

by t quinn,Solvedanswer
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A:

Hi Donot,

 

'copy' is what you will be doing. When you keep files in icloud you would be opening the file and it would be kept synced across your devices. I like to keep my spreadsheets local so I am copying them back and forth with iTunes. When I want to send a file back to my Mac, I overwrite the file in iTunes and then save it from there to my Mac, overwriting the file there. Changes made on the Mac get loaded into iTunes, overwriting that file and before I copy it to iOS I delete the original or I will have Numbers Document and Numbers Document 2 on the iPod. A bit of a hassle but the price you pay for giving up the 'seamless' iCloud experience.

 

quinn

Posted on Jan 9, 2016 2:38 PM

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  • by t quinn,Solvedanswer

    t quinn t quinn Jan 9, 2016 2:38 PM in response to Donot Haveone
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    Jan 9, 2016 2:38 PM in response to Donot Haveone

    Hi Donot,

     

    'copy' is what you will be doing. When you keep files in icloud you would be opening the file and it would be kept synced across your devices. I like to keep my spreadsheets local so I am copying them back and forth with iTunes. When I want to send a file back to my Mac, I overwrite the file in iTunes and then save it from there to my Mac, overwriting the file there. Changes made on the Mac get loaded into iTunes, overwriting that file and before I copy it to iOS I delete the original or I will have Numbers Document and Numbers Document 2 on the iPod. A bit of a hassle but the price you pay for giving up the 'seamless' iCloud experience.

     

    quinn

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    Donot Haveone Donot Haveone Jan 9, 2016 8:59 PM in response to t quinn
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    Jan 9, 2016 8:59 PM in response to t quinn

    Another simple thing made complicated, but at least it is clearer now from your explanation.

     

    Took quite a while to discover my data was even there because going to the '+' to 'create new spreadsheet' does not seem like a reasonable path to simply opening and viewing files loaded onto the machine.