After adding OneDrive to Number (and Pages) as a source for documents, when attempting to open a file there, Numbers pops up an error claiming OneDrive had a failure to launch.
I opened the OneDrive app and all is well there, but it just won't work with Numbers or any of the iWork apps.
iPad Pro Wi-Fi, iOS 9.2.1
OneDrive is a Microsoft product and does not have a viewer to render or display Numbers files
It may help if you export to Excel and then upload that to OneDrive
iCloud has the native Numbers app embedded as you know
Thanks for the feedback.
Here's what I want to do. I have a spreadsheet that is in my OneDrive cloud, I want to open it in Numbers. Supposedly from Numbers on iOS device, you can open a file on OneDrive. And.I have configured it to be able to do that. But when you select OneDrive as the source location, Numbers pops up an error that says the OneDrive Launcher failed to launch. And that is as far as you can get.
It is supposed to work, it doesn't.
LloydP wrote:
Thanks for the feedback.
Here's what I want to do. I have a spreadsheet that is in my OneDrive cloud, I want to open it in Numbers.
Which format is that in? Numbers?
The file is from excel and. Is in that format. But that doesn't matter because Numbers will open that file just fine.
I Found a work-around by emailing the file from Excel then taking that file and sending it to Numbers. Works fine and file opens and works fine too.
You are getting hung up about the file itself, that isn't the problem at all. The problem is that the OneDrive plugin for Numbers is not working at all and won't launch so you can even see the file names. It would do the exact same thing if I manually created a Numbers spreadsheet and copied it directly to OneDrive. From Numbers I'd never get to see that file in OneDrive.
Lloyd, this is not what you asked for but maybe it will help. Don't know why OneDrive is not working for you but I use Google Drive, very similar to OneDrive, and it works great. I have a bunch of Excel Spreadsheets uploaded from my PC to Google Drive and I can open them in Numbers in my iPad with no issues. The spreadsheets open everywhere, iPad (Numbers), iPhone (Numbers), MacBook (Numbers) and of course any MS device with Office installed. Google Drive is free from the App Store (15 GBs), something to consider.
Thanks. I have 1Tb of GoogleDrive space as I also own a Pixel Chromebook.
I'll check that out to see how well it will work for me. Would be easier if I could pick a file from wherever while in Numbers.
With OneDrive, if I have a .numbers file already there I can send it to Numbers directly from the OneDrive app. I suspect that will be the way it works from GoogleDrive app also. I'll try that out shortly.
thanks
My pleasure.... and yes you can open Numbers, select Google Drive from the dropdown menu on the left (look for the +) and open any file directly from Google Drive that is compatible with Numbers, i.e., Excel or Numbers files. You can also open the Google Drive App in your iPad and send a copy from there.
Thanks to those that responded.
I added GoogleDrive and it didn't work any better. So I was irritated, did a reset on the iPad, still no joy. So I closed every app I had running and then reset it again.
Voila`. Now all works just like it is supposed to. I can open directly from GD and OD from within Numbers.
iPad numbers won't open from OneDrive
