Excel spreadsheets and Numbers

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Excel spreadsheets and Numbers

I have opened many EXCEL spreadsheets using NUMBERS with great success but recently I am being presented with something that looks like this:

Any idea what's causing this?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 3:51 PM

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SGIII

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Oct 9, 2018 9:42 AM in response to Dave_K

That looks like HTML. Are you sure you're not trying to open a file that is not an Excel document?

Do your other Excel documents open as you expect?

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Dave_K Author

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Oct 9, 2018 9:43 AM in response to SGIII

They sure do. And that may be the issue. The website from which I attempt the download simply has an icon that indicates a download to XLS. Thanks.

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VikingOSX

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Oct 9, 2018 10:02 AM in response to SGIII

In fact, there are Microsoft Office (mso-displayed-decimal-separator) resources used in it that suggest it was an MS Excel file saved, or exported to HTML.

Microsoft has added even more features to Excel 2019 that will stress Number's Excel 2013 partial compatibility to the test when opening these newer documents.

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Dave_K Author

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Oct 9, 2018 10:03 AM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks. Good info.

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SGIII

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Oct 9, 2018 10:56 AM in response to Dave_K

What extension does your downloaded file have?

If you have Excel then you can open the downloaded file in Excel and Save As (hold down option key and choose File > Save As ... from the menu) and choose a standard format .xlsx or .xls format that Numbers is more like to be able to open.

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