Can't open Excel file with my Imac

Can someone help me with this one. I keep getting excel files from work but I have an Imac at home and unable to open and make changes

Purchasing MS Office for Mac is the probable the best choice, however if I could offer another option.
I have been using Open Office for Mac, it is an open source application and works with all MS Office files, best
of all it is free.
I have been using it for about a year now and I have not had any problems exchanging MS Office files.
    This is the screen shot of Open Office.Calc ( Excel )
    It may solve your problem and save you some cash.
     John

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Rafinha

Hi Rafinh,
Welcome to Numbers discussions.
Numbers will open Excel documents. Sometimes deleting the Numbers Preference file will do the trick. Close Numbers then delete the Numbers preference file: home > Library > Preferences, com.apple.iWork.Numbers.plist
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Cordially,
RicD

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I have some users in my company that can't open Excel files from any document libraries on SharePoint 2010. The receive the error message "An error occurred. Please try again."  We don't currently use the Excel calculations services. When
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I would make sure no one has open on machine / locked on machine (Would assume you checked this, but wanted to add)
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Make sure the version of excel is the same (Changing from 2010 back to 2007 affects the file, etc.. on convert) that no one converted and saved thus causing error in file.
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I can't open NEF files with PS Elements9 (Mac) and have just performed all avail. updates

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