Cannot open an Excel spreadsheet

Hi All, I've been testing Numbers but was mostly disappointed at step 1. I simply wanted to open an existing Excel spreadsheet and I get the error;
"The document can’t be imported because it’s too large."
The spreadsheet is 55kb and contains 5 tabs(!!??) Ive tried deleting one tab at a time and re-opening in Numbers but I still get the same message.
I therefore decided to copy and paste each sheet into a Numbers work sheet. That worked fine except for the fact that the formulas are not copied over. As a final attempt I tried to save my spreadsheet in a different format from Excel but found that Numbers can only open a limited number of file types, i.e. no Lotus support. In desperation I decided to export the spreadsheet in CSV format from Excel but upon trying to open it in Numbers I get the same message as before;
"The document can’t be imported because it’s too large."
It looks like i'll be sticking with Excel for the foreseeable future. To me numbers looks like a beta product lacking in much functionality as many of you have already described. One could question if this should be a retail product at this stage.
I wish you all the best of luck with your Numbers experience.
Jason

I have yet to see that message, and I've asked it to open some 2MB+ multi-thousand-cell Excel sheets. Is your spreadsheet sharable? If so, I'd love to take a look at it -- I'm working on our review of Numbers now, and such things would be useful to see if I can figure out why it's breaking.
If you can share, please let me know via email; my work email address is my first initial and last name at the domain shown below.
Thanks!
Rob Griffiths
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