Converting Excel formulas to use in Numbers

I want to use an Excel 2010 spreadsheet in Numbers on my iPad.
When added and opened with Numbers, some formulas are not copied, only the values... How can I keep / convert all the the formulas ?

Hello pjl123, and thanks for helping
Only some formulas are not converted. It's a bit long to find all of them, because there seem to be a lot of small triangles with exclamation points in the converted Numbers file.
I'm not sure about the way I should save the file, since I presently use Excel 2010 normally (.xls format)
The reason I'm asking for help on this, is that I want to get rid of my M/S windows laptop in favour of an Apple, and I have a lot of excel files that would require a lot of work to redo in numbers....
If anyone knows how to save an excel file in a format more compatible with numbers, I would be very grateful.

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