Importing excel documents into Numbers problem

When I try to open .xls files in Numbers, I often get the message that the file is to large to translate.
Is there a solution to this? I don't want to buy Microsoft Office!
Message was edited by: downtoearth

In Numbers, a table is restricted to 256 column and 63536 rows.
The reported message is displayed becaue at least one of these limit is crossed.
The only workaround would be to ask the author to break the original tables in smaller ones matching the limits.
I didn't check if the free openOffice or neoOffice are able to open such huge tables.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 10 février 2010 23:35:36

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