Numbers and Excel

Hello,
New apple user here... I was assured at the Apple store that the iWork and Office programs (e.g., numbers=excel, pages=word) were compatible and that I could use the iWork package to work from home.
Well, here we are at crunch time, and I cannot even open any of the files that have been emailed by my office (excel and word documents -- and the help desk is not open). Can anyone tell me how to open these files, or was I naive in believing the sales person that these packages are compatible???
Also, from reviewing the discussion boards, it appears I'm going to have trouble sending these documents back to the office via email. Is that true, too?
Any insight is very appreciated!
Thanks, MdL

first, there is a size limit on what you can open in numbers from excel. And I believe it is based on your computers installed memory.
Second, yes you can email the files back. but you might need to view it in excel to delete one or more "index" pages. Since numbers can contain multiple "tables" per "sheet". Excel can only work with 1 table per sheet. So numbers will take any additional tables and make them their own standalone sheets in excel.
these new sheets are listed in a table of contents type page (there are ways of telling it not to produce this page, search on here for it).
The salesperson should have asked more detailed questions. I would never have told you to completely abandon Excel until after you had tested numbers to see if it would do what you wanted it to do. Numbers is NOT meant to be a complete excel replacement. It is NOT meant to be corporate level productivity. Its is meant to be "The spreadsheet for the rest of us" (Steve Jobs, August 2007).
hope this helps even a little bit,
Jason
I can never find the page I am looking for. I never quite enter the right query words in the search box. If anyone else has the size limitation technical article page, please post the link for me... I will keep looking for it.
Thanks for helping guys/Gals,
Jason

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