Numbers suitable for xls files?

Is it possible to import Excel files in Numbers and subsequently work on them?
If not, which app should I use?

Numbers can import Excel spreadsheets, though Numbers for iPad cannot handle all the formulas and formatting Excel can. There is an FAQ page here that you should look over before deciding:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4067
There are other apps that can import and edit Excel spreadsheets. Documents To Go from Dataviz is one that is commonly recommended, and you may find others if you search the iPad forums for "Excel".
Regards.

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I want to open excel spread sheets make additions and export back to pc users. Is numbers suitable for this activity?

I want to open excel spread sheets make additions and export back to pc users. Is numbers suitable for this activity? I am using a MACBook Air

just read this in an other answer:
Pages can open docx files, Numbers can open xlsx files. Each can export to can export .doc or .xls to the newest Word or Excel format.respectvely, but not to the more recent .docx or .xlsx.
Translation is not perfect in either direction. Numbers and Excel handle some similar features (eg. pop-up menus vs data validation) differently, and the translator cannot translate from one implementation to the other.
If much of your work is going to be transferred between your machine and Windows machines running either MS Excel or MS Word, with editing taking place at both ends of the tunnel, then you'll probably be better off with Office, or one of the Office clones on the Mac end.

Numbers not opening .xls files (same with pages...)

hi,
just got my new imac and i've been searching for information as to why i can't open .xls or .doc files in iwork. everything is up to date. it worked on my old mac. any suggestions? i tried renaming the extensions to .numbers or .pages and still won't open.
thanks,
susan

If you are trying to open them by double-clicking on the document, then select one of the documents. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. In the Open With panel select Pages from the dropdown menu then click on the Change All button. Repeat for .xls files except choose Numbers.
Or open the files from within Numbers or Pages using the File menu in the program. Then save the file as a Numbers or Pages document using Save As (hold down the OPTION key and select Save As in the File menu.

"Cannot interpret data in file" error while using GUI_UPLOAD for .xls file

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Here is my code. I had tried using different combination for HAS_FIELD_SEPARATOR but still its not working.
In my emp1.xls file , the data in each column is present in the same order as in the internal table. Although the first column in my internal table is NUMC. I dont know if that is causing the problem.
REPORT ZUPLOAD_1.
data: itab TYPE TABLE OF zempl_master WITH HEADER LINE.
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_UPLOAD'
EXPORTING
 FILENAME = 'C:\empl1.xls'
 FILETYPE = 'ASC'
 HAS_FIELD_SEPARATOR = 'X'
* HEADER_LENGTH = 0
* READ_BY_LINE = 'X'
* DAT_MODE = ' '
* CODEPAGE = ' '
* IGNORE_CERR = ABAP_TRUE
* REPLACEMENT = '#'
* CHECK_BOM = ' '
* VIRUS_SCAN_PROFILE =
* NO_AUTH_CHECK = ' '
* IMPORTING
* FILELENGTH =
* HEADER =
TABLES
 DATA_TAB = itab.
* EXCEPTIONS
* FILE_OPEN_ERROR = 1
* FILE_READ_ERROR = 2
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hi amber22 you need to use the below fm to upload an xls file
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 FILENAME = FILENAM
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 I_BEGIN_ROW = 1
 I_END_COL = 6
 I_END_ROW = 100
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 INTERN = xl_itab.
* EXCEPTIONS
* INCONSISTENT_PARAMETERS = 1
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i would reward points for the helpful answers.

If you see your XLS file in notepad/wordpad, you can see there is nothing like u have written in ur XLS sheet. U will see file with special characters.
So I think that's the reason you can not use FM : GUI_UPLOAD for uploading file from PC to SAP.
You have to use FM : TEXT_CONVERT_XLS_TO_SAP.
In LSMW, this FM is not used.
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If you guys want to replicate this in your local environment, it's very easy using the steps I outlined in my bug report. Please report back on your results. I would love to see if other users experience the same or different.
Steps to Reproduce:
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<cfinput type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload File">
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<cfset uploadFileFilter = ".xls,.xlsx" />
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Sending an email attachment for xls file

Hi all,
I am executing the reports in background, i am getting spool after executing. Just i need to convert the spool to xls format and email through attachment and mail to the user.The xls file should not be saved on local system.
I need your help.
Regards
Vinay.

see this link
to send xls as attachment.
http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/reporting/email/attach_xls.htm

Text no longer prints for xls files from preview

After upgrade to Mavericks xls files no longer print text or save it into pdf files. The text is visible on the preview screen in print but does not get transfered into the files or to the printer. I deleted and reloaded the printers in preferences and reset the PRAM. That did not solve this issue.

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Encryption Type in Microsoft Excel 2013 (XLS file)

Hello,
I am creating a password protected file of format Excel 97-2003 Workbook (.xls) using Microsoft Office 2013.
I have written a java program to read password protected excel file using POI API. I am able to read .xlsx file using this API, but I am not able to read .xls file. It throw error : org.apache.poi.hssf.record.RecordFormatException: Unknown encryption
info 4
Using same java code I am able to read .xls file if I use Microsoft Office 2010 to create this file.
As per POI API documentation:
Apache POI contains support for reading few variants of encrypted office files:
XLS - RC4 Encryption
XML-based formats (XLSX, DOCX and etc) - AES and Agile Encryption
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Hi,
Please see the article and check if it is helpful:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35897
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Can't open .xls files created by Numbers

All of a sudden, using Numbers '09 I can no longer open certain .xls files that I created in the first place by saving .numbers files as Excel files (using the "Save copy as Excel Document" checkbox in the Save As... dialog box). Some will open, but the vast majority attempt to open, and then I get an "Import Error - An unknown error occurred." message. Backed up copies of the same files produce the same result. New .numbers files I save as Excel documents can't open either.
Background: Earlier tonight while saving a .numbers file as an Excel Document, the blue "progress" bar got about halfway and then just hung there. Having not rebooted the computer for a couple of weeks, and lots of apps open, I proceeded to shut down other processes and eventually the blue progress bar finished and an Excel file was saved. However, after rebooting the computer, the above inability to open Excel files started to occur. Something in the "save as" process must have corrupted?
I quit Numbers, deleted the com.apple.iwork.numbers.plist file from Library/preferences, emptied trash, and restarted Numbers -- but that didn't solve the problem.
What would you all suggest now at this point? Would reinstalling Numbers solve this? (hmmn, where is that disc?) I'm personally fine with the .numbers format, but my clients are not, hence the need to save as Excel documents. Any help would be appreciated!

ack, this whole thing is frustrating. I can create new .numbers documents, save them as Excel documents, and those resulting .xls documents will open fine. HOWEVER, if I grab an old .xls document from a time machine backup (over a month ago), I cannot open it. Nor can I open an newly saved .xls document saved from the same original .numbers file.
It would seem that the only thing I can do now is take those old .numbers files and copy/paste the content into a brand new .numbers file. After saving as, the resulting .xls files open fine (with the usual "import warnings", but I'm used to those )

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I saw a post from 2010 that suggested updating iwork '09 to numbers 2.0.3 and pages 4.0.3 but when I check for software updates it gives none for iwork. I have not changed the original location or name of the folder/file of where the iwork files were installed automatically.
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XLS Files created by SSRS will not open in Numbers on the iPad

The company I work for creates business intelligence reports which are used in an education environment and are created daily and e-mailed out to staff. These reports contain fairly simple tables with pupil data.
One customer uses iPads extensively to maximise the quick response to this (behaviour) data. There is an issue which seems to be prevalent in newer versions of Numbers where these documents can not be opened. I note a previous discussion on this matter where the only solution was to save the file in excel and then the sheets would open. This is not really an option here.
I presume that there is some data missing in the header of the XLS file or something but if anyone has any information on this, especially if I can adapt the report in any way to include this data, please let me know if you have overcome a similar issue and how you went about it.
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Hi - thank you for your responses. I don't have an iPad so testing is all being done on site.
The report is based on three tabs, each producing a basic table with data in. I can create the reports in CSV and they work fine although the format is all wrong (no tabs etc etc) - but that would lead me to believe that it is nothing in the actual data which is causing the load error. It also seems fairly intermittent, so I tested with a few different file sizes to make sure it wasn't this - and again nothing too conclusive there.
I presume quicklook is the built in function to view a file, I spotted this today but again it won't open in that or then again when asked to open in Numbers.
Hunting around this forum it seems there is some issue in general with opening some XLS files (especially ones created by SSRS) depending on iOS version, so that is the route I will be looking at tomorrow. Putting these files through a save loop in excel isn't really an option, so I am going to test with a go between e-mail tomorrow which has in some cases seemed to do the trick - maybe appending something to the original file. Some other posts have suggested that an XLSX file seems to work a lot better and that is supported in MS SQL 2012 which is on the way for our customers at some point.
Definitely an awkward one!
Thanks,
Pete

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The attachment is an .xls excel 97-2003 spreadsheet. I viewed the file in the email and did not edit it with any software. I can forward the file to anyone that is may want to check it out to see if they can help me. I was wondering if there was some way of forcing another ios6 install on my phone and maybe that would solve it.
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Open xls files in numbers

When I get an attachment in my email .xls I cannot open it on my email nor with numbers. .xlsx is to a problem. How do I resolve this?

Hi - thank you for your responses. I don't have an iPad so testing is all being done on site.
The report is based on three tabs, each producing a basic table with data in. I can create the reports in CSV and they work fine although the format is all wrong (no tabs etc etc) - but that would lead me to believe that it is nothing in the actual data which is causing the load error. It also seems fairly intermittent, so I tested with a few different file sizes to make sure it wasn't this - and again nothing too conclusive there.
I presume quicklook is the built in function to view a file, I spotted this today but again it won't open in that or then again when asked to open in Numbers.
Hunting around this forum it seems there is some issue in general with opening some XLS files (especially ones created by SSRS) depending on iOS version, so that is the route I will be looking at tomorrow. Putting these files through a save loop in excel isn't really an option, so I am going to test with a go between e-mail tomorrow which has in some cases seemed to do the trick - maybe appending something to the original file. Some other posts have suggested that an XLSX file seems to work a lot better and that is supported in MS SQL 2012 which is on the way for our customers at some point.
Definitely an awkward one!
Thanks,
Pete

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