TS1702 when I export my spreadsheets from numbers to excel, it separates every table on the spreadsheet into separate spreadsheets? The export feature to excel is useless to me because of this.

Question

Does anyone know why my spreadsheet from numbers that I created on my iPad using numbers, when I export the file to an excel format it separates all the tables in the spreadsheet into individual spreadsheets.  Instead of keeping the multiple tables on the single spreadsheet that I made.

Answer 1

Pop up menus won't export to Excel, just as Excel's data validation (their way of doing drop-down menus) won't import into Numbers.  I don't know any way around this other than to avoid pop up menus.  But if you are willing to do a little cleaning up after the export, you can recreate the pop-ups as data validation.  In your spreadsheet, include a table that has your list of pop up values. In Excel, use that list to create data validation.
Excel doesn't have checkboxes.  Often an "X" is used as a "checkmark" in Excel. You can design your Numbers spreadsheet to work the same way.  You'll have to fix any formulas that use the checkbox status; the formulas now need to look for "X" or blank instead of True/False.