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I recently transferred all my backed up files from my old PC to MacBook. All files are fine, except the one xls. file which I actually need which is an Excel Spreadsheet. Instead of data all I can see is symbols and numbers in all the fields. (All other spreadsheets were converted to Numbers absolutely fine).


I have trawled the internet, Youtube, Apple etc to find out how to repair this but I can find nothing - at least nothing I can understand! I'm a bit of a techno-idiot.


Any help greatly appreciated....

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One work around might be to pop it in to a google drive - available with a G-mail account. Then open the file using Google Sheets. Sheets works on opening excel spreadsheets pretty well. You can then save it back down as an excel if you need.


Happy to give more help if needed. Aware the above might sound like gobbledegook to some.

I've not used iWorks although from what I've read it should be compatible with Excel. I have MS Office on my PC but not on my Mac. To open Word and Excel files on my Mac I use Open Office which is free and always been trouble free for me. You can find a Mac download here http://www.openoffice.org/

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