XLS to NUMBERS

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File extension	.xls
Category	Document File
Description	Microsoft Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Pre-2007 versions of Excel use XLS as the primary format for saving files. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993, and it has almost completely replaced Lotus 1-2-3 as the industry standard for spreadsheets. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office. The current versions are 2010 for Microsoft Windows and 2011 for Mac OS X.
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Technical Details	Microsoft Excel up until 2007 version used a proprietary binary file format called Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) as its primary format. Used as the basis for XLS files it is a persistence format that supports authoring and manipulating content in workbooks and workbook templates. Most versions of Microsoft Excel can read CSV, DBF, SYLK, DIF, and other legacy formats.
Associated programs	Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel Viewer OpenOffice
Developed by	Microsoft
MIME type	application/vnd.ms-excel
Useful links	More detail about the XLS format How to open an XLS file without Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office binary file format specifications Convert XLS file

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Using Zamzar it is possible to convert XLS files to a variety of other formats:

xls to bmp (Windows bitmap)
xls to csv (Comma Separated Values)
xls to gif (Compuserve graphics interchange)
xls to html (Hypertext Markup Language)
xls to html4 (Hypertext Markup Language)
xls to html5 (Hypertext Markup Language)
xls to jpg (JPEG compliant image)
xls to mdb (Microsoft Access Database)
xls to numbers (Apple iWork Numbers Spreadsheet)
xls to numbers09 (Apple iWork '09 Numbers Spreadsheet)
xls to ods (OpenDocument spreadsheet)
xls to pdf (Portable Document Format)
xls to png (Portable Network Graphic)
xls to rtf (Rich Text Format)
xls to tiff (Tagged image file format)
xls to txt (Text Document)
xls to xlsx (Microsoft Excel 2007 Spreadsheet)
xls to xml (Extensible Markup Language)

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File extension

.numbers

Category

Document File

Description

Files with a .numbers extension are created by Apple's "Numbers" application which forms part of Apple's iWork office suite, a set of applications which run on the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, and also includes Keynote (for presentations) and Pages (for word processing).

Numbers 1.0 on OS X was first announced on August 7 2007, and the .numbers file contains many of the standard features of a spreadsheet with support for rows, columns, graphs, formulas and charts. The iPad version of Numbers was released in January 2010, and the most recent version of Numbers on OS X is version 3.5 released in November 2014 as part of Apple's iWork '14 update.

As with other products in the iWork suite Numbers includes a variety of layouts designed by professional illustrators and also includes support for importing documents from Microsoft's Office suite (in this case Excel spreadsheets).

The key advances in Numbers are summarised below:

Version	Date	Key features
1.0	August 2007	First version - basic features.
2.0	January 2009	Adds features to allow charts in Keynote and Pages to be automatically updated when changed in Numbers files.
2.1	July 2011	Support added for OS X Lion features such as "full screen", "resume", "auto save" and "versioning".
2.2	July 2012	Includes features for integration with iCloud, retina display support and dictation features.
2.3	December 2012	Includes improved compatibility with Excel documents, the ability to hide and unhide rows and columns amd filters.
3.0	October 2013	Launched with a new UI to match that found in Pages and Keynote, and also includes the ability to create interactive charts.
3.5	October 2014	New OS X Yosemite inspired design, support for iCloud drive, and an updated Numbers file format.

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Technical Details

A .numbers file is actually a compressed ZIP file comprised of a number of other different files combined that together make up a .numbers file. The most recent version of Numbers saves files with an "Index" directory containing Apple's proprietary IWA file format, a "Metadata" directory with .plist files and one or more jpg files for allowing quick previews. Similar to Microsoft products, the .numbers file type suffers from a lack of compatibility with other leading spreadsheet programs.

Associated programs

Apple iWork
Numbers 2.1
Numbers 2.2
Numbers 2.3
Numbers 3.0
Numbers 3.5

Developed by

Apple

MIME type

application/x-iwork-numbers-sffnumbers
application/vnd.apple.numbers

Useful links

MacWorld review of Numbers 3.5
Ars Technica review of iWork '14
Numbers supported file formats
More information on Numbers
Official Apple iWork Numbers details
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