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Upgrade To Catalina, Opening Excel File With Numbers, Formulas Not Working ?

I have Upgraded to Catalina and opening excel file with numbers (as excel is not working now in Catalina OS), i see now that the formulas of that excel file are not working. Can you offer the me the resolution for this please ?
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Mahendra Tantia

Comments: 3 Responses to “Upgrade To Catalina, Opening Excel File With Numbers, Formulas Not Working ?”

    4 years ago

    Excel works fine in Catalina. But it sounds like you probably had a very old version of Excel. If you found Excel valuable before, and think you will find it valuable now, then why not simply get a more recent version of Excel?

    As for Excel formulas not working in Numbers, I'd need to know more. What formulas, exactly? Most formulas should work just fine, but perhaps you have some Excel-specific things that Numbers doesn't have the equivalent function for. It is rare, but possible. If that is the case, then getting Excel is your only option unless you can recreate equivalent formulas using functions found in Numbers.

    Maryanne Yenoli
    3 years ago

    Why assume the original poster did not have the current version of excel?

    3 years ago

    Maryanne: The OP said "as excel is not working now in Catalina OS" and the current version DOES work on Catalina. I get lots of questions and I suspected that by stating this, they are using an old version of Excel that is 32-bit instead of 64-bit. Catalina only works with 64-bit apps.

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