Numbers to Excel
Turn an Apple Numbers spreadsheet into an Excel workbook without a Mac, an account or an upload. Your file is read here in the browser, and you see exactly what came across before anything downloads.
Drop your files here or click to upload
Supports .numbers · up to 200MB · or paste a file from your clipboard
Why a Numbers file will not just open in Excel
A .numbers file is not a spreadsheet in the sense Excel understands. It is a package of compressed, Apple-specific records holding the sheets, the tables on them, and every cell and formula, in a layout Apple has never published. Double-clicking one on a Windows machine gets you nothing, and plenty of so-called converters simply unzip the package and hand back the preview image Numbers saved for the Finder, or a folder of assets that is not a spreadsheet at all.
This tool reads the records themselves. It walks the document the way Numbers does - sheet by sheet, table by table, cell by cell - and writes a genuine Excel workbook from what it finds. Where the two applications disagree, it tells you instead of quietly picking one.
What comes across
| Sheets and tables | Each readable table becomes its own worksheet |
|---|---|
| Cell values and types | Text, numbers, currency amounts, dates, durations, true and false |
| Formulas | Rebuilt as Excel formulas wherever Excel has the same function |
| Number and date formats | The currency symbol, decimal places, percentages and the document's own date pattern |
| Cell styling | Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, text colour, cell background, alignment and wrapping |
| Merged cells | Range-checked against the table, so a merge never lands on the wrong cells |
| Layout | Column widths, row heights, hidden rows and columns, frozen headers |
| Pictures | Supported picture formats are embedded at their recorded position and size |
And what does not
Every one of these is listed in the report on screen before you download, with the cells or sheets it affects.
| Charts | Rebuild from the converted table, which keeps all of the source data |
|---|---|
| Shapes and text boxes | The Numbers canvas has no counterpart in a worksheet |
| Font faces and sizes | Excel opens the workbook in its own default face; weight, colour and the rest of the styling still cross |
| Borders, gradients and table banding | A gradient or picture background is not one colour, so those cells arrive with no background |
| Numbers-only functions | The cell keeps its calculated value and is named in the report |
| Formulas that reach into another table | Kept as the calculated value rather than a reference that might point somewhere wrong |
How to convert a Numbers file to Excel
- Choose your Numbers fileDrop a .numbers file onto the page or pick it from your device. It is read in the browser; nothing is uploaded.
- Look over what was foundThe sheets, tables, cell counts and formulas are listed, with a preview of each worksheet the download will contain.
- Choose sheets and a file nameLeave every sheet selected or pick the ones you need, and name the workbook whatever suits you.
- Read the conversion reportAnything Excel handles differently is listed before you download, cell by cell where that matters.
- Download the .xlsxThe workbook saves straight to your device, ready for Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice or Numbers itself.
Converting a batch
Drop in several files and they join a queue. A few convert at a time - enough to keep things moving, few enough that a phone does not run out of memory holding several parsed documents at once. Each row names the sheet being read, and you can pause the queue, cancel one file or retry a failure without starting over.
Download the batch as a ZIP and it arrives with conversion-report.txt inside: every source file, the workbook it became, the worksheets in it and any warnings. Warnings on screen are easy to scroll past; the ones in the ZIP are still there next week.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. The converter reads the .numbers file itself, so it works on Windows, Linux, Android and ChromeOS as well as on a Mac. All you need is the file and a current browser.
Readable sheets and tables, supported cell values and types, dates, durations, merged cells, column widths and row heights, hidden rows and columns, frozen headers, and formulas wherever Excel has the same function. Anything the reader could not carry over is listed in the report shown before you download.
Formulas are rebuilt as real Excel formulas, with references resolved against the cell they sit in and parentheses added where Numbers stored the structure without them. A few Numbers functions have no Excel equivalent - the duration helpers, the stock and currency lookups, REGEX - and cells using those keep the value Numbers last calculated instead. Each one is named in the report.
A Numbers sheet is a canvas that can hold several tables side by side, while an Excel worksheet is a single grid. Each table becomes its own worksheet, named after the sheet and the table it came from, so nothing is squashed together or overwritten.
No. The file is read and the workbook is written inside your browser tab. There is no upload, no API call and no copy of your data anywhere but your own device. The page fetches its own code the way any web page does - the converter runs in a background thread that has to be loaded once - but your spreadsheet is never part of a request.
Yes. Drop in several .numbers files and they convert a few at a time, with progress for each and the option to pause, cancel or retry. Download workbooks one by one, or take the completed files as a ZIP that includes a plain-text report. Browser memory is the practical batch limit.
Numbers changed how it stores cells in 2020. A document that has not been opened since can still hold the older layout, which this converter does not read rather than guess at. Open it in a current version of Numbers, save it again, and the cells convert normally.
Charts are drawn on the Numbers canvas rather than stored the way Excel stores a chart, so they are not carried over - but the table each one was built from is. Shapes and text boxes have no worksheet equivalent either. Cell colours do come across: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, text colour, cell background, alignment and wrapping are all rebuilt with Excel’s own formatting, along with the number and date formats. Font faces and sizes, borders and gradient backgrounds are not. The compatibility report lists each difference your file actually ran into.
A protected document is encrypted, and this converter deliberately has no way into one. Open it in Numbers with the password, remove the password from the file, then convert the unprotected copy.
The input limit is 200 MB, but the practical limit depends on the document and the memory available to your browser. Files over 40 MB trigger a warning; on a phone, convert large files one at a time and close other tabs first. The converter uses a background worker when available and falls back to the same local parser if a worker cannot start.