Can i open excel in ipad

By Steve Lander. The instructions in the article apply to iPads running iOS 5 and 6 and may or may not apply to other versions of the iPad.

The procedure in this article will also work with Excel files downloaded from the Web, although you will use the iPad's Safari Web browser instead of the email client to access it. Related Articles. On the iPad, you have to select one row with the row header, but then you need to drag that selection to wherever you want it to end. Then select Delete from the menu. Excel also benefits from the precision of a mouse on the desktop.

Again, for simple spreadsheets this might be fine, but for more advanced workflows, your fingers may be woefully inaccurate. The only thing you can do with the Apple Pencil is draw freehand on top of your spreadsheets. Maybe there are more people out there who need this more than we think, but adding a remedial drawing interface over what should be a powerful productivity tool feels like the wrong move.

For many people, Excel is a place where data gets processed before being passed off to its final destination. One example would be downloading a large data set in a CSV, importing it into Excel, and running some analytics on that data. Maybe you want to make some changes and save that as a new CSV, even. Excel can open most of the file types you would expect, although you should know that it uses an online file conversion tool to convert things like CSVs to Excel documents.

This may be fine by you, but could be an issue if it is a very large file that takes a long time to upload and then re-download from this conversion service. The killer here is the lack of CSV support. The bottom line is that you should only really expect to get. You can switch to another tab or a whole other document in Excel and paste it without a problem. Pasting into Drafts and a note in OmniFocus pasted the data in tab-separated text, which is good.

Double-tap the attached file, or double-tap the link to the file in your iCloud or Dropbox account. Your iPad will open the Excel file for you to read. Home Smart Devices.