Is there a way to read OSX .numbers files?

Question

A friend has given me a spreadsheet generated by Mac OSX "Numbers" and before I ask her to resend it, I'm wondering if there's secretly a way that I can just read this in Ubuntu.

Is there maybe a plugin for LibreOffice? Just googling isn't turning up much -- "numbers" kind of gets lost in the noise.

Solution 1

I am using Ubuntu 20.04, and the file with ".numbers" extension opens correctly with LibreOffice Calc

Solution 2

Steps:

1. Log into icloud.com and click on "Numbers"
2. Upload the .Numbers file to your iCloud account. Some browsers support drag-and-drop
3. Download the file in .CSV or .XLSX format. Download options are available by alt-clicking the file you just uploaded
4. Open in LibreOffice

Solution 3

I'd rather comment but not enough points... I think I would ask your friend to use numbers to do the following and send you a .csv file. Any of us with numbers could do it for you. I will if you wish to send me the file... I have MS Office on my Mac and several other office packages. On my ubuntu box I have libreoffice, if I can help you... scott

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5491619

Comments

[Amanda]

She's not super tech savvy and the point of sending me this file was that she could stop dealing with it and it would be my problem. So before I ask her to go open it and save as csv, I want to figure out if I can do the legwork myself.

[Wilf]

@ScottPorter, it is probably possible to export to xml or xls formats, which can then be imported into LibreOffice at the click of a button...

[Wilf]

Your link does not work by the way...

[Scott Porter]

I just tried the link, apple says:back soon, sorry Amanda. As for xml or xls, I tried in numbers v 3.0.1 and PDf, Excel and CSV are the export options. Sorry I wasn't more help.

[Amanda]

Link is fixed, FWIW.

[Amanda]

Accepting b/c it is pretty clear that re-saving in a format I can read is the only real option.

[Scott Porter]

do you want me to try Amanda/ or your friend? If so I can give you my email.

[Sohel Ahmed Mesaniya]

would not be optimal for big files

[Amanda]

I found myself once again needing to open a .numbers on Ubuntu and this time it just worked to open it from within Calc.

[Amanda]

Changing the accepted answer because sometime in the last six years, Calc has learned to read .numbers files. Whew!

[Admin]

Although the macros are all gone (not surprised)...