How to Convert Mac Excel to Windows Excel
Microsoft Excel is a great spreadsheet application for both Mac OS X and Windows. If you're working with co-workers on a spreadsheet across both platforms, you should know how to ensure your spreadsheets are compatible across as many versions of Excel as possible. Here's how.
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Instructions
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Open the spreadsheet you'd like to save in a Windows-compatible format. By default, Microsoft Office 2008 saves .xlsx files, which can only be read by the newest version of Microsoft Office for Windows.
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Click the "File" menu, and select "Save As..."
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Click the blue downward-pointing arrow to the right of the "Save As:" box.
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Navigate to the directory you'd like to save the file in.
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Click on the drop-down box labeled "Format:" and select "Excel 97-2004 Workbook." Every version of Excel sold since 1997 will be able to read files in this format.
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Click "Save" in the bottom right and you are finished!
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