Numbers has the ability to open Excel files so you can work on them. You can also export spreadsheets in Numbers so that they are compatible with Excel.

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By design, Apple uses its own Numbers (.numbers) file format, while Excel uses the XLSX file format, or for earlier spreadsheets, the XLS format. You can open XLSX files in Numbers, but you can ...

Numbers has a specific built-in tool for exporting in Excel format, which converts each table in the Numbers file into a separate sheet in the Excel file.