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How to open an xlsx file with Excel 365?

Anonymous
2023-06-08T21:32:02+00:00

My laptop does not have Excel installed locally, but I have an Office365 subscription. I need to update an Excel workbook that is located on my hard drive, but all the MS answers are telling me to click the Open or File/Open links to open .xlsx files stored on my HD. Excel 365 does not have an Open or File\Open control that I can find. I moved the file to OneDrive but that did not help; Excel365 still cannot navigate to it.

Evidently MS changed the Excel 365 UI to exclude any capability to open an xlsx file, so how do I do it?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-09T03:15:12+00:00

    Click upload, then you may upload your local file to online, then open it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-08T22:07:14+00:00

    I don't see File/Open here...

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-09T13:09:01+00:00

    Click upload, then you may upload your local file to online, then open it.

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    Yes, I also found that I could move the file to OneDrive in File Explorer and then I could open it. Evidently O365 cannot directly access my hard drive. Microsoft never says this anywhere. I wish they did a better job communicating that O365 is entirely a could-based system, unlike Dropbox, Box, etc.

    Geoff

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-08T21:53:58+00:00

    If O365 is installed You can open an xlsx doc

    O365/Excel does have File > Open It also has File > Save As to select the file Type.

    If that doc has been moved to OneDrive, and you start Excel on another device then it can be opened from within Excel

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