Open _XLS file

Renamed Excel spreadsheet

What is _xls file? Understanding and opening _xls files

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Renamed Excel spreadsheet

Mostly, files with a _xls extension are workbooks or renamed backups from the spreadsheet editor, Microsoft Excel, which is distributed as part of the Microsoft Office suite.

Further details

_xls files are just renamed Excel files, that otherwise feature XLS or later XLSX extension.

Meaning you can probably rename _xls to xls and restore the default file associations in Windows.

This file format can store data, charts, tables, and workbooks. It was the primary file format used by Excel to save data until the 2007 version when it was replaced by the .xlsx file format. However, .xls files are still widely used and supported by the latest versions of Microsoft Excel.

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Microsoft Excel

A popular spreadsheet application distributed with Microsoft Office suite

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Microsoft Excel for Mac

A popular spreadsheet application from the Microsoft Office suite

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Microsoft Excel Viewer

Free viewer for Excel spreadsheets

What file extension actually is?

Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the computer file name, so for example document-name.pdf has file extension „pdf“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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