It may be a case that you installed Microsoft Office Applications on your Mac and realized that the Excel Spreadsheets are not getting opened in Excel App by default. In such a case below are the steps to make Excel the default app for .xlsx, .xls, and .csv files.
- Control Click (Right Click) on a file with extension .xlsx, .xls, or .csv on your Mac.
- Now select Get Info
- Now expand Open With: and look for Microsoft Excel and select it.
- Next Click on "Change All..." so that you can use the Excel application to open all documents like this one.
- Click Continue on prompt "Are you sure you want to change all similar documents to open with the application "Microsoft Excel"?"
- Close the Get Info window.
Steps:
That's it! Just make sure to follow the steps for each kind of file supported by Microsoft Excel for once and you should be good.
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