To update Numbers for Mac, use the App Store app on your Mac. If you convert a Numbers spreadsheet into a Numbers '09-compatible spreadsheet, find out more about changes that happen when you export to iWork '09. This is a bitmap image format that was created by the MacPaint graphics program used on Apple Macintosh computers. The MAC format supported the display of only two colors, including a pattern palette. It was used by Macintosh graphics editors to store black-and-white graphics. The maximum image size was 576×720. Can anyone help us convert this macro from the Windows Excel version so that it works with Mac Excel against the Mac OS file system? Here's the VBA code from the Windows Excel version: Dim iRow, namelen, pathlen. Sub ListFiles iRow = 6 Call ListMyFiles(Range('C3')) End Sub. Sub ListMyFiles(mySourcePath) Set MyObject = New Scripting.
Brief overview and best practices on how to take an Excel (.xlsx) file and convert it into a comma delimited values (CSV or .csv) file. This is useful if you're trying to upload files to a database or other systems that do not support .xlsx or other files. You can simply convert them to .csv so the system can ingest them in a compatible format.
This tutorial will cover how-to execute this and some basic best practices.
Though this is pretty basic IT knowledge, it can be used as a useful How-To for beginners and/or used as a living document you can refer people to. Lastly, even though it's basic file conversion, there's some tips on what to watch out for when converting from Excel to CSV.
4 Steps total
Step 1: Start with a Saved or Working Excel File
So we can work from the same file at the outset and control for potential outliers/corruptions, I'm uploading this .xlsx file. It contains my top 10 most misused or non-existent words that one should ever fall victim to.
It's only ten rows across two columns so it's not a lot of data. You don't have to use this if you don't want to, but if you want a test file, this one will work just fine.
Regardless, the steps below will work for any standard Excel doc.
Step 2: Click 'File' on the Ribbon
Once you have the file above (or other Excel file) open, go to the 'File' tab on the uppermost ribbon. Unless configured otherwise it is usually in the upper lefthand corner of an open Excel document.
Once you have the dropdown menu open after hovering over 'File', click 'Save As' from the tab's dropdown menu. A pop-up menu will appear once you have done so. The attached image is a version of what this would look like on a Mac. PC's will be very similar.
Step 3: Save the Excel (.xlsx) File into a CSV (.csv)
In the form of a 'File Format' option the menu will ask you what type of file you want to save your current .xlsx into. The full list of conversion options will vary by the type of operating system you have, but there's a few common types that are pretty consistent across the board.
Convert Mac Excel To Windows Excel
The highlighted option in the attached image is the most general of .csv file options. Others (e.g. MS-DOS) are more specific in their use-case. Unless you have a known reason for picking another variety, it is advised to pick the .csv option that has no explicit verbiage in the naming convention as shown in the image.
Author's Note:
You'll notice that the photo shows me saving this to my applications file. This is not an advisable location for storing files of this type. I am only doing this so that I'm not showing you other files. Choose the file location that makes the most sense for your use-case.
Step 4: Best Practices and Notes
Once you've selected your file type and location you are technically done because your file has been converted, but there's a few 'gotchas' to consider when making conversions.
1) .csv does not support multiple tabs like .xslx does (basic conversion consideration)
If you have an Excel file with multiple tabs, you'll need to convert each tab to it's own .xlsx file and convert each to a .csv separately. Typically, you'll get a warning of potential data loss if you're using the 'Save As' wizard, but the error message is not always explicit as to what you're going to lose.
2) The default file opener for .csv files in most systems is Excel (slightly more advanced consideration)
This is because Excel is smart enough to break files into rows and columns better than most (if not all user-friendly) programs. However, it is not the only way these types of files can be opened. In fact, if you're having trouble importing a .csv into a database, I would advise that you open it up in your favorite text editor instead. That way, you can see what the root cause of a potential error is because Excel will often mask these errors making it look like nothing is wrong because it is smart enough to correct these errors behind the covers.
The image attached to this step shows the example file in .csv format. Wherever you put the file you converted in previous steps, right click it, go to 'Open With', and you'll see your default program as well as a list of other options. If you open the file with a text editor (e.g. Notepad, Notepad++, TextEdit, Sublime, Atom, etc....), you'll be able to view the file as the 'computer sees it'. This will help you navigate upload errors in a database.
3) File header best practice (advanced consideration)
In the file in step one, you'll notice that the second column, column B, has spaces in its header. This is not advised if you want to upload a .csv file into another system and carry the headers over. This is because it can cause two potential problems in a database:
a) If it uploads with a header, you will have to wrap what is now your column name in double quotes every time you call it in a query. It's not an impediment to uploading all the time, but it can be really annoying if you have to write it that way over and over again. Also, it will prevent auto-complete if your database program supports it.
b) It could cause an upload error in some systems because they're trying to prevent the troubles in 'a' above, and it could prevent you from uploading the file entirely if you do not remove or fix the header.
To prevent this, simply snake_case or CamelCase the header so there are no spaces in its name.
Whew!
I know that is a lot of text for a seemingly simple exercise, but I cannot tell you how many times I've either had to (a) teach someone how to simply convert a file to a CSV, or (b) had issues uploading a file into a database due to elementary issues.
There's a lot more to this including, non UTF-8 supported characters, data types, casting, fixing .csv upload errors through vim or bash editing.... All topics for another time. For now, that's a wrap.
Hope you found this helpful!
19 Comments
- TabascoBackpackingTech Jun 22, 2018 at 05:32pm
Surprising how many end users literally need hand holding over the simplest things.
- Geoff B (Spiceworks) Jul 12, 2018 at 03:26pm
One note I would like to add, if you're building an application that uploads a .csv, and a .csv only, this conversion won't matter on a Windows machine because of how that OS handles file conversions. In short, Windows handles MIME types in ways that make uploading .csv files difficult because you cannot truly convert them out of .xlsx.
Explanation of the problem in a GitHub project:
https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/issues/18The tools are starting to get better and handling file types more expertly
Example application with file_type selection for better handling of variance:
http://oss.sheetjs.com/js-xlsx/ - MaceMike400 Jul 18, 2018 at 01:39pm
Even after doing this I've run into systems that won't support the generated CSV file. Excel is very, very smart when it comes to CSV files, supporting line breaks and other special characters in the various fields. Most CSV file importers will fail on these.
- SerranoScripting Guy Jul 18, 2018 at 01:51pm
Great post. Also for those admins that for some reason need a CSV converted to Excel I highly recommend PSExcel.
https://github.com/RamblingCookieMonster/PSExcel
- Cayennethemacguy Jul 18, 2018 at 02:13pm
Just think back of how hard all this was 10 years ago.
- JalapenoDevon1987 Jul 18, 2018 at 02:37pm
Couldn't you also use PowerShell with a 'ConvertTo-Csv' cmdlet? I would think for a batch job that could be a better option.
- Geoff B (Spiceworks) Jul 18, 2018 at 02:41pm
@Devon1987
For sure you could! For batching, this would most definitely be a better option. Also, If you're using a *nix machine, you could just use a Perl command to change all the file names with any given string.
Not really a tutorial for that, and more of the elementary variety, but you're 100% right.
- Thai PepperBerto007 Jul 18, 2018 at 02:52pm
Good post. I've had to look up how to convert to csv a few times as I don't often have to convert files. It's funny how many times I run in to errors and their never the same error.
- TabascoJianderson Jul 18, 2018 at 03:39pm
I appreciate articles like these -- even simple workflows should have solid documentation, and this definitely qualifies. Nice write up.
- Cayennefuricle Jul 18, 2018 at 03:46pm
Problem is, csv isn't a standard.
Excel has certain default behaviour that many people consider to be a standard, but it aint....
- Cayennecnicholsontech Jul 18, 2018 at 05:06pm
Furicle:
There no official CSV standard, but there are common ways that CSV handle escaped fields. It's generally accepted that if you have a field with commas in it, the field can be enclosed by double quotes. That's how excel handles it, and that's how most databases handle it (sometimes it has to be enabled. For example, doing a MySQL import infile command, you can specify a clauseOPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY ''
(that's a single quote, a double quote, and a single quote, meaning you can enclose fields in double quotes. And there are further ways to escape double quotes that are generally considered as best practices, if not an outright standard. It's only *not* a standard because it basically pre-dates everyone trying to patent their garbage formats and seek licensing fees.
- Datiltroberts2 Jul 18, 2018 at 07:29pm
Anyone skipped using the application and just coded for batching up a folder of files using Powershell to convert them?? TechNet had this doozy listed out there ... just swap out location as needed.
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
Function Convert-CsvInBatch
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$Folder
)
$ExcelFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $Folder -Filter *.xlsx -Recurse$excelApp = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$excelApp.DisplayAlerts = $false$ExcelFiles | ForEach-Object {
$workbook = $excelApp.Workbooks.Open($_.FullName)
$csvFilePath = $_.FullName -replace '.xlsx$', '.csv'
$workbook.SaveAs($csvFilePath, [Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlFileFormat]::xlCSV)
$workbook.Close()
}# Release Excel Com Object resource
$excelApp.Workbooks.Close()
$excelApp.Visible = $true
Start-Sleep 5
$excelApp.Quit()
[System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($excelApp) | Out-Null
}#
# 0. Prepare the folder path which contains all excel files
$FolderPath = 'D:varprojectsOCOSvarexcelchange'Convert-CsvInBatch -Folder $FolderPath
There's another article out there in a similar site with alternate code as well ..... https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3223/extract-and-convert-all-excel-worksheets-into-csv-files-using-powershell/
- ChipotleEliteCommander Jul 19, 2018 at 09:04am
I once (back in the 90's) had to manipulate a 'database' file containing every model of car in existence, at least every one that the company, an insurance broker, would cover. I think it was 35-50k lines of data. The original file came from a mainframe and was in a kind of loosely organised csv-style format and they needed it in Excel since that's what the office was using. Every time I changed something and did a sort on the table, I'd start it running and then go to lunch, getting back about 1 hour later to find it had either just completed or was near to finishing. I'm glad we have better tools and processors these days. Thanks for the tips, I have had to teach this on many occasions, but still learned a little about importing csvs into other applications.
- SerranoDale2538 Jul 20, 2018 at 01:51am
Sub QuoteCommaExport()
' Dimension all variables.
Dim FileNum As Integer
Dim ColumnCount As Integer
Dim RowCount As IntegerDim sFName
If Selection.Rows.Count = 1 Then
MsgBox 'Select rows to export'
Exit Sub
End If
' Force File Type during Save
sFName = Application.GetSaveAsFilename(ActiveWorkbook.Path & 'textfile.csv', 'CSVfiles (*.csv), *.csv')If sFName = False Then
MsgBox 'cancelled'
Exit Sub
End If
' Obtain next free file handle number.
FileNum = FreeFile()' Turn error checking off.
On Error Resume Next' Attempt to open destination file for output.
Open sFName For Output As #FileNum' If an error occurs report it and end.
If Err <> 0 Then
MsgBox 'Cannot open filename ' & sFName
End
End If' Turn error checking on.
On Error GoTo 0' Loop for each row in selection.
For RowCount = 1 To Selection.Rows.Count' Loop for each column in selection.
For ColumnCount = 1 To Selection.Columns.Count' Write current cell's text to file with quotation marks.
Print #FileNum, '' & Selection.Cells(RowCount, _
ColumnCount).Text & '';' Check if cell is in last column.
If ColumnCount = Selection.Columns.Count Then
' If so, then write a blank line.
Print #FileNum,
Else
' Otherwise, write a comma.
Print #FileNum, ',';
End If
' Start next iteration of ColumnCount loop.
Next ColumnCount
' Start next iteration of RowCount loop.
Next RowCount' Close destination file.
Close #FileNum
MsgBox 'Exported ' & RowCount
End Sub - HabaneroBill2718 Jul 20, 2018 at 06:11pm
There may not be an official standard from a standards body like ISO, but there IS a de facto standard, it's pretty well documented here.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
Line breaks are the biggest problem.
- 1
- 2
Keynote is the presentation creating software developed by Apple Inc. Competing against other current presentation programs, especially Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote has been increasingly popular for iOS users.
However, as its other software from Apple, Keynote only opens the door to Mac, iPhone and iPad, and it seems you cannot open the Keynote files for Windows.
Actually not. You could still convert Keynote to PowerPoint, which gives you the access the Keynote presentations on Windows easily.
Keep reading and grasp the 3 ways to help you convert Keynote to PowerPoint.
Part 1. How to convert Keynote to PowerPoint on Mac directly
You can use Keynote to directly export the .key file to PowerPoint. Keynote has its feature, which is able to let you get the PowerPoint slides converted from Apple Keynote. Apart from Keynote to PowerPoint export, you are able use Keynote to export the .key file to PDF or images. Besides, you can use it to export Keynote to QuickTime video.
Launch Keynote software from your Mac and start the .key file.
From the top Keynote menu, click 'File' > 'Export to' tab, and choose 'PowerPoint' option.
Then Mac will show you a window and prompt you of 'Create PowerPoint document that can be viewed and edited with Microsoft PowerPoint', click 'Next' button.
Wait till the Keynote to PowerPoint conversion is done.
Part 2. How to convert Keynote to PowerPoint online on Windows
Alternatively, if you get no Mac, you can upload Keynote files to online site to make the conversion.
Zamzar is web application that lets users to free convert files online. You are able to use Zamzar online converter to convert videos, songs, documents. With Zamzar, you can easily convert Keynote .key file to Microsoft PowerPoint with ease.
1Navigate to Zamzar's page for Key to PPT conversion.
2Choose and upload the KEY file ready to convert by clicking 'Choose File' button.
3Select PPT as the output format from the format list after you click the tab of 'Convert files to'.
4Input your email address where you want to get the converted PowerPoint file.
Download Microsoft Excel For Mac
5Finally hit the 'Convert' button to convert Keynote to PowerPoint.
Note: If your Keynote file is too large, then the conversion may be time-consuming, and Zamzar only allows you to upload the file up to 50MB.
Part 3. How to batch download/convert Keynote to PowerPoint online
If you store your Keynote file on cloud like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. or you want to download others' Keynote files online to PowerPoint, you should use cloudconvert.com.
cloudconvert.com is another online format-converting service for you to convert about 215 supported formats of video, audio, document, ebook, image and so on. You are allowed to convert KEY file to PowerPoint in this online converter.
Excel For Mac Computer
1Go to cloudconvert's page of Key to PPT conversion. In the interface, the online program shows you the main difference between Apple Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint.
The image attached to this step shows the example file in .csv format. Wherever you put the file you converted in previous steps, right click it, go to 'Open With', and you'll see your default program as well as a list of other options. If you open the file with a text editor (e.g. Notepad, Notepad++, TextEdit, Sublime, Atom, etc....), you'll be able to view the file as the 'computer sees it'. This will help you navigate upload errors in a database.
3) File header best practice (advanced consideration)
In the file in step one, you'll notice that the second column, column B, has spaces in its header. This is not advised if you want to upload a .csv file into another system and carry the headers over. This is because it can cause two potential problems in a database:
a) If it uploads with a header, you will have to wrap what is now your column name in double quotes every time you call it in a query. It's not an impediment to uploading all the time, but it can be really annoying if you have to write it that way over and over again. Also, it will prevent auto-complete if your database program supports it.
b) It could cause an upload error in some systems because they're trying to prevent the troubles in 'a' above, and it could prevent you from uploading the file entirely if you do not remove or fix the header.
To prevent this, simply snake_case or CamelCase the header so there are no spaces in its name.
Whew!
I know that is a lot of text for a seemingly simple exercise, but I cannot tell you how many times I've either had to (a) teach someone how to simply convert a file to a CSV, or (b) had issues uploading a file into a database due to elementary issues.
There's a lot more to this including, non UTF-8 supported characters, data types, casting, fixing .csv upload errors through vim or bash editing.... All topics for another time. For now, that's a wrap.
Hope you found this helpful!
19 Comments
- TabascoBackpackingTech Jun 22, 2018 at 05:32pm
Surprising how many end users literally need hand holding over the simplest things.
- Geoff B (Spiceworks) Jul 12, 2018 at 03:26pm
One note I would like to add, if you're building an application that uploads a .csv, and a .csv only, this conversion won't matter on a Windows machine because of how that OS handles file conversions. In short, Windows handles MIME types in ways that make uploading .csv files difficult because you cannot truly convert them out of .xlsx.
Explanation of the problem in a GitHub project:
https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/issues/18The tools are starting to get better and handling file types more expertly
Example application with file_type selection for better handling of variance:
http://oss.sheetjs.com/js-xlsx/ - MaceMike400 Jul 18, 2018 at 01:39pm
Even after doing this I've run into systems that won't support the generated CSV file. Excel is very, very smart when it comes to CSV files, supporting line breaks and other special characters in the various fields. Most CSV file importers will fail on these.
- SerranoScripting Guy Jul 18, 2018 at 01:51pm
Great post. Also for those admins that for some reason need a CSV converted to Excel I highly recommend PSExcel.
https://github.com/RamblingCookieMonster/PSExcel
- Cayennethemacguy Jul 18, 2018 at 02:13pm
Just think back of how hard all this was 10 years ago.
- JalapenoDevon1987 Jul 18, 2018 at 02:37pm
Couldn't you also use PowerShell with a 'ConvertTo-Csv' cmdlet? I would think for a batch job that could be a better option.
- Geoff B (Spiceworks) Jul 18, 2018 at 02:41pm
@Devon1987
For sure you could! For batching, this would most definitely be a better option. Also, If you're using a *nix machine, you could just use a Perl command to change all the file names with any given string.
Not really a tutorial for that, and more of the elementary variety, but you're 100% right.
- Thai PepperBerto007 Jul 18, 2018 at 02:52pm
Good post. I've had to look up how to convert to csv a few times as I don't often have to convert files. It's funny how many times I run in to errors and their never the same error.
- TabascoJianderson Jul 18, 2018 at 03:39pm
I appreciate articles like these -- even simple workflows should have solid documentation, and this definitely qualifies. Nice write up.
- Cayennefuricle Jul 18, 2018 at 03:46pm
Problem is, csv isn't a standard.
Excel has certain default behaviour that many people consider to be a standard, but it aint....
- Cayennecnicholsontech Jul 18, 2018 at 05:06pm
Furicle:
There no official CSV standard, but there are common ways that CSV handle escaped fields. It's generally accepted that if you have a field with commas in it, the field can be enclosed by double quotes. That's how excel handles it, and that's how most databases handle it (sometimes it has to be enabled. For example, doing a MySQL import infile command, you can specify a clauseOPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY ''
(that's a single quote, a double quote, and a single quote, meaning you can enclose fields in double quotes. And there are further ways to escape double quotes that are generally considered as best practices, if not an outright standard. It's only *not* a standard because it basically pre-dates everyone trying to patent their garbage formats and seek licensing fees.
- Datiltroberts2 Jul 18, 2018 at 07:29pm
Anyone skipped using the application and just coded for batching up a folder of files using Powershell to convert them?? TechNet had this doozy listed out there ... just swap out location as needed.
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
Function Convert-CsvInBatch
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$Folder
)
$ExcelFiles = Get-ChildItem -Path $Folder -Filter *.xlsx -Recurse$excelApp = New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$excelApp.DisplayAlerts = $false$ExcelFiles | ForEach-Object {
$workbook = $excelApp.Workbooks.Open($_.FullName)
$csvFilePath = $_.FullName -replace '.xlsx$', '.csv'
$workbook.SaveAs($csvFilePath, [Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlFileFormat]::xlCSV)
$workbook.Close()
}# Release Excel Com Object resource
$excelApp.Workbooks.Close()
$excelApp.Visible = $true
Start-Sleep 5
$excelApp.Quit()
[System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($excelApp) | Out-Null
}#
# 0. Prepare the folder path which contains all excel files
$FolderPath = 'D:varprojectsOCOSvarexcelchange'Convert-CsvInBatch -Folder $FolderPath
There's another article out there in a similar site with alternate code as well ..... https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3223/extract-and-convert-all-excel-worksheets-into-csv-files-using-powershell/
- ChipotleEliteCommander Jul 19, 2018 at 09:04am
I once (back in the 90's) had to manipulate a 'database' file containing every model of car in existence, at least every one that the company, an insurance broker, would cover. I think it was 35-50k lines of data. The original file came from a mainframe and was in a kind of loosely organised csv-style format and they needed it in Excel since that's what the office was using. Every time I changed something and did a sort on the table, I'd start it running and then go to lunch, getting back about 1 hour later to find it had either just completed or was near to finishing. I'm glad we have better tools and processors these days. Thanks for the tips, I have had to teach this on many occasions, but still learned a little about importing csvs into other applications.
- SerranoDale2538 Jul 20, 2018 at 01:51am
Sub QuoteCommaExport()
' Dimension all variables.
Dim FileNum As Integer
Dim ColumnCount As Integer
Dim RowCount As IntegerDim sFName
If Selection.Rows.Count = 1 Then
MsgBox 'Select rows to export'
Exit Sub
End If
' Force File Type during Save
sFName = Application.GetSaveAsFilename(ActiveWorkbook.Path & 'textfile.csv', 'CSVfiles (*.csv), *.csv')If sFName = False Then
MsgBox 'cancelled'
Exit Sub
End If
' Obtain next free file handle number.
FileNum = FreeFile()' Turn error checking off.
On Error Resume Next' Attempt to open destination file for output.
Open sFName For Output As #FileNum' If an error occurs report it and end.
If Err <> 0 Then
MsgBox 'Cannot open filename ' & sFName
End
End If' Turn error checking on.
On Error GoTo 0' Loop for each row in selection.
For RowCount = 1 To Selection.Rows.Count' Loop for each column in selection.
For ColumnCount = 1 To Selection.Columns.Count' Write current cell's text to file with quotation marks.
Print #FileNum, '' & Selection.Cells(RowCount, _
ColumnCount).Text & '';' Check if cell is in last column.
If ColumnCount = Selection.Columns.Count Then
' If so, then write a blank line.
Print #FileNum,
Else
' Otherwise, write a comma.
Print #FileNum, ',';
End If
' Start next iteration of ColumnCount loop.
Next ColumnCount
' Start next iteration of RowCount loop.
Next RowCount' Close destination file.
Close #FileNum
MsgBox 'Exported ' & RowCount
End Sub - HabaneroBill2718 Jul 20, 2018 at 06:11pm
There may not be an official standard from a standards body like ISO, but there IS a de facto standard, it's pretty well documented here.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
Line breaks are the biggest problem.
- 1
- 2
Keynote is the presentation creating software developed by Apple Inc. Competing against other current presentation programs, especially Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote has been increasingly popular for iOS users.
However, as its other software from Apple, Keynote only opens the door to Mac, iPhone and iPad, and it seems you cannot open the Keynote files for Windows.
Actually not. You could still convert Keynote to PowerPoint, which gives you the access the Keynote presentations on Windows easily.
Keep reading and grasp the 3 ways to help you convert Keynote to PowerPoint.
Part 1. How to convert Keynote to PowerPoint on Mac directly
You can use Keynote to directly export the .key file to PowerPoint. Keynote has its feature, which is able to let you get the PowerPoint slides converted from Apple Keynote. Apart from Keynote to PowerPoint export, you are able use Keynote to export the .key file to PDF or images. Besides, you can use it to export Keynote to QuickTime video.
Launch Keynote software from your Mac and start the .key file.
From the top Keynote menu, click 'File' > 'Export to' tab, and choose 'PowerPoint' option.
Then Mac will show you a window and prompt you of 'Create PowerPoint document that can be viewed and edited with Microsoft PowerPoint', click 'Next' button.
Wait till the Keynote to PowerPoint conversion is done.
Part 2. How to convert Keynote to PowerPoint online on Windows
Alternatively, if you get no Mac, you can upload Keynote files to online site to make the conversion.
Zamzar is web application that lets users to free convert files online. You are able to use Zamzar online converter to convert videos, songs, documents. With Zamzar, you can easily convert Keynote .key file to Microsoft PowerPoint with ease.
1Navigate to Zamzar's page for Key to PPT conversion.
2Choose and upload the KEY file ready to convert by clicking 'Choose File' button.
3Select PPT as the output format from the format list after you click the tab of 'Convert files to'.
4Input your email address where you want to get the converted PowerPoint file.
Download Microsoft Excel For Mac
5Finally hit the 'Convert' button to convert Keynote to PowerPoint.
Note: If your Keynote file is too large, then the conversion may be time-consuming, and Zamzar only allows you to upload the file up to 50MB.
Part 3. How to batch download/convert Keynote to PowerPoint online
If you store your Keynote file on cloud like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. or you want to download others' Keynote files online to PowerPoint, you should use cloudconvert.com.
cloudconvert.com is another online format-converting service for you to convert about 215 supported formats of video, audio, document, ebook, image and so on. You are allowed to convert KEY file to PowerPoint in this online converter.
Excel For Mac Computer
1Go to cloudconvert's page of Key to PPT conversion. In the interface, the online program shows you the main difference between Apple Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint.
2Click the button of 'Select Files' and input your Keynote file.
3Choose 'PPT' as the output format, click the button of 'Start Conversion' and begin turning Keynote to PowerPoint.
Conclusion
This page shows you 3 free ways to convert Keynote to PowerPoint files on Windows or online. Viewing your Keynote presentations on Windows can be done easily. Which way is the best one? You decide it.
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