It isn’t designed to be a fully-functioning Excel replacement, so certain features might just fail to convert over when you’re editing your Excel documents in Numbers.

Learn how to use Excel’s Allow Edit Ranges feature to assign editable cells, protect data, and streamline collaboration in shared workbooks.

OpenAI is reportedly developing ChatGPT to support .xlsx and .pptx file formats, expected to enable native editing and creation of Excel and PowerPoint documents.

You can have Excel make a spreadsheet in read only format for others, so that people can read its contents but not edit them, or you can enforce other content restrictions.