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To enable them to be used by other applications. If you want to get the data from a spreadsheet into a database, it may need to be converted. If it needs to be used on a different operating system, it may need to be converted. It may be converted into plain text so it can be read for example.

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Converting spread-sheets into different types of file formats is an easy task, but why do we do it? We do it to allow it to be used in another program, for example; if you wanted your data from your spread-sheet into a database, or it needs to be used on a different OS it may need to be converted.

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