Some spreadsheet programs like Excel, Corel Quattro Pro or similar still support the old Navy DIF file format (.dif) and thus should be able to re-save it (convert) to a Excel .xls document. In any case, this will just transfer the data, it is unlikely that any formatting is present in .dif files.
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Conversion of dif file format to xls file format beta
Search for dif to xls converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Navy DIF spreadsheet to Microsoft Excel 97 to 2003 workbook.
We have found 8 software records in our database eligible for .dif to .xls file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert dif to xls on Windows
Microsoft Excel
A popular spreadsheet application distributed with Microsoft Office suite
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from dif file | No | Yes | Yes | dif editor | No | No | No | No |
to xls file | Yes, Microsoft Excel supports xls file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | Yes | xls editor | Yes | No | No | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned dif to xls. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
Corel Quattro Pro
A spreadsheet software application from Corel
PlanMaker
A handy spreadsheet editor from SoftMaker Office suite
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert dif to xls on macOS
Microsoft Excel for Mac
A popular spreadsheet application from the Microsoft Office suite
NeoOffice
A full-featured set of office applications for Mac
Linux/Unix software 
- convert dif to xls on Linux
Gnumeric
An open-source spreadsheet program
Multiplatform software 
- convert dif to xls on any platform
LibreOffice Calc
Full-featured spreadsheet tool from LibreOffice suite
Apache OpenOffice Calc (OpenOffice.org Calc)
Spreadsheet program from OpenOffice.org productivity suite
Additional links: Open dif file, Open xls file
DIF
Files with dif extension may be found as very old spreadsheets in the NAVY Data Interchange Format. Somewhat rare nowadays.
XLS
Files with xls extension are best known as spreadsheets from Microsoft Excel. A spreadsheet is basically a grid of cells sorted in rows and columns. Each cell can contain text, numeric or formula data. Excel XLS spreadsheets can be opened in most other similar programs, such as OpenOffice.org Calc.
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