Convert Excel to PDF
Turn a spreadsheet into a PDF.
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Spreadsheets are the hardest thing to share
A document has pages. A spreadsheet does not — it is an unbounded grid, and where the page breaks fall is decided by print settings most people never open. Send an XLSX and the recipient sees it through their own column widths, their own zoom and their own paper size. A PDF fixes all of that.
The failure everyone has seen
A wide sheet converted carelessly splits down the middle: columns A to F on page one, G and H marooned alone on page four, and a reader who cannot follow a single row across.
This happens because the conversion engine's spreadsheet page-setup options are not exposed to it. So this tool takes a different route — before converting, it opens the workbook and writes landscape orientation and fit-to-width directly into each sheet's print settings, then converts. The setting is applied at the source, where it actually takes effect.
Both options are on by default, which is right for most sheets. Turn off fit-to-width if your sheet is narrow and you would rather keep the text at full size.
What comes across
Cell formatting, colours, borders, merged cells, number formats and conditional formatting all convert. Formulas are rendered as their current results, which is what you want in a document meant to be read rather than recalculated.
Very wide sheets
Fit-to-width has a limit. Squeeze forty columns onto one page and the text becomes unreadable. Beyond roughly fifteen or twenty columns, consider hiding what the reader does not need, or splitting into several sheets, rather than shrinking everything.
The other direction
PDF to Excel pulls tables back out, though it has to infer where the cells were.
Common questions
Why do my columns split across pages?
That is the classic spreadsheet conversion failure. Fit-to-width is on by default here to prevent it, applied to the workbook itself.
Are formulas preserved?
They are rendered as their current results. A PDF cannot recalculate.
Does it convert every sheet?
Yes, every sheet in the workbook, each with the page setup applied.
Which formats are accepted?
XLSX, XLS, ODS and CSV.
My sheet is enormous. Will it work?
It converts, but beyond fifteen to twenty columns fit-to-width makes the text very small. Hide columns or split the sheet.
Is conditional formatting kept?
Yes, along with colours, borders and number formats.