Excel to PDF
Turn a spreadsheet into a clean, printable PDF — every sheet included.
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How to convert Excel to PDF
- Drop one .xlsx, .xls or .csv file onto the box above. One workbook is converted at a time.
- Pick the page orientation. Landscape is selected by default because spreadsheets are wider than they are tall; switch to Portrait for narrow lists of two or three columns.
- Press Convert to PDF. Each sheet is redrawn as a bordered table under a heading carrying its own name, with a page break before each new sheet.
- Download the finished file. It is laid out on A4 pages and keeps the workbook's name, so budget-2026.xlsx arrives as budget-2026.pdf.
What people use it for
A PDF is what you send when the numbers are final and you do not want the recipient re-sorting a column or editing a cell by accident. It also opens on any device without a spreadsheet program installed, and it prints the same way everywhere — which is why so many offices ask for the PDF rather than the workbook.
- Sending a quote, an invoice or a price list to a client who should read it, not edit it.
- Attaching a monthly report to an email so it opens on a phone without Excel or Numbers.
- Printing a stock count, a rota or a delivery list for people working away from a screen.
- Turning a CSV exported from an online system into something readable enough to file.
- Preparing one section of a larger pack, then joining it to the rest with Merge PDF.
Good to know
Be realistic about what survives the trip. Cell values are kept, along with sheet names and merged cells, but formulas are rendered as the numbers they had already calculated — a PDF cannot recalculate anything, so what you get is a snapshot. Cell colours, conditional formatting, charts, images and print areas are not carried across; you get a plain, evenly bordered table. A genuinely wide sheet of twenty or thirty columns will still be squeezed or broken across pages even in landscape, so it is worth hiding the columns you do not need first. Pages are drawn as a high-resolution image of the table, so the layout is exactly what you saw, but the text inside the PDF cannot be selected or searched.
The conversion is done entirely by this page in your browser: the workbook is read from your disk, rendered locally and handed back as a download. Nothing is transmitted, which matters more than usual for spreadsheets, since they tend to hold salaries, customer lists and margins that should not sit on a stranger's server. If the file contains no sheets, or every sheet is empty, the tool says so plainly instead of producing a blank document. Once you have the PDF you can shrink it with Compress PDF, and a text document can be converted the same way with Word to PDF.
Questions people ask
Are all the sheets in my workbook included?
Yes. Every sheet that contains rows is converted, each starting on a new page with its name as a heading. Empty sheets are skipped, and the status message tells you how many were converted.
Will my formulas still work in the PDF?
No, and no PDF can do that. Formulas are printed as their last computed result. If a value looks wrong, recalculate in your spreadsheet program first, save, and convert again.
My table is very wide. What can I do?
Stay in landscape, and before converting hide the columns you do not need, shorten long headers, or split the sheet in two. Very wide tables are otherwise compressed to fit the page width.
Does it work with CSV files?
It does. A CSV is read as a single sheet and drawn as one table — a convenient way to make an export from an accounting or shop system presentable without opening Excel at all.