Excel to PDF
Excel to PDF reads every sheet in your workbook and lays the cells out as a paginated table. Pick which sheets to include, portrait or landscape, and whether to repeat the header row on each page. Formulas are exported as their calculated values; cell colours and conditional formatting are not carried over.
1 Add your file
Enter the open password to use it here. It is checked in your browser and never sent anywhere.
2 Choose your options
Your cells are laid out as a fresh, readable table rather than a photograph of Excel. That means formulas appear as their calculated values, and cell fills, conditional formatting, charts, merged cells and frozen panes are not reproduced. Column widths are recalculated to fit the page. If you need the workbook to look exactly as it does on screen, print to PDF from Excel; if you need the data in a tidy PDF table, this is faster and never uploads your figures.
How to excel to PDF
Add your workbook
Drop in an .xlsx, .xls, .csv or .tsv. The sheet list appears so you can choose what to include.
Pick sheets and layout
Landscape A4 suits most tables. Turn on repeating headers for anything that runs past one page.
Download the PDF
Each sheet becomes a paginated table, built in your browser.
The hard part is pagination, not conversion
A spreadsheet has no pages. It is an unbounded grid, and converting it to PDF means deciding where to cut that grid into sheets of paper — which is why the same workbook can produce a tidy two-page document or forty pages of orphaned columns depending on settings that live in the spreadsheet itself.
Orientation, scaling and the choice of which rows repeat as headers do more for the result than anything the converter can decide on your own behalf.
A worked example
A budget with fourteen columns converts into a document where columns one to nine are on page 1 and the remaining five sit alone on page 2, with no labels. Setting the sheet to landscape and scaling to fit one page wide puts the table back together; marking the header row to repeat keeps the column names visible on every page after the first.
Limitations worth knowing
- Column widths, print area and scaling come from the workbook. Set them there before converting rather than expecting the conversion to guess.
- Formulas are converted to their current displayed values — a PDF has no calculation engine.
- Charts and conditional formatting are rendered as they appear; interactivity such as filters and slicers is lost.
- Very wide tables need landscape orientation or fit-to-width scaling, or columns will spill onto pages of their own.
- Hidden rows, columns and sheets stay hidden, which is worth checking before sending — hidden does not mean removed in the source file.
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Excel to PDF — frequently asked questions
They appear as their calculated values, which is what you want in a PDF. The formula text itself is not shown.
They are not carried over. This tool lays out cell data as a table. Copy a chart into a document and use Word to PDF if you need the picture.
Switch to landscape, move up to A3, or drop the text size to 6 or 7 points. Very wide tables are genuinely hard to put on paper — sometimes splitting the columns across two exports is the honest answer.
Yes. Every sheet gets a checkbox once the workbook loads. Untick the ones you do not want.
Yes. The delimiter is detected automatically, including semicolon-separated files exported by European locales, and tab-separated .tsv.
No. The workbook is parsed and the PDF is built entirely in this browser tab. Nothing about your figures reaches us.