# Excel to PDF Converter — XLSX Tables Without Uploading

> Convert an Excel workbook to a PDF table, one section per sheet, in your browser.

To convert Excel to PDF, drop a .xlsx workbook in. Each sheet becomes a table in the PDF with its header row highlighted, and a workbook with several sheets gets a heading per sheet. Cell values are read from the file's XML directly in your browser, so financial data is never uploaded.

**URL:** https://convertto.tech/t/excel-to-pdf
**Category:** PDF Tools (https://convertto.tech/c/pdf-tools)
**Privacy:** Runs entirely in the browser; no upload
**Cost:** Free, no sign-up
**Last updated:** 2026-08-01

## Key facts

- **Privacy:** Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
- **Cost:** Free, unlimited, no sign-up

## How to use

1. Select your excel workbook — the file stays on your device and is never uploaded.
2. Set the maximum rows per sheet.
3. Choose the page size.
4. Choose the orientation.
5. Choose the font.
6. Set the body text size.
7. Set the margin.
8. Set the line spacing.
9. Turn "Add page numbers" on or off as needed.
10. Press Run, then download the result when it is ready.

## FAQ

### Why do my formulas show as values?

Excel stores both the formula and its last-calculated result, and the result is what belongs in a PDF. If a cell shows blank, the workbook was saved without cached values — open and re-save it in Excel and the results will be there.

### Are number and date formats preserved?

Not in this version. Dates are stored as serial numbers in the file and appear as those numbers; currency and percentage formatting is stored separately from the value. Where formatting matters, add a helper column with TEXT() before converting.

### What happens with a very wide sheet?

Columns are given equal width and text that does not fit is truncated with an ellipsis rather than overlapping. Anything wider than eight columns switches automatically to landscape, and beyond about fifteen columns a PDF is the wrong destination — export to CSV instead.

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