Are formulas preserved?

Their results are. The PDF shows the calculated values, exactly as printing from Excel would — the formulas themselves are not visible or recoverable from the PDF.

How are dates and currency values handled?

They're rendered as Excel-formatted strings — a cell displayed as '15/03/2026' or '$1,200.00' in Excel appears that way in the PDF, not as a raw serial number.

What happens with very wide spreadsheets?

Columns are sized to share the A4 page width, capped so they stay readable. Sheets with many columns get narrow columns with wrapped text, and columns that physically can't fit on the page are cut off. For wide data, consider splitting the sheet or exporting a landscape PDF from Excel itself.

Is cell formatting like colors, borders, and merged cells reproduced?

No — the output is a clean uniform table, not a visual replica. Merged cells are read by their value but lose the merge. If exact styling matters, Excel's own Save as PDF is the right tool; this converter is for fast, private, no-install conversion.

Why did I get an error about unsupported characters?

The PDF renderer's built-in fonts cover Latin-script text only. If any cell contains Cyrillic, CJK, Arabic, or similar scripts, the tool stops with a clear message naming the sheet rather than printing broken glyphs.

Excel → PDF

Convert Excel spreadsheets to PDF entirely in your browser.

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Max 50MB per file · Up to 5 files

About Excel to PDF

Spreadsheets are working documents; PDFs are statements of record. Converting an .xlsx to PDF is how you share figures with people who shouldn't (or needn't) edit them — a price list for customers, a budget summary for a meeting, a final grade sheet, an inventory snapshot for the auditors.

Convertora reads Excel files with SheetJS directly in your browser and renders the cell data as clean PDF tables. Every sheet in the workbook is converted: each one starts on a new A4 page with the sheet name as a title, the first row styled as a bold header, and light separator lines between rows. Values appear the way Excel displays them — dates as formatted dates rather than serial numbers, and formulas as their calculated results.

How to use it

1Upload up to five .xlsx or .xls files (50MB each).
2The workbook is parsed locally and every sheet's cell values are read, with dates and number formats rendered as Excel would display them.
3Each sheet is laid out as a table: sheet name as a heading, first row in bold, equal-width columns, and rows flowing across as many pages as needed.
4Cells with long content wrap onto multiple lines, and the whole row grows to match its tallest cell.
5Each file downloads as a PDF with the same base name.

Common use cases

Distributing a price list, rate card, or product catalog that recipients shouldn't modify.
Attaching a budget or financial summary to an email in a format that prints predictably.
Archiving monthly spreadsheet snapshots in a stable, future-proof format.
Sharing data with someone who has no spreadsheet software installed.

Frequently asked questions

Tips

Need to go the other direction? PDF to Excel extracts tabular data from digital PDFs back into a spreadsheet.
Delete obsolete sheets from the workbook before converting — every sheet in the file is included in the PDF.

100% private — runs in your browser

Convertora processes everything on your device using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Files never leave your browser, are never uploaded to a server, and are never seen by us or anyone else. The moment you close the tab, the data is gone — there is no temporary cloud copy, no log entry, no retained backup.

Because the work happens locally, processing speed depends on your device — but there are no rate limits, no daily caps, and no file size restrictions beyond what your browser can handle in memory. No signup, no account, no payment. The tool works the same in incognito mode, on a corporate network, or after the page has loaded once, even with the network disconnected.