Drop your Excel file
Drag an .xlsx onto the workspace, or click Choose files. It opens on your device; nothing is uploaded.
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Excel to PDF
Drop an .xlsx and get a clean PDF table - every sheet, with the header row repeated on each page, and the text stays selectable. Your spreadsheet never leaves your device.
Drop an Excel file
An .xlsx opens in the workspace on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
xlsx, xls and ods
Step by step
How to turn an Excel spreadsheet into a PDF
Great for budgets, price lists, timetables and reports. There is nothing to install and no sign-up.
It becomes a table
Each sheet turns into a clean, printable table. The header row repeats at the top of every page.
Arrange or add more
Reorder pages, add page numbers, or merge with other files. Sheet pages work like any other page in the workspace.
Download the PDF
Click Download PDF. The numbers and text stay selectable and searchable underneath each page.
Watch it
See how to convert Excel to PDF
Turn an Excel spreadsheet into a clean PDF, no cut-off columns, right in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Why pdf2kit
Turn a spreadsheet into a PDF without uploading it
A budget, a price list or a customer list holds numbers you may not want on someone else's server just to make a PDF. pdf2kit reads your .xlsx and draws it as clean table pages right on your own device, keeps the numbers selectable, and never uploads a thing. It is free, with no account and no watermark. An honest note: It turns your sheet into a clean table of the data - the numbers, text, dates and the row and column layout - so cell colours, charts and exact styling are not reproduced.
FAQ
Excel to PDF: Common questions
Does it look exactly like Excel?
It turns your sheet into a clean table of the data. Cell colours, charts and exact styling are not reproduced, but the numbers, text, dates and the row and column layout all come through, and the header row repeats on every page.
Can I select and search the text?
Yes. The exact cell text sits under each page as an invisible layer, so you can select it, copy it and search it in any PDF reader. It is a real document, not just a picture.
Is my spreadsheet uploaded?
No. The whole thing is read and drawn in the page on your device. Your spreadsheet never leaves your computer, so it stays private.
Which spreadsheet files work?
Excel .xlsx and .xls, and the OpenDocument .ods. A plain CSV or TSV has its own page, CSV to PDF, which makes crisp real text instead of a table picture.
What about a wide sheet with many columns?
It keeps the real column widths and shrinks the page to fit, so every column stays on the page. Numbers and dates show the way the sheet shows them, and each new page repeats the header row.
Can you turn a PDF back into Excel?
Not yet. This tool goes one way, Excel to PDF. To pull the text out of a PDF instead, use PDF to text, which also reads scans.
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