Excel to PDF Converter

Excel to PDF

Upload an XLSX, pick the sheets you want in the PDF, choose page size and orientation, and download a tidy PDF ready to attach to an email or drop into a shared drive. The converter honours Excel’s print area, page breaks and print titles, so what you get is close to what the file would print from Excel itself — without needing Excel installed.

How to convert Excel to PDF

  1. 1

    Upload the workbook

    Any XLSX (or legacy XLS) up to about 30 MB.

  2. 2

    Pick sheets to include

    Export one tab, several tabs, or the whole workbook. Selected sheets appear as consecutive sections in the PDF.

  3. 3

    Set the page layout

    Page size (A4, Letter, A3, Legal), orientation (portrait or landscape), scaling (fit to width, fit to one page, custom %).

  4. 4

    Download the PDF

    Your file is generated in seconds. Toggle "draw gridlines" and "include header row on every page" before downloading if needed.

Scaling options

Excel-to-PDF conversions almost always hinge on scaling. The converter offers three modes:

Mode Behaviour Best for
No scaling (100%) One-to-one mapping. Wide sheets break horizontally across pages. Small, already-formatted sheets
Fit to width Scales horizontally so no columns are cut off; rows still paginate naturally. Reports with many columns
Fit to one page Scales the whole sheet to fit on a single page, however small. Dashboards, summary tables
Custom % Scale to a specific percentage, e.g. 75%. Fine-tuning without trial and error

Fit-to-width is usually the right choice for multi-row reports. Fit-to-one-page is tempting but often produces 6pt text that nobody can read.

Paper size reference

Size Dimensions (mm) Use in
A4 210 × 297 Most of the world
Letter 216 × 279 US, Canada, Mexico
Legal 216 × 356 US legal documents
A3 297 × 420 Large tables, posters
A5 148 × 210 Booklets, handouts
Tabloid 279 × 432 US engineering drawings

Things that port over

Things that might not

Headers, footers and page numbers

The Excel-set header/footer text (&P, &N, &D, &F) is honoured, so a footer reading “Page &P of &N” becomes “Page 1 of 5” in the PDF. If your workbook does not define them, the converter can add a default footer with file name, sheet and page number.

Frequently Asked Questions

The default no-scaling mode breaks wide sheets horizontally. Switch to “fit to width” or “custom %” at 80–90% — that usually brings everything onto one set of pages without shrinking the text too much.

Yes. Set a print area in Excel first (Page Layout → Print Area → Set Print Area). The converter honours that range. Alternatively, delete or hide the columns/rows you do not want before uploading.

Charts are rendered server-side to match their on-screen appearance in Excel. Some very custom chart styles — combo charts with secondary axes, waterfall charts with custom formatting — may differ slightly.

Not directly from this converter. Export the PDF first, then use a separate PDF protect tool to add a password. Two-step process, but it keeps each tool focused on one job.

No. The file is processed in-memory, the PDF is delivered, and both are discarded. Nothing is kept on disk.

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