By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026
Drop a spreadsheet and get a PDF that looks exactly like it would print — borders, colours and number formatting intact.
Works with .xlsx, .xls, .ods and .csv. As an Excel to PDF converter it keeps every border, colour and number format, for a full workbook or a single sheet.
Your file is deleted the moment it's done. The big PDF sites keep your bank statements and IDs on their servers. Here the original goes right after processing, the result after 45 minutes.
The file is opened by a real office engine and printed to PDF, so you get what the print preview would give you: the same fonts, the same cell borders, the same fill colours, the same number and date formatting. Charts and images on the sheet come along too.
That also means the page setup in your file decides the result. A sheet that is wider than a page will be split across pages exactly as it would on paper — if you want it on one page, set the print area or scaling in Excel first, then convert. We would rather tell you that than let you discover it in the download.
Formulas are not recalculated: whatever value was last stored in the cell is what gets printed. That is what any print does, and it means a spreadsheet with stale results prints stale results.
It is an online converter with nothing to install, and the ads keep this PDF converter free: every pass keeps the full formatting, whatever the file size, and it works the same on any device. Any free convert gets the same office engine as the last one, whether the file came from Microsoft Excel, LibreOffice or a CSV export. Like any good PDF converter online free of charge, it never asks for payment, and you get the PDF online free without signing up.
Up to 250 MB per file. Password-protected workbooks are refused — remove the password in the app that knows it, then convert the unlocked copy.
Your spreadsheet is deleted from the server the moment the PDF exists, and the PDF itself is deleted 45 minutes later. Nothing is shared or used to train anything.
Everything runs on our own servers, and the ads on the page are what keeps that running — nothing here is ever sold, shared, or used to train AI.
This page only goes one way: spreadsheet in, PDF out. It is not the kind of software PDF Excel converter vendors sell for both directions, so a table trapped inside an existing PDF won't come back out here — the "Free, and deleted within 45 minutes" section above links to the tool that does that instead.
For a quick excel pdf conversion — spreadsheet to PDF, not the other way — this is the page to bookmark. A .csv export, sometimes called a comma separated values file, works the same way as an .xlsx: drop it in and it prints the same way any spreadsheet does.
Need the result smaller, or combined with other pages? Convert here first, then run the PDF through compress PDF for a smaller file, or merge PDF to combine it with other documents into one.
Dropping the file above is the whole job, and every Excel file to PDF conversion uses the same office engine, like every other PDF tool on this site. For a workbook with several tabs, every sheet in the print range is included; when only one tab matters, set the print area to that sheet first. The values stored in the cells are never touched.
Converting a Word document instead? Word to PDF works the same way. Got a slide deck ready for sharing? PPT to PDF locks in the layout too.
Compared with the Excel PDF export (Save as PDF inside Excel), the result is the same page setup: print area, scaling, headers and footers, hidden rows and columns all follow your file. The difference is only that you do not need Excel open, or installed, to get it.
Drop the file in above. You get a PDF straight away, with no account, no watermark and no daily limit. That is how to convert Excel to PDF from a full workbook or a single sheet. If you've wondered how can I convert Excel to PDF without Excel installed, the answer is the same, because the conversion runs on our server.
Yes. Cell borders, fill colours and number formats are printed the way your spreadsheet defines them, and common fonts come out as Excel prints them. Workbooks with custom fonts are the one exception: a rare font that isn't installed on our server is replaced by a similar one, so check the PDF if the exact typeface matters. That is how to make Excel in PDF form without anything flattened to plain black and white.
Because it is wider or longer than one page. Set the print area or the scaling in Excel first, then convert; this tool prints your page setup, it does not overrule it. That is how to convert Excel in PDF form without a table breaking across pages.
No. The values stored in the cells are printed, exactly as any print would do.
.xlsx, .xls, .ods and .csv, up to 250 MB (500 MB with a pass). An older .xls prints the same way as an XLSX file, so how to save an Excel file as a PDF doesn't depend on which version made it, and to convert XLSX to PDF the steps are identical.
Yes. Every row becomes a row, printed with default formatting, which is handy for turning an export into something you can send on.
Yes. Only the print range you set in Excel comes through, hidden columns stay hidden, and every tab in the print range becomes its own set of pages in one file. So how to save an Excel sheet as a PDF without hidden columns reappearing, and how to save an Excel spreadsheet as a PDF with several tabs, both come down to your page setup.
Same result: a real office engine opens the file and prints it, so you get the same PDF file as the print preview. Handy when you don't have Excel installed, or want to know how to save Excel as PDF without opening it at all.
No. The file is opened and printed on our server, so you can convert to PDF from a computer, a tablet or a phone without any office software.
They are refused. Remove the password in the app that knows it, then convert the unlocked copy.
No. This converts the whole spreadsheet into PDF pages; it doesn't embed a live, linked sheet inside another document.
The spreadsheet is deleted the moment the PDF exists; the PDF is deleted automatically 45 minutes later.
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