Excel to Word Converter
Turn an Excel sheet into an editable Word table that keeps its formatting - bold, colors, borders, merged cells and number formats. Preview the pages, then download the .docx. Free, and your file never leaves your browser.
Drop your file here or choose a fileTap to choose a file
Opened on your device - never uploaded · up to 50MB
Supports .xlsx, .xls, .xlsm, .xlsb · or paste a file from your clipboard
How to Convert Excel to Word
- Drop the .xlsx, .xls, .xlsm or .xlsb file into the box above - it is read in your browser.
- Tick the sheets to include. Hidden sheets are listed but left unticked.
- Pick the paper size, orientation and table style while the page preview updates.
- Download the .docx and open it in Word, Google Docs or LibreOffice Writer.
Inside Word there are two other ways: paste for a small range, or Insert Object when the figures must stay live in Excel.
In Word: copy and paste
A range of cells, as an editable table
- In Excel, select the cells and press Ctrl+C (Cmd+C on a Mac).
- In Word, click where the table should go.
- Choose Home > Paste > Keep Source Formatting. Pick Link & Keep Source Formatting instead to have the table update when the workbook changes.
In Word: Insert Object
The workbook embedded, still an Excel sheet
- In Word, go to Insert > Object (in the Text group).
- Open Create from File, click Browse and pick the workbook.
- Tick Link to file to keep it in sync, then click OK. It shows the active sheet and opens Excel when double-clicked - it is not a Word table you can edit in place.
How to Get Data from Excel to Word Automatically
A converted .docx is a snapshot of the sheet. When the Word document has to follow the workbook, link the two inside Office instead:
- Paste Special > Paste link - copy the range in Excel, then in Word choose Home > Paste > Paste Special, select Paste link and Microsoft Excel Worksheet Object. The table follows the workbook: right-click it and choose Update Link, and Word asks whether to update links each time the document opens. Keep the workbook where it is, or the link breaks.
- Mail merge - one letter, label or certificate per row. In Word, go to Mailings > Start Mail Merge, then Select Recipients > Use an Existing List and pick the workbook and sheet. Place columns with Insert Merge Field, check them with Preview Results, and finish with Finish & Merge. The sheet's first row must hold the column names.
Convert Excel to Word Without Losing Formatting
The document is built from the workbook's own styles, not from a screenshot, so what you see in the preview is a real Word table. This is what carries over:
| In Excel | In the Word document |
|---|---|
| Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough | Kept |
| Font colors and cell fills, including theme colors | Kept |
| Borders: thin, medium, thick, double, dashed, dotted | Kept |
| Left, center and right alignment | Kept |
| Merged cells | Kept as merged table cells |
| Number formats such as $1,234.50, 12.5% or 2026-07-17 | Kept exactly as Excel displays them |
| Column widths | Kept in proportion, fitted to the page |
| Hyperlinks to web pages and email | Kept and clickable |
| A merged title row above the table | Becomes a bold title paragraph |
| Hidden rows and columns | Left out, as when Excel prints |
| Hidden sheets | Listed but unticked; tick one to include it |
| Formulas | Their displayed results |
| Charts, images, conditional formatting | Not included |
The document uses Calibri at 10 pt, smaller when a wide sheet has to fit the page, with each sheet's header row repeated on every page. Grid, Minimal and Banded only fill in what the sheet leaves blank: a border or fill set in Excel always wins.
Why Convert a Spreadsheet to Word?
Reports, proposals, contracts and letters live in Word, but the numbers start in Excel. Converting the sheet to a Word table drops the data straight into the document, formatted to match the rest of it, without retyping figures or pasting screenshots that cannot be edited. Because everything runs in your browser, even sensitive figures never leave your device.
How This Compares to Other Excel to Word Converters
Spreadsheet-to-document services make different tradeoffs between editable table data and visual page rendering. This converter produces editable Word tables that keep the sheet's formatting, and shows the pages before you download.
| Tool | Where your file goes | Approach |
|---|---|---|
| ExcelTool.io (this page) | Nowhere - conversion runs on your device | Free and accountless; each chosen sheet becomes an editable DOCX table with its formatting, merged cells and column widths, previewed page by page before download |
| Aspose XLSX to DOCX | Aspose servers; its converter states deletion after 24 hours | Cloud file-format conversion with email/download delivery and sign-in or plan gates shown for larger files and higher usage |
| GroupDocs XLSX to DOCX | GroupDocs servers; uploaded workbooks are deleted after 24 hours | General spreadsheet conversion with three free files per day; batch processing is marked as Premium |
| Convertio XLSX to DOCX | Convertio cloud; input deletion is immediate after conversion and output deletion is within 24 hours | Transfers cell content and basic table layout, while its page says advanced Excel features such as pivot tables are flattened to data |
Excel-to-Word service descriptions checked 2026-07-28 against the linked XLSX-to-DOCX pages; see those services for current plan limits.
DOCX cannot carry a live Excel calculation model. Formula definitions, pivots, charts, conditional formatting, and sheet behavior do not become equivalent Word features. This page therefore exports what each sheet displays - values, number formats and static formatting - as editable tables, and states that limitation plainly; it is for putting data into a document, not for preserving an interactive workbook.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. It is free, needs no account or Microsoft Office, and runs entirely in your browser - your workbook is never uploaded.
Drop the workbook above and download the .docx. Each sheet becomes a Word table that keeps bold, italic, underline, font colors, cell fills (theme colors included), borders, alignment, merged cells and the number formats Excel displays, with column widths kept in proportion. Inside Word itself, the equivalent is copying the range in Excel and pasting with Keep Source Formatting.
Yes. The result is a real Word table, not a picture of the sheet, so you can type in it, restyle it, add rows, or copy it into another document. It opens the same way in Word, Google Docs and LibreOffice Writer.
Yes. Tick the sheets you want. Each one becomes its own section with the sheet name as a heading, starting on a new page, and each can have its own orientation. Hidden sheets are listed but left unticked.
With Orientation on Auto, a sheet whose columns are wider than a portrait page is set landscape so the table stays readable. Pick Portrait to override it; the columns are then scaled down to fit the narrower page.
Wide tables are scaled to the page width and the text steps down from 10 pt to as little as 7 pt so it still fits. Word tables cannot have more than 63 columns, so anything past that is left out and the page tells you. Long tables flow across pages with the header row repeated at the top of each one; rows never split across a page break.
No. Word tables do not calculate, so each formula arrives as the result Excel last displayed. If the numbers must stay live, paste the range into Word with Link & Keep Source Formatting, or use Insert > Object > Create from File with Link to file ticked.
It follows your browser: US Letter if your browser is set to English (United States) or another Letter region, A4 elsewhere. You can switch between them before downloading, and the preview redraws on the new paper.
Yes. Upload the .docx to Google Drive and open it with Google Docs; the tables, merged cells, fills and borders carry over. You can also keep it as a Word file in Drive.
The preview lays the pages out in your browser with the same widths, margins and font sizes as the document, but browsers and Word measure text slightly differently. A page break can move by a row or so; nothing else changes.
No. The workbook is read and the Word document is written by JavaScript on this page. Nothing is sent to a server, so confidential figures stay on your device.