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Excel to CSV

Export any worksheet to clean, correctly quoted CSV.

Convert .xlsx or .xls to CSV with control over the delimiter, quoting and line endings — the details that decide whether your import script succeeds or throws on row 4,000. UTF-8 with an optional BOM keeps accented characters intact in Excel.

Rating
4.9(4.2K)
Monthly uses
620K
Price
Free

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.xlsx, .xls, .xlsm, .ods · processed locally, never uploaded

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What it does well

  • RFC 4180 compliant quoting for values containing commas and newlines
  • Semicolon and tab delimiters for European locales and database imports
  • Optional UTF-8 BOM so Excel opens accented text correctly

How to use Excel to CSV

  1. 1

    Add the workbook you want to export.

  2. 2

    Choose the sheet, or select “all sheets” to get one CSV per sheet in a zip.

  3. 3

    Set the delimiter (comma, semicolon, tab or pipe) and whether to add a UTF-8 BOM.

  4. 4

    Download your CSV.

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Common problems and fixes

Long numbers like order IDs lose their leading zeros.

Those cells are numeric in the source workbook. Format them as text in Excel first, or enable “Preserve leading zeros” which quotes them on export.

Rows appear duplicated when the CSV is imported elsewhere.

A cell contains a line break that your importer treats as a row break. Switch line ending mode to CRLF and keep quoting enabled.

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What people say

Handled a file with well over 200,000 rows without complaining. That is more than I can say for the desktop add-in we pay for.
Fiona Byrne · Operations Manager ·
The preview before committing is the part that sold me — I could see exactly what excel to csv was going to change before it changed anything.
Tomás Rivera · Operations Manager ·
Exactly what I needed. Excel to CSV used to be a twenty-minute job with a macro I did not trust; now it takes one drag and one click.
Clara Bergman · Research Assistant ·

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