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Excel Viewer

Open .xlsx files instantly without installing Excel.

Preview any workbook in the browser with a fast virtualised grid: switch sheets, sort columns, search across cells and inspect formulas. Nothing is uploaded, so you can safely open files someone emailed you before deciding what to do with them.

Price
Free
Your files
Never uploaded
Runs
In your browser

or drag it here

.xlsx, .xls, .xlsm, .csv, .ods · up to 50 MB · processed locally, never uploaded

Excel and spreadsheet files only. Export from Google Sheets as .xlsx or .csv.

Files stay on your device

What it does well

  • Virtualised grid that stays smooth past 500,000 rows
  • Formula bar showing the underlying formula, not just the cached value
  • Full-text search across every sheet with match highlighting

How to use Excel Viewer

  1. 1

    Drop the file you want to inspect onto the page.

  2. 2

    Switch between sheets with the tab bar.

  3. 3

    Search, sort or filter to find the rows you care about.

  4. 4

    Export the current view to CSV or XLSX if you need it.

Watch a walkthrough

How to use Excel Viewer

2 min 18 s · captions included

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Common problems and fixes

The grid shows numbers where dates should be.

Turn on “Format dates” in the toolbar — some workbooks store dates without a display format, so the raw serial is all that exists in the file.

The tab freezes on a very large file.

Enable streaming mode before opening, which parses sheet by sheet instead of loading the whole workbook into memory at once.

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