Using Free Online Tools That Can Convert Excel Files to HTML
If you don’t want to bother installing or paying for add-ins for Excel, you can use a free online tool that can convert Excel files to HTML without the need to download or install anything on your computer. An online tool is a web application that can be accessed through any web browser and can perform various functions or tasks easily and quickly. There are many online tools available for various purposes, including converting Excel to HTML.
One of the online tools we can recommend to convert Excel to HTML is Convertio, which is an online file conversion tool that supports more than 3000 different file formats. Convertio can convert Excel files to HTML with the following steps:
- Open the Convertio website in your web browser.
- On the main page of Convertio, click the Choose Files button to select the Excel files you want to convert to HTML from your computer. You can also drag and drop the Excel file to the area indicated by the button. In addition, you can also select Excel files from other sources, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or URL, by clicking on the corresponding icon to the right of the Choose Files button.
- Once you select an Excel file, Convertio will upload the file to its servers and detect the file format automatically. To the right of the file name, you’ll see a drop-down box indicating the original file format and destination file format. Make sure the original file format is XLS, XLSX, or ODS (depending on your Excel file type), and the destination file format is HTML. Otherwise, you can change it by clicking the drop-down box and selecting the appropriate format from the available list.
- If you want to convert more than one Excel file at a time to HTML, you can repeat steps 2 and 3 for each Excel file you want to convert. Convertio can convert up to 100 files at once, with a maximum size of 100 MB per file.
- Once you’re ready to convert the Excel file to HTML, click the Convert button in the bottom-right corner of the page. Convertio will start the conversion process and show the progress with a green bar below the file name.
- Once the conversion process is complete, you will see a Download button to the right of the file name. Click the button to save the converted HTML file to your computer. You can also save the HTML file to another source, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or email, by clicking the corresponding icon to the right of the Download button.
After that, you will have an HTML file containing your Excel data in the form of tables or graphs (if any). This HTML file can be opened with any web browser, or pasted into your website or blog by using the appropriate HTML code. You can also edit this HTML file with any text editor if you want to make changes to the data or its appearance.
Some of the advantages of this method are:
- You can convert Excel to HTML very simply and for free, without the need to install or pay anything on your computer.
- You can convert various Excel file types to HTML, including XLS, XLSX, and ODS, by automatically detecting the file format.
- You can convert multiple Excel files at once to HTML, with a maximum size of 100 MB per file.
However, there are some limitations and disadvantages of this method as well, namely:
- You need to have a stable and fast internet connection to use this online tool because the conversion process is done on the server of that online tool, not on your computer.
- You can’t control many aspects of the converted HTML file, such as the size, color, font, layout, or style of tables or graphics. You’ll need to edit the HTML code manually if you want to customize the look of your HTML file.
- You cannot preserve your Excel formulas or comments when converting to HTML. All formulas and comments will be ignored when converting to HTML.
If you’re looking for a more advanced and flexible way to convert Excel to HTML, with certain criteria that you want to define yourself, you might want to try the next method.