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CSV to Excel Converter – Convert CSV Online (Free Tool)

Convert CSV files to Excel format (.xlsx). Create formatted Excel spreadsheets from CSV data.

Example Output

Real .xlsx workbook with inferred number/date/boolean column types, generated locally in your browser.

orders.csv (12,400 rows, comma-delimited with quoted addresses)
orders.xlsx — typed columns, header row, opens directly in Excel

What is CSV to Excel Converter?

Convert CSV files to real Microsoft Excel workbooks (.xlsx) right in your browser — no upload, no account, no row limits beyond what fits in memory. The converter follows RFC 4180 quoting rules, auto-detects delimiters, and infers numeric/date/boolean column types so Excel opens the result as a properly typed spreadsheet instead of a wall of text.

Why use this tool?

  • Stable behavior across visits — no surprise version drift
  • Your data stays private — all processing happens locally in the browser
  • No telemetry, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts
  • Built on SheetJS / pdf.js / OOXML — the same libraries used by serious desktop tools
  • Auto-detects encoding (UTF-8, Shift_JIS, GBK, Vietnamese) for CSV imports

How to use

  1. Upload or paste your CSV data
  2. Preview the data in the table
  3. Click "Convert to Excel" button
  4. Download the .xlsx file

Examples

Sales export from a SaaS dashboard

A 50k-row CSV with mixed numeric, date, and currency columns becomes a typed .xlsx — pivot tables and SUM() work without retyping any column.

Quoted multi-line fields

Customer addresses wrapped in double quotes containing commas and newlines are parsed correctly per RFC 4180 — one cell per address, no row drift.

Bulk product catalogue

A pipe-delimited inventory file is converted by selecting the pipe delimiter; output keeps leading zeros on SKU codes by forcing the column to text.

Common use cases

  • Importing analytics exports (Stripe, Google Analytics, Shopify) into Excel for reporting
  • Sharing data with non-technical teammates who only have Excel
  • Preparing CSV downloads for upload into accounting software that requires .xlsx
  • Quickly inspecting large CSVs in Excel without breaking column types
  • Converting database dumps for offline analysis

Troubleshooting

Leading zeros disappear from ID columns (e.g. 00123 → 123)
Force the column to text in the column-type override before converting. CSV is untyped, but Excel auto-coerces numbers — text mode keeps every character literal.
Rows look misaligned after conversion
The delimiter was probably wrong — pick the correct one (comma/semicolon/tab/pipe). Also check that quoted fields use straight " and not curly " " quotes.
Date column shows as a number
Excel stored it as a serial number — format the column as Date in Excel, or pre-format the CSV dates as ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) so the converter recognises them.

Frequently Asked Questions

Upload your CSV file or paste the data, preview the parsed columns, and click Convert to Excel. The tool generates a real .xlsx file ready to open in Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice.

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