XLS to DOCX Converter
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How to convert XLS files to DOCX online?
Step 1.
Upload XLS-file
Click "Choose File" button to select a xls file on your computer. XLS file size can be up to 50 Mb.
Step 2.
Convert XLS to DOCX
Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
Step 3.
Download your DOCX
When the conversion process is complete, you can download the DOCX file.
Information about XLS and DOCX file formats
| Name | XLS | DOCX |
| Full name | XLS - Microsoft Excel Binary File Format | DOCX - Office Open XML Document |
| File extension | .xls | .docx, .docm |
| MIME type | application/vnd.ms-excel | application/vnd.-openxmlformats-officedocument.-wordprocessingml.-document |
| Developed by | Microsoft | Microsoft |
| Type of format | Spreadsheet | Document file format |
| Description | Microsoft Excel up until 2007 version used a proprietary binary file format called Excel Binary File Format (.XLS) as its primary format. Excel 2007 uses Office Open XML as its primary file format, an XML-based format that followed after a previous XML-based format called "XML Spreadsheet". | The Office Open XML file formats are a set of file formats that can be used to represent electronic office documents. There are formats for word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations as well as specific formats for material such as mathematical formulae, graphics, bibliographies etc. |
| Technical details | OpenOffice.org has created documentation of the Excel format. Since then Microsoft made the Excel binary format specification available to freely download. | Office Open XML documents are stored in Open Packaging Convention (OPC) packages, which are ZIP files containing XML and other data files, along with a specification of the relationships between them. Depending on the type of the document, the packages have different internal directory structures and names. |
| File conversion | XLS conversion | DOCX conversion |
| Associated programs | Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Kingsoft Office, Google Docs. | Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Kingsoft Office, Google Docs. |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#File_formats | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML_file_formats |
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