XLS to RAR Converter
Select files for conversion or just drag and drop them to the upload area
How to convert XLS files to RAR 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 RAR
Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
Step 3.
Download your RAR
When the conversion process is complete, you can download the RAR file.
Information about XLS and RAR file formats
| Name | XLS | RAR |
| Full name | XLS - Microsoft Excel Binary File Format | RAR - RAR Archive |
| File extension | .xls | .rar, .rev, .r00, .r01 |
| MIME type | application/vnd.ms-excel | application/x-rar-compressed |
| Developed by | Microsoft | Eugene Roshal |
| Type of format | Spreadsheet | archive 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". | RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery and file spanning. It was developed by a Russian software engineer, Eugene Roshal and the RAR software is licensed by win.rar GmbH. |
| Technical details | OpenOffice.org has created documentation of the Excel format. Since then Microsoft made the Excel binary format specification available to freely download. | The filename extensions used by RAR are .rar for the data volume set and .rev for the recovery volume set. Previous versions of RAR split large archives into several smaller files, creating a "multi-volume archive". |
| File conversion | XLS conversion | RAR conversion |
| Associated programs | Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Kingsoft Office, Google Docs. | WinRAR, 7-Zip, PeaZip, Unarchiver |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#File_formats | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_(file_format) |