XLS to ZIP Converter
Select files for conversion or just drag and drop them to the upload area
How to convert XLS files to ZIP 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 ZIP
Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
Step 3.
Download your ZIP
When the conversion process is complete, you can download the ZIP file.
Information about XLS and ZIP file formats
| Name | XLS | ZIP |
| Full name | XLS - Microsoft Excel Binary File Format | ZIP - ZIP Archive |
| File extension | .xls | .zip, .zipx |
| MIME type | application/vnd.ms-excel | application/zip |
| Developed by | Microsoft | Phil Katz, PKWARE, Inc. |
| Type of format | Spreadsheet | Data compression |
| 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". | ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A .ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The .ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common. |
| Technical details | OpenOffice.org has created documentation of the Excel format. Since then Microsoft made the Excel binary format specification available to freely download. | ZIP files are archives that store multiple files. .ZIP allows contained files to be compressed using many different methods, as well as simply storing a file without compressing it. Each file is stored separately, allowing different files in the same archive to be compressed using different methods. |
| File conversion | XLS conversion | ZIP conversion |
| Associated programs | Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Kingsoft Office, Google Docs. | Microsoft Windows, WinZip, WinRAR, IZarc, Info-ZIP, 7-Zip, PeaZip, B1 Free Archiver, DotNetZip. |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#File_formats | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format) |