Microsoft Excel is definitely the most flexible all-around program in the extremely popular Office suite, and for a timespan lasting for several decades undeniably one of the most used programs in the world. The intricate outlay of columns and cells, with the accompanying convoluted set of mathematical formulas can be harnessed for a multitude of different operations, and for this reason Excel is loved by so many professions, and also heavily used in education.
Without the need to over-exemplify its positive characteristics, we will centre our attention on a particular issue that arises while sharing Excel documents between devices and computers.
Because every operating system (no matter if it’s found on a smartphone, tablet or a computer) has its own individual unique way of interpreting the data inside of each file, some rather serious complications can happen if you send an Excel file that was created on a Windows computer for instance, to a device that uses Macintosh, or Linux. The file will be shown with certain glitches and errors (sometimes it will be utterly unviewable), which of course can be a great problem if the file you’re sending/receiving is important in any way.
The way to overcome this is to convert the Excel file to PDF before sending, which can be done from Excel itself (located in the “Save As” subsection). The Portable Document File (PDF) is an exception when it comes to viewability, being displayed on every device and OS perfectly. Its only flaw is that it cannot be edited in a traditional manner, because all PDF files are read-only in nature. It requires software that can extract all data from it, and recreate the original Excel file that was used to make the PDF in the first place.
Sometimes it can be quite difficult to find a proper free online tool that offers good results, just because there are so many available. Because of this we wanted to share with you a great find, that’s designed specifically for the task of converting PDFs to Excel.
It doesn’t require any kind of private information from a user (or any login details), and the overall process is very short-lasting, leaving you with more time to deal with your business.
With PDF to Excel you can upload the file either from your hard drive, or directly from the cloud, using Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox.
Once you’ve chosen the file, the conversion will start by itself, and the progress will be shown like in the image below. The time needed for the tool to finish is usually under one minute, but it can be slightly prolonged if the file is colossal, or if there’s a great number of people using the tool at that given time.
After the conversion is complete, a download button will appear, and that’s about it. Download the Excel file and make all the necessary adjustments you previously wanted to but couldn’t.
