How to Convert an Excel File into PDF

This tutorial is about how to convert an Excel file into PDF conveniently, directly in Excel, so that you wouldn’t need to install any new software on your computer.

You can conveniently convert your data into a PDF file directly in Excel. And there’s more than one way to do it. Today, we’re gonna go through the quickest one.

Sounds interesting? Let’s have a look!

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Quickest Way How to Convert an Excel File into PDF

First, we need to access the File menu located on the horizontal bar at the top of the screen.

So, click on ‘File’ and select ‘Export’.

Then click on the button ‘Create PDF/XPS’.

Here, you’ll get asked where you want to save the PDF file you’re about to create. Choose a location on your computer, amend the file name as needed, and let’s have a look at some more advanced settings that are available when creating a PDF.

Advanced Settings Available when Creating PDF

Ideally, you’ll keep this ‘Open file after publishing’ box selected – Excel will open the PDF file immediately after it’s been created and you can check easily whether everything looks fine in it.

You can also optimise the file through these two options – if you need to print a high-quality document and it doesn’t really matter how large it is, choose the option ‘Standard’.

If you want to keep the file size to minimum, go for ‘Minimum size’.

We’ll select ‘Standard’ now, and we’ll move on.

When you click on ‘Options’ below, you can review and set further options.

For example, you can choose which pages to include in the PDF – whether there should be all or just a selected range of the spreadsheet.

Also, you can specify whether the PDF file should be published from a selection you choose, or from the active sheet or sheets, or even the entire workbook.

If you’ve previously set ‘Print Area’ and you don’t want to use this setting when publishing the PDF file, you can simply ignore it by selecting ‘Ignore Print Areas‘ box below.

Let’s carry on.

If the box ‘Document properties’ is selected, the created PDF will maintain the properties of the source Excel file.

Checked ‘Documents structure tags for accessibility’ box means that the PDF file will make it easier for screen-reading software to read and navigate the document.

And the last option, ‘PDF/A’, will help you with archiving documents in compliance with ISO standards.

Once you’ve read through all the options and selected the ones you want, click on OK and then on Publish.

And we’re there! Here’s your PDF file!

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