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Microsoft Excel Legacy.xls

Spreadsheetapplication/vnd.ms-excel

XLS is the legacy Excel format (pre-2007) — still encountered in business workflows.

Advantages

  • •Legacy compatibility
  • •Wide support
  • •Simple structure

Limitations

  • •Binary format
  • •Limited rows (65K)
  • •Superseded by XLSX

Convert XLS to Other Formats

Convert your .xls files to any of these 15 formats:

XLS → CSVXLS → XLSXXLS → XLSMXLS → XLTXXLS → ODSXLS → FODSXLS → TSVXLS → DBFXLS → DIFXLS → SLKXLS → PDFXLS → HTMLXLS → JSONXLS → XMLXLS → YAML

Convert Other Formats to XLS

Convert any of these 13 formats to .xls:

CSV → XLSXLSX → XLSXLSM → XLSXLTX → XLSODS → XLSFODS → XLSTSV → XLSDBF → XLSDIF → XLSSLK → XLSPRN → XLSSXC → XLSXLSB → XLS
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