Turn TSV spreadsheets into XLS. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop TSV files here
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Drop TSV files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the XLS, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The TSV to XLS converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your spreadsheets are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
TSV is less widely recognised by double-click than CSV or XLSX. XLS opens in copies of Excel older than 2007. TSV is at home in tabular data whose values contain commas; XLS is the usual choice for compatibility with very old copies of Excel.
Numbers and true/false in the cells become real spreadsheet values rather than text, and the data lands on one sheet named Sheet1. The old XLS format holds at most 65,536 rows and 256 columns per sheet; a bigger table is refused and the page says so (XLSX has no such limit in practice).
TSV is the same idea as CSV with tabs between values, which avoids quoting problems when the data itself contains commas. It is common in scientific and export tooling.
Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, databases and any text editor
TSV converterXLS is the binary workbook format Excel used until 2007. It is limited to 65,536 rows per sheet and is treated as a legacy format today.
Opens in Excel and LibreOffice Calc
XLS converter| TSVTSV spreadsheet | XLSExcel 97–2003 workbook | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Tab-Separated Values | Excel 97–2003 Workbook |
| Type | Plain-text table | Spreadsheet workbook (binary) |
| Compression | None | None |
| Introduced | The 1970s, by no single author (registered with IANA in 1993) | 1997, by Microsoft |
| Opens in | Excel, Google Sheets, databases and any text editor | Excel and LibreOffice Calc |
| Best for | Tabular data whose values contain commas | Compatibility with very old copies of Excel |
| File extension | .tsv, .tab | .xls |
No. The TSV to XLS conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
The values are kept. Anything XLS has no way to express, such as formatting, formulas or nesting, is simplified or left out.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the TSV file, press Convert and save the XLS. There is nothing to install.
Yes. Data files up to 300 MB are accepted; a larger file is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.