Turn XLSX spreadsheets into ARROW. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop XLSX files here
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Drop XLSX (Excel) 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 result. When one file produces several ARROW files they come as a single ZIP.
The XLSX to ARROW 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.
XLSX is awkward for scripts, databases and import tools that expect plain text. Arrow is typed and quick for analytics tools to load. XLSX is at home in spreadsheets with formulas, formatting and several sheets; ARROW is the usual choice for passing tables between data tools without conversion cost.
One XLSX can produce several ARROW files; when it does, they are offered together as a ZIP download.
Each column gets one type chosen from all of its values: a column is numeric only if every non-empty cell is a number, and anything mixed, or a value such as a ZIP code with a leading zero, stays text. A workbook with several sheets gives one file per sheet.
XLSX is Excel's format since Office 2007. A workbook can hold many sheets with formulas, formatting and charts. Programs and scripts usually prefer the same data as CSV or JSON.
Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, LibreOffice Calc
XLSX converterArrow files store a table in the same column-wise layout the Arrow library uses in memory, so a program can read the data without parsing it. It is written for speed rather than size. The streaming variant uses the .arrows extension. Feather version 2 is the same file format.
Opens in pandas, Polars, DuckDB, R's arrow package and other analytics tools; not Excel
ARROW converter| XLSXExcel workbook | ARROWApache Arrow table | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Office Open XML Workbook | Apache Arrow IPC file |
| Type | Spreadsheet workbook | Columnar data file |
| Compression | ZIP container of XML | None by default (LZ4 or Zstandard optional) |
| Introduced | 2007, by Microsoft | 2016, by the Apache Software Foundation |
| Opens in | Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, LibreOffice Calc | pandas, Polars, DuckDB, R's arrow package and other analytics tools; not Excel |
| Best for | Spreadsheets with formulas, formatting and several sheets | Passing tables between data tools without conversion cost |
| File extension | .xlsx | .arrow, .arrows |
No. The XLSX to ARROW 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 ARROW 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 XLSX file, press Convert and save the ARROW. There is nothing to install.
Yes. Spreadsheet files up to 150 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.