Guide · 2026-07-26
Excel to PDF — Without the Cut-Off Columns
You email a spreadsheet as PDF and half the columns land on page 7, sideways. Everyone has been there. Converting Excel to PDF is easy; converting it so it actually reads well takes three small decisions. Here's the routine.
The quick conversion
- Open BunnyConvert Excel to PDF.
- Drop your .xlsx in — each sheet becomes a cleanly laid-out table.
- Convert → download. Runs in your browser; your financials never touch a server.
Before converting: three fixes in Excel
- Hide helper columns you don't want in the report (right-click → Hide).
- Shorten headers — "Q3 Revenue (EUR, consolidated)" wraps to 3 lines; "Q3 Rev EUR" doesn't.
- Split giant sheets: a 40-column sheet is a database, not a report. Copy the columns people actually need into a summary sheet and convert that.
Need the reverse? PDF tables back to Excel
Received a PDF price list or bank statement and need it in rows and columns? PDF to Excel extracts the text into a real .xlsx. Works when the PDF has a selectable text layer; scanned documents need OCR first.
Also handy: Excel to CSV for feeding data into scripts and apps, and CSV to Excel for the reverse.