Word to Excel
Pull the tables out of a Word document into an Excel workbook, one sheet per table. Runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
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About the Word to Excel
Extract the tables from a Word document (.docx) into an Excel workbook, one sheet per table. Everything runs inside this page on your own device, so a contract or a report full of real figures is never uploaded.
Tables are what this converts, and that is a deliberate limit rather than a shortcoming. A Word document's prose has no rows and no columns, so a converter that turns paragraphs into spreadsheet rows produces something worse than the document it came from — one long column of sentences. A table in Word is already a grid, and moving a grid to a grid loses nothing. A document with no tables is reported as having none rather than being flattened into nonsense.
Three details are handled that a naive extraction gets wrong. Merged cells are padded out across the columns they span, so the values after them stay under the right headings instead of shifting left. Field codes and tracked deletions are left out — both hold text that nobody can see in Word, and including it reads as the converter inventing data. And a table nested inside a cell becomes its own sheet rather than having its rows spliced into the table containing it.
Line breaks and tabs inside a cell survive as themselves, because a cell written across two lines means two lines — collapsing them runs the last word of one into the first word of the next.
How to use the Word to Excel
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Choose your document
Drop a .docx file onto the box or click to pick one. Several documents can be queued and each becomes its own workbook.
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Decide about the header row
Leave it ticked to make each table's first row a bold header, which is almost always what a Word table's first row is.
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Convert
Every table in the document becomes a sheet, in the order they appear. The row on screen tells you how many were found.
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Download the workbook
The .xlsx appears on the row, named after your document.
Frequently asked questions
Is my document uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is unpacked and read entirely inside your browser and nothing is sent to a server. You can disconnect from the internet once the page has loaded and it will keep working exactly as before, which matters for the contracts and reports this tool is usually pointed at.
Why does it only convert tables?
Because prose has no rows or columns. A converter that turns paragraphs into spreadsheet rows produces one long column of sentences, which is less useful than the document you started with. A Word table is already a grid, so moving it to a spreadsheet loses nothing — and a document with no tables is reported as such rather than flattened into nonsense.
What happens to merged cells?
A cell spanning three columns occupies three columns in the output, with the value in the first and the rest left empty. Emitting a single cell would shift every value after it one place left and quietly misalign the whole row against its header.
Are tracked changes and field codes included?
No. Deleted text under tracked changes and field instructions such as PAGE are both left out, because neither is visible in Word. Including them would put content in a cell that nobody can see in the original, which reads as the tool inventing data.
What about a table inside a table?
A nested table becomes its own sheet, immediately after the one containing it. Its rows are not spliced into the outer table, which is what happens if cells are read as descendants rather than as direct children — the outer table would silently gain rows that belong to something else.
Can it read an old .doc file?
No, and it says so clearly rather than failing vaguely. The older .doc is an unrelated binary format rather than a variety of .docx. Open it in Word and use Save As to produce a .docx first, which takes seconds and loses nothing.