Edit Excel files online without Microsoft Office
You don’t need a Microsoft 365 subscription or a desktop copy of Excel to work with a spreadsheet. Excel Editor Online gives you a full spreadsheet grid, a formula bar and the formatting tools you already know, inside any modern web browser. Open an XLSX file, edit it and download a new workbook that opens in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc or Apple Numbers.
Why use a browser-based Excel editor?
- Nothing to install. The editor loads like any web page, so it works on computers where you can’t install software, such as school, library or work machines.
- No account or upload. Many online spreadsheet tools ask you to sign in and upload your workbook to cloud storage first. Here, your file is read directly by your browser.
- Fast for quick jobs. Fixing a typo, updating a price or adding a row takes seconds instead of waiting for a desktop app to start.
- One tool for every format. Open
.xlsx,.xlsm,.xls,.ods,.csvand.tsvfiles in the same place, then save as.xlsxor CSV.
Excel formulas and functions you can use
The built-in calculation engine supports more than 150 Excel functions and recalculates every dependent cell as soon as you change a value. Start typing after = and the editor suggests matching functions and shows each argument as you go. Supported functions include:
- Math and statistics: SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, COUNT, COUNTA, ROUND, ROUNDUP, MEDIAN, STDEV, LARGE, SMALL, RANK, SUMPRODUCT and SUBTOTAL
- Conditional totals: SUMIF, SUMIFS, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIF, AVERAGEIFS, MAXIFS and MINIFS
- Logic: IF, IFS, IFERROR, IFNA, AND, OR, NOT, XOR, SWITCH and CHOOSE
- Lookup and reference: VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH, OFFSET, INDIRECT, ROW and COLUMN
- Text: CONCAT, TEXTJOIN, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, TRIM, UPPER, LOWER, PROPER, SUBSTITUTE, FIND, SEARCH, TEXT and VALUE
- Date and time: TODAY, NOW, DATE, YEAR, MONTH, DAY, WEEKDAY, EDATE, EOMONTH, DATEDIF, NETWORKDAYS and WORKDAY
- Finance: PMT, PV, FV, NPER, NPV and IRR
Relative and absolute cell references (A1, $A$1) work just as they do in Excel – press F4 while editing a formula to switch between them – and references to other sheets such as Sheet2!B4 are supported too.
Formatting, worksheets and data tools
Make your workbook easy to read with bold, italic, underline and strikethrough text, font sizes and families, text and fill colours, cell borders, horizontal and vertical alignment, wrapped text and merged cells. Number formats cover currency, accounting, percentages, decimals, scientific notation, dates, times and durations.
To organise larger tables, freeze the top row or first column, sort a range from A to Z or Z to A, add a filter to show only the rows you need, and use find and replace to update values across the sheet. You can insert, delete, hide and resize rows and columns, and drag the fill handle to continue number, date and month series.
Edit Excel files on Windows, Mac, Chromebook and mobile
Because it runs in the browser, the editor works the same way on Windows, macOS, ChromeOS and Linux in Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox and Safari. On an iPhone, iPad or Android device you can open a spreadsheet from your files app, make changes and download the result. That makes it a practical Excel viewer and editor for Chromebooks and Macs that don’t have Microsoft Office installed.
How it compares with other online spreadsheet tools
| Excel Editor Online | Excel for the web | Google Sheets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free with a Microsoft account | Free with a Google account |
| Account needed | No | Yes | Yes |
| Where your file goes | Stays on your device | Uploaded to OneDrive | Uploaded to Google Drive |
| Real-time collaboration | No | Yes | Yes |
| Charts and pivot tables | No | Yes | Yes |
| Download as .xlsx | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Choose Excel for the web or Google Sheets when you need to co-author a file with colleagues. Choose Excel Editor Online when you want to edit an Excel file quickly and privately, without signing in or storing your data in someone else’s cloud.
Your spreadsheets stay private
Your files are never uploaded. Opening, editing, calculating and saving all happen on your device, and the spreadsheet libraries and fonts the editor uses are served from this website rather than third-party services. Your current workbook is autosaved only in your own browser so you don’t lose work if you refresh the page. Read our privacy policy for the details.
Good to know before you start
Excel Editor Online focuses on data, formulas and formatting. It doesn’t support charts, images, pivot tables, conditional formatting, data validation or VBA macros, and it can’t open password-protected workbooks. When you edit a workbook that uses those features, keep your original file and use the editor for the changes you need to make.