XLS to TSV Converter

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XLS

XLS is the older binary spreadsheet format of Microsoft Excel, used up to Excel 2003. It stores worksheets, formulas, formatting, and charts but is limited to 65,536 rows and 256 columns per sheet. XLS is still read by most spreadsheet apps, but XLSX has replaced it.

TSV

TSV (Tab-Separated Values) is a plain-text format for tables. Each line is a row and the columns are separated by tab characters, which avoids problems with commas inside values. TSV does not store formulas, formatting, or multiple sheets.

What happens when XLS becomes TSV

Source format

XLS is the older binary Excel workbook format with legacy size and feature constraints.

Target format

TSV stores tabular rows as tab-delimited plain text.

What changes

Records and values are parsed from XLS and serialized using TSV syntax and data types.

What is preserved
Data values and record relationships are preserved where XLS and TSV have equivalent types.
What may be lost
Comments, key order, formatting, formulas, styles, namespaces, or type annotations may be lost when TSV cannot represent them.
Codec and quality implications
This is a structural conversion rather than a visual quality setting; verify types, delimiters, encodings, and row counts in the output.
Realistic limitations
Malformed syntax, mixed encodings, unsupported nesting, or values outside the target type range can prevent an accurate conversion.

Conversion steps

  1. Upload a XLS file no larger than 1 GB.
  2. Confirm that TSV is selected as the target.
  3. Start the conversion. A healthy compatible worker begins processing immediately.
  4. Download the TSV file and check the result before deleting your source.

Troubleshooting

The XLS file is rejected or will not open.
Confirm that the file is not empty, password-protected, or corrupt and that its real format matches the extension.
The TSV file is larger than expected.
Choose a more efficient codec or lower quality setting when available. Lossless and uncompressed targets are often larger by design.

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