Microsoft Office apps, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, are now offered for free. You can go to download them on to your Android and iOS devices from Google Play Store and Apple iTunes Store. Now you can upload Excel workbooks from computer to your mobile phone, then open, view and edit Excel workbooks on the phone. By default Excel workbooks will be created and saved as .xlsx files. With Excel files in this format however you may run into compatibility issues when you transfer, share the Excel files with someone who does not have Office or Excel app installed on their computer, smartphone or tablet. To help you fix this issue, Microsoft has add a new “Send as PDF” feature to the Office apps for both iOS devices and Android devices. In this demo, we will show how to convert Excel to PDF on Android phone. If you want to convert Word document, check out this tutorial to convert Word to PDF on Android mobile phone. Following instructions apply to various Android phones with the latest Excel app installed, these devices include but not limited to Samsung galaxy phones, LG phones, Xiaomi phones, Lenovo phones, Nexus, Huawei phones, etc.
How to convert Excel to PDF on Android phone?
Go to download Excel app from Google play store or other Android market on to your phone if not yet. Then run it on your phone and open the Excel spreadsheet which you like to convert. Touch the Menu icon (three vertical lines) at the top left corner, you will get its main menu like this on your mobile phone screen.
Select Share from Excel main menu, you will open the Excel Share dialogue like below. How would you like to share Excel worksheet? You can choose to share Excel spreadsheet as link or as attachment.
Choose the second option to proceed from above screen, you can then see the Share as attachment screen on your mobile phone. Currently Excel app for Android allows you to transfer Excel documents as Workbook or PDF.
In this guide, we are going to convert Excel workbook to PDF, so select PDF here. Now we come to the place or step where we have the option to convert Excel to PDF format. In the Share as PDF screen, you will see the prompt message: Allow Excel to convert this file to a PDF using an online service from Microsoft? Make sure you are connected to the internet on the phone, then press Allow button, the Excel will convert the Excel from xlsx to PDF file format with all content in the original Excel file retained.
The Excel converting process may take a while. After that you will be presented with a list of all compatible apps or tools on your phone that you can send the convert PDF file with, such as email, WhatsApp, WeChat app, Skype, Viber and many others.
How to Save converted PDF file to Android phone from Excel app?
If you choose an installed chat app on your Android phone, make sure to select yourself as the recipient, so you can receive the attached PDF file in the chat app on your phone. After that find the chat conversation in the chat app, open and save the PDF file using compatible app on the phone. We recommend you to attach the PDF file to an email on your mobile phone, then save the email with attached PDF as draft, run the mail app, locate this draft email, you can open the PDF in compatible apps or save it to your phone’s internal storage or SD card from there.