Convert MS Access to Excel
Upload a .mdb or .accdb or .mde file and get back a Excel file. Types are preserved rather than flattened to text. Free, no registration, up to 10MB.
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How your data is typed in Excel
Generated from the converter's own Excel type mapping — this is what it actually emits, not an example.
| Your data | Excel type |
|---|---|
| Whole number | number |
| Decimal (money) | number |
| Floating point | number |
| True / false | boolean |
| Date | date |
| Date and time | date |
| Short text | text |
| Long text | text |
| Binary data | hex text |
Working from an Access database
An Access file is an application as much as a database: tables, but also queries, forms, reports, macros and VBA modules. Only one of those is data, and only that one is something a conversion can carry anywhere else.
- →The tables convert. Saved queries, forms, reports, macros and modules are not data and do not appear in the output - re-create a query as a view in the target if you need it.
- →Access types map to fixed shapes: Currency to DECIMAL(19,4), matching Access's own four fixed decimal places, Decimal to DECIMAL(18,6), Long Integer to a 32-bit integer, Byte and Integer to 16-bit, Memo and Hyperlink to text, OLE and Binary to a blob.
- →If the file cannot be opened at all - a database password, or real damage - the conversion stops with the underlying tool's own error instead of handing you a partial result.
What opens the converted workbook
Choosing Excel as the target puts no copy of Excel anywhere in the process: the workbook is assembled on the server by a library and handed over finished. What that library writes is what decides how the result behaves when you open it.
- →The output is .xlsx, the OOXML format, and only that. There is no .xls option, so a machine that can open nothing newer than Excel 97-2003 needs the CSV target and a save from there instead.
- →Values are the only thing written. No formulas, no macros, no charts, no column widths, no frozen header row - which is why the first thing most people do with it is widen a column. If Excel opens it in Protected View, that is the mark of the web on a downloaded file rather than anything in the workbook.
- →A conversion is capped at a million rows across all of its tables, and a worksheet holds 1,048,576, so no table can ever arrive too tall for the sheet it is being written into.
Reading MS Access
- →Dates are exported in ISO form, avoiding the ambiguous 12/02/21 that Access tools produce by default.
- →NULL and the empty string stay distinct.
- →Access can hold dates outside the range it can represent. Those become NULL and the conversion tells you, rather than dropping them silently.
- →Requires mdbtools on the server; if it is unavailable you get a clear error rather than a partial conversion.
Writing Excel
- →One file per table. Booleans stay booleans and numbers stay numbers.
- →Excel has no fixed-point type, so decimals become numbers — use a database target if exactness matters.
What you get
A ZIP containing <table>.xlsx. If anything about your data needed a judgement call, a _warnings.txt explains it.
Questions
- Is converting MS Access to Excel free?
- Yes. Files up to 10MB convert free with no account. There is a limit of five conversions per day per IP address.
- Will my MS Access data keep its types in Excel?
- Yes — that is the point. Whole numbers, decimals, dates and booleans are mapped to real Excel types rather than everything becoming text. The mapping table above shows exactly what you get.
- Do you store my file?
- No. The file is written to a temporary directory, converted, and the directory is deleted as soon as your download has been sent.