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Download a spreadsheet

last updated at: 27 Oct 2026

You can download a copy of any spreadsheet to your computer without removing it from Eigen. Three formats are available: Excel, PDF, and web page.

Download a spreadsheet

  1. Open the spreadsheet in Sheets.
  2. Click File in the top-left of the menu bar.
  3. Hover over Download to open the submenu.
  4. Choose the format you want:
    • Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) saves the workbook in the standard Excel format. All sheets are included, and hidden sheets stay hidden.
    • PDF (.pdf) saves each visible sheet as a page in a single PDF document.
    • Web Page (.html) saves the visible sheets as an HTML file you can open in a browser.
  5. An Exporting document progress bar appears while Eigen prepares the file. When it is ready, your browser downloads it automatically.

The downloaded file takes the name of the spreadsheet.

A PDF or web page shows a cell that mixes several styles in the cell's own style. A very large spreadsheet is cut short in the PDF and the web page, which leave out the cells, charts, images, and sheets past a size limit. Even cut short, a PDF of a very large spreadsheet can take too long to make and fail. A sheet cut short in the PDF keeps the columns one page holds, 192 at the default width, because the page would cut off the rest. The web page keeps more columns while all of the sheet's rows fit. To keep everything, download it as Excel.

In the PDF and the web page, text that doesn't fit its cell's row is cut off at the row's edge, as it is in the spreadsheet.

When the file leaves something out, cuts it short, or draws it simpler, a message says so after the download, for example "2 sheets were cut to fit." An Excel file says so too when a text or formula is longer than Excel allows, or a sheet has a name Excel refuses, for example "1 sheet was renamed."

What carries over to Excel

When you download as Microsoft Excel (.xlsx), the following are preserved:

  • Cell values: text, numbers, booleans, dates, and formulas
  • Number formats
  • Merged cells
  • Column widths and row heights
  • Cell borders
  • Text formatting: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, font, font size, text color, and fill color, also where one cell mixes several styles
  • Text alignment, text wrapping, and text rotation
  • The sheet tab names, colors, and order
  • Hidden gridlines (if you hid them)
  • Conditional formatting rules, data validation rules, and hyperlinks (Google Sheets doesn't show top or bottom, above-average, duplicate or data-bar rules)
  • Charts, as charts you can edit in Excel (a rotated chart sits upright)
  • Images, over the same cells and at the same angle, in front of or behind the charts as in Sheets. A WebP image is saved as PNG or JPEG, since Word, PowerPoint and Google's editors can't show WebP
  • Frozen rows and columns, and the range a filter covers (the values ticked in each column's dropdown are not carried over)

What to use each format for

  • Excel: share with people who use Microsoft Excel or another spreadsheet app, or keep an offline backup you can edit elsewhere.
  • PDF: send a version people cannot easily change, such as a report or a table for a presentation.
  • Web Page: embed the spreadsheet in a web page or archive its appearance at a point in time.

There is no CSV export. To get data out as CSV, download as Excel and then save as CSV from Excel or another spreadsheet app.

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