Open XLSX File

Open XLSX File Online

XLSX files are Microsoft Excel text files that are evolutionary from XLS. With the release of the 2007 version of Excel, the format was introduced as a new standard for spreadsheet documents. The goal was to establish an XML-based file format that required less storage capacity. The name XLSX is a combination of the popular XLS extension and the X for XML. This format contains a set of packages in XML, being more practical to archive, since it can be decompressed with software external to Office Suite and allows easy sending via email. The XLSX file belongs to the Office Open XML standard (also called OOXML or OpenXML), being an open file format. This type of file improves file and data management and expands the possibilities with binary files compared to previous versions of Microsoft Excel. Storing information in XML format represents an increase in security, which is essentially plain text.

How to open files with the xlsx extension without installing any programs?

If you don't want to complicate your life installing programs on your PC, you can open files with the XLSX extension online, so you don't have to download any programs. You can do this with Google Sheets. A convenient way to achieve this is by adding this Office Edition extension to your Chrome browser.

To use Chrome's XLSX viewer you can follow these steps:

Install the Chrome extension, it should be noted that there are many extensions compatible with Chrome, you can choose the one that best suits your needs.

In this guide we can mention the "Office Edition" provided by Google which is installed in Chrome by default. After installing the extension (In case of not having it available), the Office files that you drag to Chrome, that you open in Gmail, in Google Drive, etc. they will open in Documents, Sheets, Presentations and you can view and edit them. You can save the changes in the original XLSX format once edited with this extension.

You can also use other online services to fix these types of files.

• Google Sheets
• Zoho Sheet
• GroupDocs