Convert GIF to XLSX

Convert GIF to XLSX when a table survives as a GIF picture: in old documentation, on a forum, or in a mailing archive. The values land in Excel cells.

What happens when you convert GIF to XLSX

Recognised rows and columns are laid out across the cells of a workbook. When the picture holds plain text, the lines take their own rows, while the words may spread into neighbouring columns.

GIF keeps a short palette, and small digits on it often come out with grainy edges, so such a table reads worse than the same one on a PNG screenshot. Large type on a plain background reads well. Styling such as borders, fills, and merged cells does not reach the workbook.

• Values from the picture land in cells and work with formulas.
• Small type on a GIF reads worse than on a PNG.
• With no readable text there is no file: the conversion ends with an error.

How to convert GIF to XLSX

1. Upload your file in GIF.
2. Select XLSX as the result format.
3. Start the conversion.
4. Open the workbook and check the values against the picture.

When a table survived as a GIF

• Take a rate table from an old website page where it hung as a picture.
• Move a table from an archived mailing into Excel.
• Digitise a reference table kept as an image in documentation.
• Collect data from a forum where tables were posted as GIFs.
• Recalculate the totals of a table whose source file is gone.

Other options for GIF files

• When only the text is needed, use the GIF to TXT converter.
• To place the picture itself into a document, use the GIF to Word (DOCX) converter.
• If the same table exists as a screenshot, the PNG to Excel (XLSX) converter is more accurate.

FAQ

What about an animated GIF?

The table is read from an image rather than a sequence of frames, so the outcome for an animation is unpredictable. Save the frame you need as a separate picture.

Why were some digits read wrong?

GIF has a short palette, and the edges of small digits turn grainy. If the same table exists in PNG or PDF, use that.

Is the styling kept?

No, the workbook receives values. Borders and colours are set again in Excel.