Create a PDF file from an Excel spreadsheet using Office Online

Go to Microsoft Office online

Log in using your username + "@royalroads.ca" (ie. jsmith@royalroads.ca) 


Choose Excel from the list of applications offered:



Find and click on Upload and open (bottom right-ish of your screen)


Browse to the Excel file you wish to convert to a PDF and click Open


You will see a message that the file is uploading to OneDrive, like this:

file, print (show a print friendly view)


Click File, Print and then hit Show a Print Friendly View


Select your preferred print settings (most likely, you'll want to leave the defaults selected, as shown below), then hit Print.

(You might see this screen flash and then be hidden by the next one - that's OK:)

Confirm destination type is "PDF", then hit Save


Ensure that you're still in the folder where you wish to save the PDF (in the screen shot, it's \Temp\Make a PDF) and type a sensible file name (most likely the same name as the file you're converting) then hit Save


Now you can click on Open a printable... if you want to view the PDF now.  Regardless, you've successfully created the PDF.

This screen hangs around but since you are finished, you can hit Cancel.

the end.





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