How to share an Excel file
You have a spreadsheet — .xlsx, or an older .xls — and
someone needs to see the numbers. Not download a file. See them.
That is where it usually falls apart: an attachment is only useful to someone who has Excel, or Google Sheets, or a laptop at hand. Send a spreadsheet to a phone and there is a good chance it opens as an error, or as nothing at all.
The short answer
Put the spreadsheet at a URL that renders it, and send the link. The recipient opens a page with your sheet laid out as a real table — every sheet in the file, each under its own name. Nothing to install, nothing to sign in to.
Drop your spreadsheet here — you get a link in a few seconds
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Four ways to do it
1. Attach it to an email or chat
The default move, and the one that fails most often. What the recipient needs is the right program to open it. On a phone that is often not there, and on a locked-down work laptop it may be blocked outright. Even when it works, what you sent is a copy: fix a number later and you are sending it again.
2. Google Sheets, OneDrive, or a shared drive
This works, with strings attached: the other person needs an account, and if they use a different address than the one you shared it with, they get the "request access" wall. The file also gets converted on the way in, so what they see may not be quite what you sent.
3. Export to PDF or take a screenshot
Reliable and lossy. A screenshot cannot be scrolled, sorted, or copied from; a PDF export is static the moment you make it, and wide sheets end up either shrunk past readability or cut in half.
4. Drop it on a page and send the link
This is what Plopino does. Drag the .xlsx onto the page and you get
a URL immediately. The sheet opens as a rendered page: each worksheet under its
own heading, cells laid out as a table the browser can wrap and scroll.
- Open plopino.com
- Drag your spreadsheet onto the page — or click Choose file
- Copy the link that appears and send it
The original file stays available: the preview page carries a
Download button, so anyone who does want the actual
.xlsx can still take it.
Questions people actually ask
Do I need an account?
Not for the basic flow. Without an account the page is public and kept for a month, and the link is shown once — save it, because nobody can recover it for you. If you sign in, the page belongs to your account: you can make it private, rename it, and update the content later while the link stays the same.
What happens to a workbook with several sheets?
Every sheet is rendered, in order, each under its own heading — the reader scrolls rather than switching tabs. Very large workbooks are cut to a row limit per sheet so a 200,000-row export does not try to become a web page.
Are my formulas preserved?
The page shows the values the file stores, not the formulas behind them. If someone needs to see or edit the formulas, they can take the original from the Download button and open it in their own program.
Is the spreadsheet public?
If you upload without signing in, yes — anonymous uploads are public and kept for a month. If you sign in, the board belongs to your account and you can make it private. For budgets, payroll or anything with names in it, sign in first and set it private before you send the link.
Can I update it after sending the link?
Yes, if you signed in when you uploaded. Upload the new version and the same link serves the new numbers; the previous version is kept, and you can switch back or delete it. Anonymous uploads cannot be updated — the link is fixed.