When is XLS the right target for Word table data?

When the consumer of the file is old: Excel 97-2003 installs, ERP and lab-equipment importers written before 2007, and upload portals that validate the .xls extension. For modern Excel or Google Sheets, choose XLSX and skip the legacy limits.

What limits does the old XLS format impose on my data?

65,536 rows and 256 columns per sheet - hard limits baked into the binary format. Word tables rarely approach that scale, so for this conversion the practical constraints are formatting-related rather than size-related.

How is non-table text from the document handled?

Carried as plain text in cells rather than deleted, typically one paragraph per row. It sits alongside the converted tables so nothing silently disappears, and the prose rows are easy to delete in Excel afterwards.

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Send the tables in a Word DOCX document to a legacy Excel XLS sheet for older tools and templates that still expect the 97-2003 format. Each table in the document becomes a block of worksheet cells, with surrounding prose carried along as plain text.

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Why convert DOCX to XLS?

Supply data to legacy ERP importers, lab instruments, and bank templates that reject anything newer than Excel 2003 files.
Pass a table from a modern Word document to a colleague stuck on Excel 2000 or XP.
Match upload portals that validate specifically against the .xls extension.

Tip: Numbers arrive as static values with no formulas. Unless the destination truly demands the legacy format, target XLSX instead and skip the 65,536-row and 256-column ceilings.

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XLS is preselected as the target format.
Click Start and wait for the conversion to finish.
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