XLS to ODS - Convert document online

(DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, ODT, XLS, XLSX, CSV, ODS, PPT, PPTX, ODP, HTML, XPS, etc.)
Conversion Results:
# Output File Source File Action

How to convert XLS to ODS:

1. Click the "Choose Files" button to select multiple files on your computer or click the "URL" button to choose an online file from URL, Google Drive or Dropbox.

2. Choose a target document format. The target document format can be PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, HTML, TXT, CSV, RTF, ODT, ODS, ODP, XPS or OXPS. A target format can only be converted from certain document formats. For example: It can convert DOC to DOCX, but it can't convert DOC to XLSX. When choosing a target format, it will list what source formats can be converted to the target format.

3. Click the "Convert Now!" button to start batch conversion. The output files will be listed in the "Conversion Results" section. Click icon to show file QR code or save file to cloud storage services such as Google Drive or Dropbox.

XLS vs ODS:
Name XLS ODS
Full name Microsoft Excel Binary File Format OpenDocument Spreadsheet
File extension .xls .ods, .fods
MIME application/vnd.ms-excel application/vnd.-oasis.-opendocument.-spreadsheet
Developed by Microsoft OASIS
Type of format Spreadsheet Spreadsheet
Introduction Microsoft Excel up until 2007 version used a proprietary binary file format called Excel Binary File Format (.XLS) as its primary format. Excel 2007 uses Office Open XML as its primary file format, an XML-based format that followed after a previous XML-based format called "XML Spreadsheet". The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, is an XML-based file format for spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. It was developed with the aim of providing an open, XML-based file format specification for office applications.
Technical details OpenOffice.org has created documentation of the Excel format. Since then Microsoft made the Excel binary format specification available to freely download. The original OpenDocument format consists of an XML document that has as its root element. OpenDocument files can also take the format of a ZIP compressed archive containing a number of files and directories; these can contain binary content and benefit from ZIP's lossless compression to reduce file size.
Associated programs Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Kingsoft Office, Google Docs. LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, KOffice, Google Docs, OpenOffice.org
Sample file sample.xls sample.ods
Wikipedia XLS on Wikipedia ODS on Wikipedia