Sample Excel Documents

Excel the most popular spreadsheet format. Currently, spreadsheets can be created in various applications besides Excel and supported by a variety of devices. Below are examples of files with different datasets available for download

Sample file: Blank Excel document
Blank Excel document
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Sample file: Excel document with 1 sheet used
Excel document with 1 sheet used
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Sample file: Excel document with 2 sheets used
Excel document with 2 sheets used
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Sample file: Large Excel document with 1 sheet used
Large Excel document with 1 sheet used
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🧠 How Excel Works

Modern .xlsx is a ZIP archive with XML files inside (Office Open XML standard). Data, styles and formulas are stored separately. Duplicate strings are stored in a shared dictionary (sharedStrings) to save space.

📦 ZIP archive with XML files inside 📊 xl/worksheets/ sheet data cells, formulas main content 📖 sharedStrings shared dictionary of text strings 🎨 styles.xml fonts, colors cell formats 💾 .xlsx final file