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XLS TO XLSX

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XLS TO XLSX

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Description

A simple Python script that converts Microsoft Excel '.xls' file to '.xlsx' file.

Languages or Frameworks Used

This script requires Python 3 and pywin32.

How to run

  1. Ensure you have Python 3 installed on your system.
  2. Navigate to this project directory or where xls_to_xlsx.py is saved.
  3. To install the required dependencies, open a terminal and run:
pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Make sure you close all running Microsoft Excel applications before executing the script.
  2. To run the script, open a terminal and run the following command:
python xls_to_xlsx.py
  1. Follow the prompts to input the file path.
  2. The output file is then saved in the same directory as the input file.
  3. Input either 'y' to delete the old '.xls' file or 'n' to keep it instead.

Author

odhy

Pyodide-runnable

No — it depends on pywin32 and automates the desktop Microsoft Excel application.