VCF to Excel converter
Your contacts are read in this tab and never sent anywhere. Nothing is uploaded, stored or logged.
Opening a contact export in Excel usually goes wrong in the same two ways: the plus sign on an international number is read as a formula, and a French or Italian mobile starting with a zero silently loses it. This writes a real .xlsx file with every cell typed as text, so the numbers arrive intact and you can sort and filter straight away.
Drop your files here
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how your file is handled
- It is read, not uploaded. The file is opened by JavaScript running in this tab and processed in memory, in a background worker.
- The page cannot send it anywhere. This site is served with a Content-Security-Policy whose
connect-srcis'self', so no script on the page is permitted to contact another server, even by mistake. - You can check it yourself. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab and convert a file: nothing is sent. Or turn off your Wi-Fi first, because these tools keep working offline.
how to use it
- 01Drop your .vcf files onto the box above.
- 02Pick the columns you want and whether to merge multiple values into one cell.
- 03Download the .xlsx and open it in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice or Google Sheets.
questions
- Why does Excel mangle numbers when I rename a .vcf to .csv?
- Renaming does not convert anything; Excel still applies its own type guessing to every cell. A cell beginning with + or = is treated as a formula and a leading zero is dropped as an insignificant digit. Writing a real .xlsx lets each cell declare that it is text, which stops the guessing.
- Is my contact data sent to a server?
- No. The spreadsheet is built in this tab by JavaScript and handed to you as a download. The page's Content-Security-Policy restricts connect-src to 'self', so it cannot send your data to another origin even if something went wrong. The tool also works with your Wi-Fi off, which is the simplest way to see for yourself.
- Which Excel versions can open the file?
- It is a standard .xlsx, readable by Excel 2007 and later, Numbers, LibreOffice Calc and Google Sheets. There are no macros and no external links in it.
- Can I import the result into Google Contacts or Outlook?
- The default layout is designed to be readable rather than to match a particular importer. Column presets that match Google Contacts and Outlook exactly are planned; until then, export to CSV and map the columns during import.