The honest answers.

Those do a dumb print: same margins, same cut-offs, same tiny “fit to one page” text — and one file at a time. CrazySmartPDF actually re-lays-out each sheet so no row is split and wide columns are fitted or sliced across pages rather than clipped, does a whole folder at once, tells you if it had to drop anything, and checks its own output for bad pages. It’s the layout work you’d otherwise do by hand on every file.

Yes — it’s free. CrazySmartPDF is free to use, with no trial clock and no paywall on the core features. We may add paid options for heavier or more advanced use down the road, but the core stays free.

No. The engine is general — it renders any Excel workbook. Invoices are just where it started. It’s just as at home with financial statements, board reports, rate cards, schedules, and wide data tables — anything that has to look right on a page.

Yes. CrazySmartPDF works from your real workbook, so it needs Microsoft Excel installed (2016 or newer, Windows). Cover and pivot pages export through Excel itself; other sheets are re-laid-out by the engine, which keeps your number formats, colours, borders and cell styling. If Excel isn’t present, the add-in and desktop app tell you clearly rather than fail silently.

It depends which one you use. The Excel add-in and desktop app render locally on your machine and never touch the internet — your data never leaves your PC. The free web converter on the home page does send your file to our server, where the same smart engine as the desktop app converts it and returns the PDF; the file is processed in a temporary folder that is deleted right after each request and is never stored. So the Windows apps keep everything on your PC, and the web tool uses your file to make the PDF and then deletes it.

Your choice — one sheet, several, or the whole workbook in order. You can also mark specific sheets (like a pivot or cover) to print through Excel natively, and adjust paper size, margins and orientation.

Never. CrazySmartPDF only reads your workbook and writes new PDF files. Your .xlsx is left exactly as it was.

The native add-in and desktop app are Windows-only — they drive your installed Excel, so there’s no Mac or Linux build. The free web converter on the home page runs in any modern browser, Mac included — it uses the same smart engine as the desktop app, converting your file on our server and returning the PDF (your file is deleted right after, never stored). The Windows add-in and desktop app add whole-folder batch and a one-click button inside Excel, and run fully offline.

The native Excel add-in and desktop app are available for Windows (Excel 2016 or newer) — they add whole-folder batch and a one-click button inside Excel, and run fully offline. Prefer not to install anything? The free web converter on the home page converts a workbook right now with the same smart engine — open the Convert section, drop a workbook, and it makes a real PDF (your file is converted on our server, then deleted).

The Excel add-in and desktop app run fully offline — once installed, they render right on your machine with no connection needed. The web converter needs the internet: your file is sent to our server, converted there with the same engine, and the PDF returned — then the file is deleted, never stored.

Standard Excel workbooks — .xlsx, .xls, .xlsm and .xlsb. Because it opens through your own copy of Excel, it can open whatever your Excel opens. What comes out is always an ordinary PDF.

Multiple sheets, yes — one, several, or the whole workbook in order. For pivot tables, cover pages, or sheets built around charts, you can mark those sheets to print through Excel natively, so they come out looking exactly as Excel itself prints them. The smart re-layout handles the ordinary data grids, where a row or cell is never split across a page break.

Yes — it reads your real workbook, so your number formats, colours, borders and cell styling come out as Excel shows them (cover and pivot pages export through Excel itself; other sheets are re-drawn by the engine). What CrazySmartPDF changes is the pagination: it re-lays-out the pages so no row is split, and wide columns are fitted or sliced across pages rather than clipped. The content itself is untouched.

After it renders, CrazySmartPDF rasterises its own PDF and scans every page for two things: blank or orphan pages, and content clipped at the right edge. It writes whatever it finds into a per-file health report you can check — it names the suspect page rather than passing over it silently. It doesn’t auto-fix; the flag is the feature.

Yes — that’s the batch mode in the desktop app. Point it at a folder of workbooks and it renders every one in a single pass, with a running log and a self-check report at the end. It’s built for month-end runs and reporting stacks, not one file at a time.

All three run the same smart layout engine — the same engine lays out your workbook. The Excel add-in adds a one-click Smart Export button to your ribbon; the desktop app is standalone and adds whole-folder batch plus a PDF page extractor. Both run locally on Windows with Excel, fully offline, and never modify your originals. The web converter is an instant, install-free path: it runs in any browser on any OS and converts your file on our server, returning the PDF (your file is deleted right after each request, never stored). What the Windows apps add over the web tool is whole-folder batch, the in-Excel button, and running entirely offline.