how to convert xls to xlsx

Question

I have some *.xls(excel 2003) files， and I want to convert those files into xlsx(excel 2007).

I use the uno python package, when I save the documents, I can set the

Answer 1

Simple solution

I required a simple solution to convert couple of xlx to xlsx format. There are plenty of answers here, but they are doing some "magic" that I do not completely understand.

A simple solution was given by chfw, but not quite complete.

Install dependencies

Use pip to install

pip install pyexcel-cli pyexcel-xls pyexcel-xlsx

Execute

All the styling and macros will be gone, but the information is intact.

For single file

pyexcel transcode your-file-in.xls your-new-file-out.xlsx

For all files in the folder, one liner

for file in *.xls; do; echo "Transcoding $file"; pyexcel transcode "$file" "${file}x"; done;