Free Excel redact tool

Remove personal data before you share — free.

Upload a spreadsheet and get a safe copy back with personal data masked — emails, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, card and bank numbers, and personal details hiding in the file’s own properties. You see a plain-language list of what was found and where, then download the clean copy. Your original workbook is never changed, and the masked values are never shown back.

Free · no signup · your file is never stored
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What it masks

The scan looks for structured personal data by pattern: email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, credit-card and bank-account numbers, government and tax IDs, and personal information tucked into the workbook’s document properties. Every match is replaced with a [REDACTED] marker in a fresh copy — every non-personal cell, formula, and the sheet structure are left exactly as they were.

The before→after ledger is the point

Nothing happens silently. You get a category-by-category breakdown — how many of each kind of personal data were found and where (down to the sheet and cell) — before you download. The masked values themselves are never echoed back to the page, so nothing can re-leak through this tool.

Know its limits

Detection is pattern-based, so it reliably catches things with a recognizable shape. It does not catch names or free-text personal details written in prose — those have no fixed pattern. The ledger says so plainly: scan the safe copy yourself before you share it. Choosing which categories to mask is coming next.

Your original file is safe

The page reads your file in memory, masks a copy, and hands that copy back. Your uploaded .xlsx is never changed and never stored — nothing is ever lost.

Want this inside your AI agent, on your own machine, with no upload at all? Install xlsx-for-ai and ask Claude or Cursor to “remove the personal data from this spreadsheet.”