What is an XLSX file?
.xlsx is the modern Microsoft Excel file format introduced with Office 2007. Internally, an .xlsx file is a ZIP archive containing XML files that describe each sheet, cell values, formatting, and metadata. It replaced the older binary .xls format and is now the standard for spreadsheet files.
Almost every modern spreadsheet application — Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc, Apple Numbers — can read and write .xlsx files. PDF is the right choice when you need to lock the data and share it with people who do not have a spreadsheet application installed.