What about conditional formatting?

ET is the spreadsheet format from Kingsoft WPS Office, the Chinese answer to Excel. It dominates corporate and government IT in mainland China, Hong Kong, and increasingly Southeast Asia, where Kingsoft has aggressive OEM bundling deals with PC manufacturers. The format is binary, structurally inspired by .xls but with its own opcodes, embedded CJK font hinting, and occasionally macro modules written in WPS's VBA-compatible scripting layer.

Westerners encounter .et files most often when a supplier in Guangzhou emails a quotation, a research collaborator in Beijing shares lab data, or a translation agency in Taipei sends a glossary. Excel and Numbers both refuse to open the format. LibreOffice has partial support via the libetonyek-adjacent path but mangles complex formulas. jpg.now converts the spreadsheet to JPG by rendering each used sheet region as a styled table, preserving column widths, merged cells, and basic conditional formatting where the source declares it.

Typical uses include sharing a price list with a procurement team that doesn't have WPS installed, embedding a data snapshot in a Confluence page, or producing an immutable audit copy for a compliance archive. For long sheets, the converter paginates so each JPG stays readable. If you need a portable bundle, follow up with /jpg-to-pdf. To shrink the result for email attachments, run it through /compress-jpg.

Reasons to convert ET to JPG usually come down to compatibility, file-size, or specific feature requirements. Common situations:

• An app or platform only accepts JPG uploads.
• You need a feature unique to JPG (e.g. transparency, vector scaling, animation, multi-page pages, etc.) that ET doesn't provide.
• You're optimising file size — modern formats often produce smaller files than the older format you started with.
• You need a single archival format across a project so files behave consistently in the same viewer.

1. Open the ET → JPG tool on jpg.now.
2. Drag your ET file onto the drop zone, or click Select files. You can drop a whole folder of files at once.
3. The output is fixed to JPG. If the format supports extra options (page size, transparency background, quality, EXIF stripping), tweak them in the right-hand panel.
4. Click Convert. The job runs on our server and finishes in a few seconds for typical photos.
5. Download the result. Files stay in storage for 24 hours and are then permanently deleted.

The entire flow is free for the first 10 jobs per day with no signup required. A free account doubles that quota; a premium plan removes the limit entirely.

• Trim the used range in WPS before export - .et files often include thousands of empty rows that bloat the JPG.
• Macros and formulas evaluate to their last cached value; recalculate in WPS first if the data depends on volatile functions.
• Use Page Setup in WPS to set print area; the converter respects this boundary.
• For multi-tab workbooks, each sheet renders as a separate JPG.
• Avoid embedded charts in tiny cells; they render at low resolution. Resize before conversion for crisp output.