Fake Excel Spreadsheet Screensaver
This is a free, harmless fake Excel spreadsheet that runs entirely in your web browser. It renders a convincing Excel window with a cell cursor that wanders the grid and a formula bar that updates, so it looks like real work is happening. Nothing is real and no file, app, or data is touched — it is just pixels on a page with nothing to download or install. Press ESC at any time to exit instantly.
How the Fake Spreadsheet screensaver works
The saver draws a full Excel-style window: the green title bar, the File / Home / Insert ribbon, the cell-reference box and fx formula bar, a lettered-and-numbered grid, and worksheet tabs along the bottom. The numbers are randomly generated each time it loads.
Your chosen Spreadsheet sets the content. Budget fills a Q1 budget with category, monthly, total, budget, and variance columns; Sales report shows products with quarterly figures and a growth percentage; Inventory lists SKUs, quantities, values, and OK/REORDER status.
A green cell cursor jumps to a random cell about once a second, outlining and highlighting it just like clicking around a sheet. The cell-reference box updates to that cell's address and the formula bar shows its contents.
When a numeric cell is selected, the status bar at the bottom fills in a fake "Sum / Count / Avg" readout, exactly like Excel's selection summary. It is all static HTML and CSS with one timer moving the highlight — nothing runs in the background.
A worked example
Set Spreadsheet to Budget and walk away. The screen shows a "Q1 Budget.xlsx" workbook full of plausible category figures and variance numbers, while a green selection box hops from cell to cell, the A1-style reference box and formula bar keep updating, and the status bar flashes Sum / Count / Avg — so from across the room it looks like you're deep in the numbers. Press ESC and it's gone instantly.
Settings & tips
- Switch the Spreadsheet to Sales report for a product revenue table, or Inventory for a stock list with REORDER flags.
- Reload the page to regenerate fresh random numbers if you want a different-looking sheet.
- Use it as a "looking busy" prank screen during a break — the roaming cursor sells the illusion that work is happening.
Frequently asked questions
- Will this fake spreadsheet harm my computer?
- No. It is just a picture of a spreadsheet drawn on a web page and changes nothing on your machine. No file is opened, edited, or saved, and nothing is downloaded.
- Is this real Excel or my actual files?
- Neither. It is a lookalike built from random sample data, not Microsoft Excel and not any file of yours. None of the numbers are connected to anything real.
- How do I exit the fake spreadsheet?
- Press the ESC key and the fake Excel window closes instantly. You return to the normal page with nothing changed.
- Is the fake Excel spreadsheet free?
- Yes, it is completely free and runs in your browser. There is no download, no sign-up, and nothing to install.
- Can I choose what kind of spreadsheet shows?
- Yes. The Spreadsheet control lets you pick Budget, Sales report, or Inventory. Each loads a different set of randomly generated figures.