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5 Worksheet/Workbook Records
5.70 NOTE
BIFF2 BIFF3 BIFF4 BIFF5 BIFF8
001C H 001C H 001C H 001C H 001C H
This record represents a cell annotation.
Record NOTE, BIFF2-BIFF5:
Offset Size Contents
0 2 Index to row
2 2 Index to column
4 2 Total length of the annotation string (character count, ln)
6 var. Character array (8-bit characters). This character array will contain at most 2048
characters. If an annotation is longer than 2048 characters, the remaining string will be
written in one or more following NOTE records (see below). Nevertheless the string length
field ln in this record contains the total length of the annotation text.
Record NOTE for continuation of long notes, BIFF2-BIFF5:
Offset Size Contents
0 2 always FFFF H
2 2 Not used
4 2 Length of this part of the annotation string (character count, 1…2048, ln)
6 var. Character array containing ln characters (8-bit characters)
Example: An annotation contains 5000 characters. The string will be split into 3 parts: the first two NOTE
records contain 2048 characters each, and the third NOTE record contains the remaining 904 characters. The first
NOTE record contains the total length of the string (5000), the second and third record contain the local length
(2048 respectively 904).
Record NOTE, BIFF8:
2do
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