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5.99 SORT
5.99 SORT
BIFF2 BIFF3 BIFF4 BIFF5 BIFF8
— — — 0090 H 0090 H
This record stores the last settings from the “Sort” dialogue for each sheet. These settings are not attached to a cell range
in the sheet, that means, it is not possible to determine the cell range sorted with the settings of this record.
Record SORT, BIFF5:
Offset Size Contents
0 2 Option flags, see below
2 1 Length of first sort key (character count, l1)
3 1 Length of second sort key (character count, l2)
4 1 Length of third sort key (character count, l3)
5 l1 Character array of first sort key
[5+l1] l2 (optional) Character array of description text
[5+l1+l2] l3 (optional) Character array of help topic text
var. 1 Not used
Record SORT, BIFF8:
Offset Size Contents
0 2 Option flags, see below
2 1 Length of first sort key (character count, l1)
3 1 Length of second sort key (character count, l2)
4 1 Length of third sort key (character count, l3)
5 var. First sort key (Unicode string without length field, ➜2.5.3)
[var.] var. (optional, only if l2 > 0) Second sort key (Unicode string without length field, ➜2.5.3)
[var.] var. (optional, only if l3 > 0) Third sort key (Unicode string without length field, ➜2.5.3)
var. 1 Not used
Option flags, BIFF5-BIFF8:
Bit Mask Contents
0 0001 H 0 = Sort rows (top-to-bottom) 1 = Sort columns (left-to-right)
1 0002 H 0 = Sort first key in ascending order 1 = Sort first key in descending order
2 0004 H 0 = Sort second key in ascending order 1 = Sort second key in descending order
3 0008 H 0 = Sort third key in ascending order 1 = Sort third key in descending order
4 0010 H 0 = Sort case-insensitive 1 = Sort case-sensitive
9-5 03E0 H One-based index into the table of defined sort lists, or 0 for sorting without a list
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