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5 Worksheet/Workbook Records
5.100 SST – Shared String Table
BIFF2 BIFF3 BIFF4 BIFF5 BIFF8
— — — — 00FC H
This record contains a list of all strings used anywhere in the workbook. Each string occurs only once. The workbook
uses indexes into the list to reference the strings. See ➜4.11 for more information.
Record SST, BIFF8:
Offset Size Contents
0 4 Total number of strings in the workbook (see below)
4 4 Number of following strings (nm)
8 var. List of nm Unicode strings, 16-bit string length (➜2.5.3)
The first field of the SST record counts the total occurrence of strings in the workbook. For instance, the string “AAA”
is used 3 times and the string “BBB” is used 2 times. The first field contains 5 and the second field contains 2, followed
by the two strings.
5.101 STANDARDWIDTH
BIFF2 BIFF3 BIFF4 BIFF5 BIFF8
— — 0099 H 0099 H 0099 H
This record specifies the default column width for columns that have a set bit in the GCW record (BIFF4-BIFF5,
➜5.51), or columns that do not have a corresponding COLINFO record (BIFF8, ➜5.18).
Record STANDARDWIDTH, BIFF4-BIFF8:
Offset Size Contents
4 2 Default width of the columns in 1 / 256 of the width of the zero character, using default font
(first FONT record in the file)
210