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5 Worksheet/Workbook Records
5.112 WRITEACCESS
BIFF2 BIFF3 BIFF4 BIFF5 BIFF8
— 005C H 005C H 005C H 005C H
This record is part of the File Protection Block (➜4.19). It contains the name of the user that has saved the file. The user
name is always stored as an equal-sized string. All unused characters after the name are filled with space characters. It is
not required to write the mentioned string length. Every other length will be accepted too.
Record WRITEACCESS, BIFF3-BIFF4:
Offset Size Contents
0 32 User name, byte string, 8-bit string length, 31 characters (➜2.5.2)
Record WRITEACCESS, BIFF5:
Offset Size Contents
0 54 User name, byte string, 8-bit string length, 53 characters (➜2.5.2)
Record WRITEACCESS, BIFF8:
Offset Size Contents
0 var. User name, Unicode string, 16-bit string length, 109 characters (➜2.5.3)
5.113 WRITEPROT
BIFF2 BIFF3 BIFF4 BIFF5 BIFF8
— 0086 H 0086 H 0086 H 0086 H
This record is part of the File Protection Block (➜4.19). It does not contain any data. If present it specifies that the file is
write protected. The write protection password is stored in the FILESHARING record (➜5.44).
5.114 XCT – CRN Count
BIFF2 BIFF3 BIFF4 BIFF5 BIFF8
— 0059 H 0059 H 0059 H 0059 H
This record stores the number of immediately following CRN records. These records are used to store the cell contents
of external references. See ➜4.10 for details about external references.
Record XCT, BIFF3-BIFF5:
Offset Size Contents
0 2 Number of following CRN records (➜5.23)
Record XCT, BIFF8:
Offset Size Contents
0 2 Number of following CRN records (➜5.23)
2 2 Index into sheet table of the involved EXTERNALBOOK record (➜5.38)
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