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1 Introduction 1 Introduction 1.1 License Notices 1.1.1 Public Documentation License Notice The contents of this Documentation are subject to the Public Documentation License Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may only use this Documentation if you comply with the terms of this License. A copy of the License is available at http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html. The Original Documentation is "OpenOffice.org's Documentation of the Microsoft Excel File Format". The Initial Writer of the Original Documentation is Sun Microsystems, Inc., Copyright © 2003. All Rights Reserved. See title page for Author contact and Contributors. All Trademarks are properties of their respective owners. 1.1.2 Wikipedia Wikipedia Disclaimer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer 6
1.2 Abstract 1.2 Abstract This document contains a description of the binary file format of Microsoft Excel, including all available Excel versions (for Windows) from Excel 2.x to the current Excel 2003. This project has been started in June 2001 and is still in progress. At several places the remark “2do” indicates an incomplete section of the documentation. 1.2.1 Project Status Chapter Contents Status 1 Introduction Common information Done 2 Document Structure Document structure overview Done 3 Formulas - Structure of RPN token arrays - Detailed description of all tokens 4 Worksheet/Workbook Stream Abstract description of complex features represented by several records 5 Worksheet/Workbook Records Detailed description of all records of the worksheet/workbook stream Done In progress In progress In progress 6 Drawing Objects Not started 7 Charts Internals of chart sheets and chart objects In progress 8 PivotTables Not started 9 Change Tracking Not started 10 Workspace Documents In progress 7
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3.9 Operand Tokens 3.9.7 tMemFunc (
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3.9 Operand Tokens 3.9.12 tMemAreaN
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3.9 Operand Tokens 3.9.15 tRef3d (3
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3.9 Operand Tokens 3.9.17 tRefErr3d
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3.10 Control Tokens 3.10 Control To
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3.10 Control Tokens • Volatile Fo
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3.10 Control Tokens • CHOOSE Func
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3.10 Control Tokens • Sum with On
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3.10 Control Tokens In the followin
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3.11 Built-In Sheet Functions Func
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3.11 Built-In Sheet Functions 3.11.
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4 Worksheet/Workbook Stream 4 Works
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4.2 Record Order in Streams and Sub
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4.3 Calculation Settings Block 4.3
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4.6 Cell Formatting 4.6 Cell Format
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4.7 Cell Table and Row Blocks 4.7.3
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4.7 Cell Table and Row Blocks • F
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4.7 Cell Table and Row Blocks • F
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4.9 Multiple Operation Tables 4.9 M
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4.10 Internal and External Referenc
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4.15 AutoFilter, Advanced Filter 4.
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4.18 Worksheet/Workbook Protection
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4.19 File Protection 4.19 File Prot
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4.19 File Protection • BIFF2-BIFF
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5.1 Overview, Ordered by Record Ide
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5.1 Overview, Ordered by Record Ide
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5.2 Overview, Ordered by Record Nam
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5.3 Overview, Ordered by BIFF Versi
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5.5 BACKUP 5.5 BACKUP BIFF2 BIFF3 B
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5.8 BOF - Beginning of File 5.8 BOF
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5.9 BOOKBOOL 5.9 BOOKBOOL BIFF2 BIF
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5.13 CALCCOUNT 5.13 CALCCOUNT BIFF2
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5.16 CFRULE - Conditional Formattin
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5.17 CODEPAGE 5.17 CODEPAGE BIFF2 B
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5.19 COLUMNDEFAULT 5.19 COLUMNDEFAU
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5.22 COUNTRY 5.22 COUNTRY BIFF2 BIF
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5.24 DATATABLE - Multiple Operation
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5.26 DATAVALIDATION 5.26 DATAVALIDA
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5.29 DBCELL 5.29 DBCELL BIFF2 BIFF3
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5.33 DEFINEDNAME 5.33 DEFINEDNAME B
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5.33 DEFINEDNAME • Option Flags B
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5.36 DSF - Double Stream File 5.36
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5.38 EXTERNALBOOK - External Workbo
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5.39 EXTERNALNAME 5.39.3 Record Con
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5.41 EXTERNSHEET 5.41.2 Record Cont
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5.43 FILEPASS Record FILEPASS, BIFF
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5.45 FONT 5.45 FONT BIFF2 BIFF3 BIF
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5.46 FONT2 5.46 FONT2 BIFF2 BIFF3 B
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5.49 FORMAT Some of the built-in nu
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5.50 FORMULA • Result of the Form
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5.52 GRIDSET 5.52 GRIDSET BIFF2 BIF
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5.56 HIDEOBJ 5.56 HIDEOBJ BIFF2 BIF
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5.58 HYPERLINK • Option Flags The
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5.59 INDEX 5.59 INDEX BIFF2 BIFF3 B
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5.63 LABEL 5.63 LABEL BIFF2 BIFF3 B
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5.68 MULBLANK - Multiple BLANK 5.68
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5.71 NUMBER 5.71 NUMBER BIFF2 BIFF3
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5.73 PAGESETUP Record PAGESETUP, BI
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5.74 PALETTE 5.74 PALETTE BIFF2 BIF
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5.75 PANE 5.75 PANE BIFF2 BIFF3 BIF
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5.80 PRINTGRIDLINES 5.80 PRINTGRIDL
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5.85 REFMODE 5.85 REFMODE BIFF2 BIF
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5.88 ROW Record ROW, BIFF3-BIFF8: O
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5.91 SCENPROTECT 5.91 SCENPROTECT B
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5.96 SHEETLAYOUT 5.96 SHEETLAYOUT B
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5.99 SORT 5.99 SORT BIFF2 BIFF3 BIF
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5.102 STRING 5.102 STRING BIFF2 BIF
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5.104 TOPMARGIN 5.104 TOPMARGIN BIF
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5.109 WINDOW1 5.109 WINDOW1 BIFF2 B
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5.110 WINDOW2 5.110.2 Option Flags
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5.115 XF - Extended Format 5.115 XF
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5.115 XF - Extended Format • XF_A
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5.115 XF - Extended Format Record X
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6 Drawing Objects 6 Drawing Objects
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7.1 Document Integration 7.1.2 Char
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7.2 General Chart Structure 7.2 Gen
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7.3 Common Record Blocks 7.3 Common
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7.3 Common Record Blocks 7.3.6 CHDE
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7.5 Record Overview, Ordered by Nam
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7.7 CHAXISLINE 7.7 CHAXISLINE BIFF2
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7.9 CHEND - End of Block 7.9 CHEND
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7.11 CHLINEFORMAT 7.11 CHLINEFORMAT
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7.13 CHSTRING 7.13 CHSTRING BIFF2 B
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9 Change Tracking 9 Change Tracking
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10.1 Workspace Stream Structure of
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10.3 INDEX 10.3 INDEX BIFF3W BIFF4W
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