OpenOffice.org's Documentation of the Microsoft Excel File Format Excel Versions 2, 3, 4, 5, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003 Author Daniel Rentz ✉ mailto:
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[email protected] Download PDF http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf OpenOffice.org 1.x XML http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.sxw OpenOffice.org 2.x XML http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.odt Project started 2001-Jun-29 Last change 2008-Apr-02 Revision 1.42 Contents 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 6 1.1 License Notices 6 1.2 Abstract 7 1.3 Byte Order 9 2 Document Structure ........................................................................................... 10 2.1 Document Types 10 2.2 The Binary Interchange File Format 13 2.3 File Structure 14 2.4 BIFF Record Structure 16 2.5 Common Record Substructures 17 3 Formulas ............................................................................................................ 28 3.1 Common Formula Structure 28 3.2 Token Classes 32 3.3 Cell Addresses in Tokens 36 3.4 Token Overview 40 3.5 Unary Operator Tokens