BIFF8 Sample

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ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand

Hello,

Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.

thanks
 
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Jim Rech

BIFF8 is the file format Excel has used since Excel 97 for XLS files. MS
has no longer publicly documents this format. It's not clear to me what you
mean by "find a BIFF8 sample in VB".

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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
message | Hello,
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| Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.
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| thanks
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ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand

Hi,

I got the BIFF8 specification format on sourcefourge, but it's quite hard
for me to understand how to write a minimal file (a sheet with a text in a
cell) with this format.
I think that if I get a source code for this, I'll be able to do more by
myself

Thanks
 
J

Jim Rech

Sorry but I don't know that I've ever seen example code for creating a BIFF8
file in a programming language like C++. It's not something I've ever been
interested in so there may be stuff "out there".

Of course you could go with a text file or HTML, but those have limitations.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
message | Hi,
|
| I got the BIFF8 specification format on sourcefourge, but it's quite hard
| for me to understand how to write a minimal file (a sheet with a text in a
| cell) with this format.
| I think that if I get a source code for this, I'll be able to do more by
| myself
|
| Thanks
|
|
| "Jim Rech" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
| | > BIFF8 is the file format Excel has used since Excel 97 for XLS files.
MS
| > has no longer publicly documents this format. It's not clear to me what
| you
| > mean by "find a BIFF8 sample in VB".
| >
| > --
| > Jim Rech
| > Excel MVP
| > message | > | Hello,
| > |
| > | Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.
| > |
| > | thanks
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|
 
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ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand

Thank you for this.
I know about this program but it is BIFF2.1 (excel 2.1)
For BIFF8 it is quite more difficult and very different but I can't find
any sample for this

Thanks
sebastien
 
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Tim Williams

What do you need to do, and what versions of excel do you need to support?

For basic files you might be better off using an HTML table and saving it in
a text file with an XLS extension. This is frequently used for generating
Excel files from web applications.

The HTML table can contain css formatting (font size, color etc) and even
formulas - should all display OK in XL97+

Tim.
 
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