Hello Dave,
We can find all Office Binary File Format Specs in the following document,
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx
The Office 97-2003 binary file formats use the Windows Structured Storage
APIs. The Office-specific information is stored as streams in this more
generalized format. Common elements, such as document properties, can be
accessed through the Structured Storage APIs and do not require access to
the Office binary file format documentation. Unfortunately, the Structured
Storage API only exist in native world. We can only call a lot of P/Invoke
to access it from .NET
Actually, Office binary file formats are designed to be accessed through
the Office Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), instead of by direct
manipulation of the file format. Because of the complexity of the formats,
direct manipulation can cause corruption and is strongly discouraged.
For more detailed information, please have a look at the following KB
article.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840817
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