hello list, hello andy - thanks for your reply

sorry for wrong subject, here again my former questions:
> i don't know anything about NDAs. i never got in direct touch with such
> stuff. in my earlier days (must be about 8 or 9 years back) i used to use
> some products from MS. currently i'm only oppressed by licenses like GPL,
> LGPL, MPL and similar ones;)
>
> the documentation i'm refering to, thats the only and just slightly helpful
> documentation about biff 7/8 formats is the one at
> http://www.zuhl.com/~mikez/Info/ExcelFmt/index.html
> as far as i could recherche this IS a excerpt from the 'excel 97 developers
> kit' ... but maybe there is a lot more detailed information available in
> some other chapters!? what i'm looking for is the description of the bytes
> marked as '(reserved)' of the doper structures mentioned at the bottom of
> http://www.zuhl.com/~mikez/Info/ExcelFmt/s59d58.htm (especially the string
> doper reserved fields).
> don't want to waste money for a product/company thats definitely useless.
> so if someone of you could check for existence of the missing puzzle parts
> it would eventually help me to save money and the time for waiting for the
> book:)

i just added a class PhoneticRecord to the autofilter issue on poi bugzilla

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35125

this record is far away from your actual battle fields, of course. since the 
phonetic record seems to be written mistakenly by genuine excel applications 
(as described on website posted above) it can be safely suppressed during 
deserialization. but if (only) added to biffviewer it helps at least to get a 
better point of view about whats going on inside an excel file (meaning: one 
more record which can be identified safely and so does not appear as unknown 
record).
maybe you can use this code snippet.
i also started examining the cell comment issue since it seems to be highest 
rated and in my todo list on nearly same level than autofilter is.
after some dump-inspections i argue to be in need for further documentation as 
i'am in the case of the autofilter implementation. so if someone could point 
me wether the excel developers kit is able to give me more detailed insight i 
could go on faster.
>
> thanks in advance and a nice evening
> andreas

p.s. sorry for my english, yoda my teacher was ;)

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