It's pretty hard to tell what's the bear minimum because things like that just aren't documented. To find out you'd have to start removing records and see if Excel will still open the spreadsheet.
Regards,
Glen
At 10:33 PM 22/02/2004, you wrote:
Hi ,
I am a newbie trying to understand excel file format. I have a clarification regarding what are the bare minimum records which are needed in a excel file.
The documention contained in sc.openoffice.org indicates that the following is the bare minimum. The others are optional.
// workbook global BOF WINDOW1 FONT (1..N) XF (1..N) STYLE (1..N) BOUNDSHEET (1..N) EOF
// worksheet substream BOF DIMENSIONS WINDOW2 EOF
But in Apache POI-HSSF if I create an *empty* excel file and view through java BIFFViewer I can see many more records than this . Yes, HSSF may be writing some default values for other records. But just to clarify, with the above minimum records is it possible create a valid excel file ?
Thanks in Advance ObiVan
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