Summary
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| Name |
Microsoft Excel 3.0 Worksheet (xls) |
| Version |
3 |
| Other names |
Microsoft Excel Worksheet (3.0) |
| Identifiers |
MIME:
application/vnd.ms-excel
Apple Uniform Type Identifier:
com.microsoft.excel.xls
PUID:
fmt/56
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| Family |
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| Classification |
Spreadsheet |
| Disclosure |
None |
| Description |
The Binary Interchange File Format (BIFF) is a spreadsheet file format developed by Microsoft. BIFF 3 is the native file format of Microsoft Excel 3.0 for Windows. The format is proprietary and Microsoft does not make details of its structure public. The information contained here is derived primarily from OpenOffice.org's reverse-engineered documentation of the format, and should not therefore be regarded as definitive. BIFF is a stream based format, and a BIFF 3 file comprises a single worksheet stream, containing a Beginning of File (BOF) record, followed by a series of Worksheet records, and terminated by an End of File (EOF) record. |
| Orientation |
Binary |
| Byte order |
Little-endian (Intel) |
| Related file formats |
Is previous version of Microsoft Excel 4.0 Worksheet (xls) (4S)
Is previous version of Microsoft Excel 4.0 Workbook (xls) (4W)
Is subsequent version of Microsoft Excel 2.x Worksheet (xls) (2)
Is supertype of Microsoft Excel Chart (3.0)
Is supertype of Microsoft Excel Macro (3.0)
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| Technical Environment |
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| Released |
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| Supported until |
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| Format Risk |
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| Developed by |
 Microsoft Corporation
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| Supported by |
Microsoft Corporation
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| Source |
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
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| Source date |
11 Mar 2005 |
| Source description |
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| Last updated |
19 Jul 2013 |
| Note |
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Details: File format summary
: detailed report on file format 
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