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  The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file.

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  This is an interesting look into the innards of the file formats used by Microsoft Office. As you would expect, they are insanely complicated, but as Joel Spolsky points out, there are good reasons for their design, and he even offers a few workarounds.

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  Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But that’s not all there is to it! This document includes an interesting comment.

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  An apology for the complexity of the published Office file formats. My largest contribution to Excel 1.0 was file compatibility - and especially dealing with Lotus 123. He describes one difficulty we had to deal with - importing Multiplan files that use

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  Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that’s not all there is to it!

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