britt@venera.isi.edu (Benjamin Britt) (01/21/89)
Is the EXCEL binary file format documented and available? One of my spreadsheets is written on a bad block on my disk and I would like to recover as much data as I can. Thanks, Ben -- Benjamin Britt USC/Information Sciences Institute
bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) (01/23/89)
> Is the EXCEL binary file format documented and available? One of my > spreadsheets is written on a bad block on my disk and I would like to > recover as much data as I can. I doubt it. Microsoft is unhappy putting their internal file formats into the public domain - I once wanted the format of Word files so I could write a program to recover their files. Microsoft basically said that they don't suggest recovering a Word file; one should open the file as plain text and edit it! You might have some luck contacting Microsoft directly. And you might not... Bob Hablutzel Wildwood Software BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU