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From: bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: EXCEL file format?
Message-ID: <10330117@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 89 00:25:36 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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> 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