Editing Microsoft Excel (section)

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[[OpenOffice.org]] has created documentation of the Excel format. Two epochs of the format exist: the 97-2003 [[Object Linking and Embedding|OLE]] format, and the older stream format.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf|title=OpenOffice.org's documentation of the Microsoft Excel File Format|date=August 2, 2008|access-date=July 28, 2009|archive-date=May 9, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509063852/http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Microsoft has made the Excel binary format specification available to freely download.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/B/E/0BE8BDD7-E5E8-422A-ABFD-4342ED7AD886/Excel97-2007BinaryFileFormat(xls)Specification.xps|title=Microsoft Office Excel 97 – 2007 Binary File Format Specification (*.xls 97-2007 format)|year=2007|publisher=Microsoft Corporation|access-date=February 16, 2008|archive-date=December 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222093136/http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/B/E/0BE8BDD7-E5E8-422A-ABFD-4342ED7AD886/Excel97-2007BinaryFileFormat(xls)Specification.xps|url-status=live}}</ref>