Hello,

Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.

thanks

BIFF8 is the file format Excel has used since Excel 97 for XLS files. MS
has no longer publicly documents this format. It's not clear to me what you
mean by "find a BIFF8 sample in VB".

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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
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| Hello,
|
| Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.
|
| thanks
|
|

Hi,

I got the BIFF8 specification format on sourcefourge, but it's quite hard
for me to understand how to write a minimal file (a sheet with a text in a
cell) with this format.
I think that if I get a source code for this, I'll be able to do more by
myself

Thanks


"Jim Rech" a écrit dans le message de
...
BIFF8 is the file format Excel has used since Excel 97 for XLS files. MS
has no longer publicly documents this format. It's not clear to me what
you
mean by "find a BIFF8 sample in VB".

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
message ...
| Hello,
|
| Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.
|
| thanks
|
|

Sorry but I don't know that I've ever seen example code for creating a BIFF8
file in a programming language like C++. It's not something I've ever been
interested in so there may be stuff "out there".

Of course you could go with a text file or HTML, but those have limitations.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
message ...
| Hi,
|
| I got the BIFF8 specification format on sourcefourge, but it's quite hard
| for me to understand how to write a minimal file (a sheet with a text in a
| cell) with this format.
| I think that if I get a source code for this, I'll be able to do more by
| myself
|
| Thanks
|
|
| "Jim Rech" a écrit dans le message de
| ...
| BIFF8 is the file format Excel has used since Excel 97 for XLS files.
MS
| has no longer publicly documents this format. It's not clear to me what
| you
| mean by "find a BIFF8 sample in VB".
|
| --
| Jim Rech
| Excel MVP
| "ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
| message ...
| | Hello,
| |
| | Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.
| |
| | thanks
| |
| |
|
|
|
|

Thank you
seb


"Jim Rech" a écrit dans le message de
...
Sorry but I don't know that I've ever seen example code for creating a
BIFF8
file in a programming language like C++. It's not something I've ever
been
interested in so there may be stuff "out there".

Of course you could go with a text file or HTML, but those have
limitations.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
message ...
| Hi,
|
| I got the BIFF8 specification format on sourcefourge, but it's quite
hard
| for me to understand how to write a minimal file (a sheet with a text in
a
| cell) with this format.
| I think that if I get a source code for this, I'll be able to do more by
| myself
|
| Thanks
|
|
| "Jim Rech" a écrit dans le message de
| ...
| BIFF8 is the file format Excel has used since Excel 97 for XLS files.
MS
| has no longer publicly documents this format. It's not clear to me
what
| you
| mean by "find a BIFF8 sample in VB".
|
| --
| Jim Rech
| Excel MVP
| "ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
| message ...
| | Hello,
| |
| | Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.
| |
| | thanks
| |
| |
|
|
|
|

Thank you for this.
I know about this program but it is BIFF2.1 (excel 2.1)
For BIFF8 it is quite more difficult and very different but I can't find
any sample for this

Thanks
sebastien


"NickHK" a écrit dans le message de
...
Sébastien,
have a look at:
http://www.vb-helper.com/HowTo/doexcel.zip

NickHK

"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
message ...
Hi,

I got the BIFF8 specification format on sourcefourge, but it's quite
hard
for me to understand how to write a minimal file (a sheet with a text in
a
cell) with this format.
I think that if I get a source code for this, I'll be able to do more by
myself

Thanks


"Jim Rech" a écrit dans le message de
...
BIFF8 is the file format Excel has used since Excel 97 for XLS files.
MS
has no longer publicly documents this format. It's not clear to me
what
you
mean by "find a BIFF8 sample in VB".

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
message ...
| Hello,
|
| Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.
|
| thanks
|
|

Sébastien,
have a look at:
http://www.vb-helper.com/HowTo/doexcel.zip

NickHK

"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
message ...
Hi,

I got the BIFF8 specification format on sourcefourge, but it's quite hard
for me to understand how to write a minimal file (a sheet with a text in a
cell) with this format.
I think that if I get a source code for this, I'll be able to do more by
myself

Thanks


"Jim Rech" a écrit dans le message de
...
BIFF8 is the file format Excel has used since Excel 97 for XLS files.
MS
has no longer publicly documents this format. It's not clear to me what
you
mean by "find a BIFF8 sample in VB".

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
message ...
| Hello,
|
| Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.
|
| thanks
|
|

What do you need to do, and what versions of excel do you need to support?

For basic files you might be better off using an HTML table and saving it in
a text file with an XLS extension. This is frequently used for generating
Excel files from web applications.

The HTML table can contain css formatting (font size, color etc) and even
formulas - should all display OK in XL97+

Tim.


"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
message ...
Thank you for this.
I know about this program but it is BIFF2.1 (excel 2.1)
For BIFF8 it is quite more difficult and very different but I can't find
any sample for this

Thanks
sebastien


"NickHK" a écrit dans le message de
...
Sébastien,
have a look at:
http://www.vb-helper.com/HowTo/doexcel.zip

NickHK

"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote in
message ...
Hi,

I got the BIFF8 specification format on sourcefourge, but it's quite
hard
for me to understand how to write a minimal file (a sheet with a text
in
a
cell) with this format.
I think that if I get a source code for this, I'll be able to do more
by
myself

Thanks


"Jim Rech" a écrit dans le message de
...
BIFF8 is the file format Excel has used since Excel 97 for XLS
files.
MS
has no longer publicly documents this format. It's not clear to me
what
you
mean by "find a BIFF8 sample in VB".

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"ABC - Sébastien Beaugrand" wrote
in
message ...
| Hello,
|
| Do you know where I can find a BIFF8 sample in VB.
|
| thanks
|
|

Hello Sebastien,

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Thanks very much.

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