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title: References
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Some of our original research is documented at https://oss.sheetjs.com/notes/
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The specifications list is non-exhaustive.
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- Worksheet File Format (From Lotus) December 1984[^1]
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- Open Document Format for Office Applications Version 1.3
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:::info pass
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The primary specifications for XLSX are:
- `ISO/IEC 29500` "Information technology — Document description and processing languages — Office Open XML File Formats"
- `ECMA-376` "Office Open XML file formats"
As some editions of `ECMA-376` are identical to `ISO` specification editions,
most of the public XLSX document community use the spec names interchangeably.
:::
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## Open Specifications Promise
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Lotus dedicated the "Worksheet File Format" documentation to the Public Domain.
Microsoft opted for the "Open Specifications Promise", a covenant not to sue.
The documentation that falls under the promise are listed below.
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<details>
<summary><b>Specifications</b> (click to show)</summary>
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- `MS-CFB`: Compound File Binary File Format
- `MS-CTXLS`: Excel Custom Toolbar Binary File Format
- `MS-EXSPXML3`: Excel Calculation Version 2 Web Service XML Schema
- `MS-ODATA`: Open Data Protocol (OData)
- `MS-ODRAW`: Office Drawing Binary File Format
- `MS-ODRAWXML`: Office Drawing Extensions to Office Open XML Structure
- `MS-OE376`: Office Implementation Information for ECMA-376 Standards Support
- `MS-OFFCRYPTO`: Office Document Cryptography Structure
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- `MS-OI29500`: Office Implementation Information for `ISO/IEC 29500` Standards Support
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- `MS-OLEDS`: Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Data Structures
- `MS-OLEPS`: Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Property Set Data Structures
- `MS-OODF3`: Office Implementation Information for ODF 1.2 Standards Support
- `MS-OSHARED`: Office Common Data Types and Objects Structures
- `MS-OVBA`: Office VBA File Format Structure
- `MS-XLDM`: Spreadsheet Data Model File Format
- `MS-XLS`: Excel Binary File Format (.xls) Structure Specification
- `MS-XLSB`: Excel (.xlsb) Binary File Format
- `MS-XLSX`: Excel (.xlsx) Extensions to the Office Open XML SpreadsheetML File Format
- `XLS`: Microsoft Office Excel 97-2007 Binary File Format Specification
- `RTF`: Rich Text Format
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</details>
## Other Resources
- ISBN 1556155212 "Excel Software Development Kit Version 4"
- ISBN 1556156324 "Excel Developer's Kit Version 5"
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[^1]: The original FTP server is no longer available, but the content has been
mirrored at https://oss.sheetjs.com/notes/lotus/. Lotus Corporation
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dedicated the content to the public domain in 1984.