Microsoft Compound Document File Format

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The Original Documentation is “OpenOffice.org’s Documentation of the ….. sheet document in Microsoft Excel file format, written by OpenOffice.org Calc. …

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Content
OpenOffice.org’s Documentation of the
Microsoft Compound Document
File Format
Author Daniel Rentz . mailto:dr@openoffice.org ? http://sc.openoffice.org
License Public Documentation License
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Project started 2004-Aug-30
Last change 2007-Aug-07
Revision 1.5Contents
1 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………… 3
1.1 License Notices 3
1.2 Abstract 3
1.3 Used Terms, Symbols, and Formatting 4
2 Storages and Streams ………………………………………………………………………………. 5
3 Sectors and Sector Chains ……………………………………………………………………….. 6
3.1 Sectors and Sector Identifiers 6
3.2 Sector Chains and SecID Chains 7
4 Compound Document Header ………………………………………………………………….. 8
4.1 Compound Document Header Contents 8
4.2 Byte Order 9
4.3 Sector File Offsets 9
5 Sector Allocation ………………………………………………………………………………….. 10
5.1 Master Sector Allocation Table 10
5.2 Sector Allocation Table 11
6 Short-Streams ………………………………………………………………………………………. 12
6.1 Short-Stream Container Stream 12
6.2 Short-Sector Allocation Table 12
7 Directory ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 13
7.1 Directory Structure 13
7.2 Directory Entries 15
8 Example ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 17
8.1 Compound Document Header 17
8.2 Master Sector Allocation Table 19
8.3 Sector Allocation Table 19
8.4 Short-Sector Allocation Table 20
8.5 Directory 21
9 Glossary ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 24
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