Microsoft KB Archive/284436

= DOC: Excel BIFF8 Extended Rich String Formatting Run Is 4 Bytes =

Article ID: 284436

Article Last Modified on 2/12/2007

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 * MSPRESS Microsoft Excel 97 Developer's Kit ISBN 1-57231-498-2

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SUMMARY
The Excel 97 Developer's Kit contains a description of the file format for Unicode strings on pages 264-266. Extended strings, which may appear in files created by Far East versions of Excel, are documented on pages 265-266. In that description, the Developer's Kit states that the length of each formatting run for a rich extended string is 8 bytes in length. This is incorrect. The correct length of a formatting run for a rich extended string in Excel's BIFF format is 4 bytes, the same as that of normal rich strings. See page 265 for a description and example of normal rich strings.

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