lazarus-ccr/components/fpspreadsheet/reference/MSODumper.txt

Excel xls and PowerPoint ppt file dumper written in Python - very handy to list all contents of BIFF files (e.g. ./xls-dump.py file.xls) 

cd ~
git clone http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/mso-dumper/
mso-dumper/xls-dump.py yourfile.xls
+ Add date/time/datetime read/write support for BIFF8 xls format. No plans for earlier formats though the code could be adapted + XLS BIFF8: added DATE and TIME worksheet functions to RPN formula * Allow writing formulas,numbers etc using cardinals increasing row/column limits for formats that support it. * Add checks for text cell size limits when writing xls, xml. If exceeded, cell text will be truncated (better than corrupting the xls file - e.g. try to open it with Excel 2002 - as happens now with xls format) * Formats that use fpspreadsheet zip have extra checks to prevent crashes for invalid zip dates + Use FPC built-in zip format when using FPC 2.7.1+ as it has fixes/improvements (e.g. zip64 support) + Added FPCUnit test suite to test reading and reading writing files. For now uses BIFF8 xls; contributions for other formats and more tests welcome. See the tests subdirectory. + Add link to msodumper tool for reference/debugging/troubleshooting .xls output Fixes Mantis bugtracker issue #25388 git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/lazarus-ccr/svn@2857 8e941d3f-bd1b-0410-a28a-d453659cc2b4 2013-12-07 13:42:22 +00:00			`Excel xls and PowerPoint ppt file dumper written in Python - very handy to list all contents of BIFF files (e.g. ./xls-dump.py file.xls)`

			`cd ~`
			`git clone http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/mso-dumper/`
			`mso-dumper/xls-dump.py yourfile.xls`