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Excel documentation
Hello!
I want to play around with Excel charts, and am now looking for a
detailed description of the Excel chart format.
Someone on this list suggested reading the "Microsoft Excel
Developer's Kit". I want to order this book, but prior to ordering I
would like to know whether someone knows a more recent documentation
of Excel.
All of the versions of this book available at amazon.de were published
9-10 years ago. Isn't the information contained therein oudated?
TIA
dap
PS: Here are the links to those books at amazon.de.
1994 -
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556156324/qid=1076420885/sr=2-3/ref=sr_aps_prod_3_1/028-0910430-8749322
1995 (not available any more) -
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556158793/qid=1076420885/sr=2-2/ref=sr_aps_prod_2_1/028-0910430-8749322
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Re: Excel documentation
Posted by Glen Stampoultzis <gs...@iinet.net.au>.
At 06:15 AM 11/02/2004, you wrote:
> >They still have some of this documentation.
>
>They even have a section on MS Excel charts. But the information in
>this section is IMO not very informative.
>
>At least for me it is too little to start with Excel charts.
Sadly the stuff in the book isn't too detailed either. It provides
information on the records themselves but very little on how they should be
put together.
Regards,
Glen Stampoultzis
gstamp@iinet.net.au
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gstamp/glen/
Re: Excel documentation
Posted by "Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>.
Please do not attempt to use this as I'm not sure of the legals.
The Excel 97 developers kit and open office docs are the only approved
documentation for contributing to HSSF.
--
Andrew C. Oliver
http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
For Java and Excel, Got POI?
The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost
definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its
general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with
everything espoused in the above email.
> From: Dimitri Pissarenko <di...@gmx.net>
> Reply-To: "POI Users List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:15:41 +0100
> To: "POI Users List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Excel documentation
>
>> They still have some of this documentation.
>
> They even have a section on MS Excel charts. But the information in
> this section is IMO not very informative.
>
> At least for me it is too little to start with Excel charts.
>
> dap
>
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Re: Excel documentation
Posted by Dimitri Pissarenko <di...@gmx.net>.
>They still have some of this documentation.
They even have a section on MS Excel charts. But the information in
this section is IMO not very informative.
At least for me it is too little to start with Excel charts.
dap
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RE: Excel documentation
Posted by Kais Dukes <kd...@kaisdukes.com>.
Hi
Have a look at www.wotsit.org and search for XLS.
They still have some of this documentation.
Best Regards,
Kais
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From: Dimitri Pissarenko [mailto:dimitri.pissarenko@gmx.net]
Sent: 10 February 2004 19:10
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Subject: Re: Excel documentation
Hi!
>Microsoft deliberately ceased publication of all materials on their low
>level formats after 1997. This information was also in the MSDN and was
Was it only on the MSDN web site or also on the MSDN CDs, which were
distributed with MS Visual C++ 6 or VB?
TIA
dap
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Re: Excel documentation
Posted by Dimitri Pissarenko <di...@gmx.net>.
Hi!
>Microsoft deliberately ceased publication of all materials on their low
>level formats after 1997. This information was also in the MSDN and was
Was it only on the MSDN web site or also on the MSDN CDs, which were
distributed with MS Visual C++ 6 or VB?
TIA
dap
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Re: Excel documentation
Posted by "Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>.
Microsoft deliberately ceased publication of all materials on their low
level formats after 1997. This information was also in the MSDN and was
removed. It is now up to us to help them in keeping it documented!
--
Andrew C. Oliver
http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp
Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi
For Java and Excel, Got POI?
The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost
definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its
general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with
everything espoused in the above email.
> From: Danny Mui <da...@muibros.com>
> Reply-To: "POI Users List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:00:42 -0500
> To: POI Users List <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: Re: Excel documentation
>
> HSSF supports the Microsoft Excel 97 format. Look for the book that has
> 97 in the title. It's one of the first results at amazon.com but
> they're all third party vendors (I got mine from one anyway).
>
>
> Dimitri Pissarenko wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I want to play around with Excel charts, and am now looking for a
>> detailed description of the Excel chart format.
>>
>> Someone on this list suggested reading the "Microsoft Excel
>> Developer's Kit". I want to order this book, but prior to ordering I
>> would like to know whether someone knows a more recent documentation
>> of Excel.
>>
>> All of the versions of this book available at amazon.de were published
>> 9-10 years ago. Isn't the information contained therein oudated?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> dap
>>
>> PS: Here are the links to those books at amazon.de.
>>
>> 1994 -
>> http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556156324/qid=1076420885/sr=2-3/ref=sr
>> _aps_prod_3_1/028-0910430-8749322
>>
>> 1995 (not available any more) -
>> http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556158793/qid=1076420885/sr=2-2/ref=sr
>> _aps_prod_2_1/028-0910430-8749322
>>
>>
>>
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Re: Excel documentation
Posted by Danny Mui <da...@muibros.com>.
HSSF supports the Microsoft Excel 97 format. Look for the book that has
97 in the title. It's one of the first results at amazon.com but
they're all third party vendors (I got mine from one anyway).
Dimitri Pissarenko wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I want to play around with Excel charts, and am now looking for a
>detailed description of the Excel chart format.
>
>Someone on this list suggested reading the "Microsoft Excel
>Developer's Kit". I want to order this book, but prior to ordering I
>would like to know whether someone knows a more recent documentation
>of Excel.
>
>All of the versions of this book available at amazon.de were published
>9-10 years ago. Isn't the information contained therein oudated?
>
>TIA
>
>dap
>
>PS: Here are the links to those books at amazon.de.
>
>1994 -
>http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556156324/qid=1076420885/sr=2-3/ref=sr_aps_prod_3_1/028-0910430-8749322
>
>1995 (not available any more) -
>http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556158793/qid=1076420885/sr=2-2/ref=sr_aps_prod_2_1/028-0910430-8749322
>
>
>
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