XLS (Folha de Calculo Binaria Microsoft Excel)
XLS e o formato binario legado de folha de calculo do Microsoft Excel utilizado do Excel 97 ao Excel 2003. Suporta formulas, graficos e formatacao mas com limites menores que o XLSX moderno.
Tipo MIME
application/vnd.ms-excel
Tipo
Binรกrio
Compressรฃo
Sem perdas
Vantagens
- + Broad compatibility with older Excel versions and legacy enterprise tools
- + Well-documented binary format with mature parsing libraries
- + Supports VBA macros and embedded objects
Desvantagens
- โ Row limit of 65,536 and column limit of 256 per worksheet
- โ Larger file sizes than compressed XLSX
- โ Proprietary binary format is harder to work with programmatically
Quando usar .XLS
Use XLS apenas para compatibilidade com Excel 2003 ou anterior. O XLSX e recomendado para todos os fins modernos.
Detalhes tรฉcnicos
O XLS utiliza o formato binario BIFF8 dentro de OLE2 Compound Documents. Limitado a 65.536 linhas e 256 colunas por folha. Suporta macros VBA, graficos e formatacao condicional dentro do formato binario.
Histรณrico
A Microsoft utilizou o formato binario XLS durante mais de uma decada, de 1997 a 2007. Utilizava o formato BIFF (Binary Interchange File Format) com atualizacoes incrementais em cada versao do Excel.
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