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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsChad Rothschiller, Su-Piao Wu
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File formats, methods, and computer program products are provided for representing a workbook in a modular content framework. The modular content framework may include a file format container associated with modular parts. A file format includes logically separate modular parts that are associated with each other by one or more relationships where each modular part is associated with a relationship type. The modular parts include a workbook part operative as a guide for properties of the workbook and a worksheet part associated with the workbook part and operative to specify a definition of cells within a worksheet associated with the worksheet part. The modular parts may also include a document properties part containing built-in properties associated with the file format and a thumbnail part containing associated thumbnails. Each modular part is capable of being interrogated separately, extracted from the workbook, and/or reused in a different workbook.
A file format for representing a workbook within a spreadsheet application, the file format representing the workbook in a modular content framework implemented within a computing apparatus, the file format comprising:
A method for representing a workbook in a file format wherein modular parts associated with the workbook include each part written into the file format, the method comprising:
A computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium having control logic stored therein for causing a computer to represent a workbook in a file format comprising modular parts wherein the modular parts of the file format include each part written into the file format, the control logic comprising computer-readable program code for causing the computer to:
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