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Some of the people I work with use Excel, and they send me spreadsheets in the native Excel format. Can NExS read these files?

April 26, 2017Excel files format native nexs people read send Spreadsheets

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Some of the people I work with use Excel, and they send me spreadsheets in the native Excel format. Can NExS read these files?

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Since NExS understands the Excel file format, most often, the answer is “yes.” The file format used natively by Excel is called BIFF (Binary Interchange File Format), and it comes in several different flavors. BIFF 5 was introduced with Excel 5.0, BIFF 7 with Excel 95, BIFF 8 with Excel 97, and BIFF 9 with Excel 2000. As you might guess, there are proprietary features of Excel files that Microsoft has never documented, and thus we are unable to support them. Microsoft Excel is a very large and complicated program, and it supports more features than any other spreadsheet, including ours. So, there will be some spreadsheets that will not work in NExS. Excel files that NExS cannot read or write include files that are password protected or that contain Visual Basic scripts/controls.