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

Binário

Compressão

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

− Row limit of 65,536 and column limit of 256 per worksheet
− Larger file sizes than compressed XLSX
− 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 técnicos

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.

Histórico

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.

Converter de .XLS

.xls → .csv .xls → .ods .xls → .tsv .xls → .xlsx

Converter para .XLS

.csv → .xls .ods → .xls .tsv → .xls .xlsx → .xls

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