Format
Microsoft Works Spreadsheet
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Works Spreadsheet
- Version
- 1-5
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/166
- Format type
- Spreadsheet
- Description
- Microsoft Works is a discontinued office software suite developed by Microsoft and available from 1987-2009. It was often available bundled with Windows computers. This format was a forerunner to other spreadsheet editors with grid of cells arranged in rows and numbers. Versions 1-5 were binary files before the .xlr compound files were developed from version 6 onwards.
- Note
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works http://justsolve.archiveteam.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works_Spreadsheet
- File extensions
-
wks - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
Microsoft Works Spreadsheet 1-5
- Note
- BOF: (.|ΓΏ)......T. EOF: ....
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
(00|FF)0002000404055402- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from EOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
01000000- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V115
- Release date
- 15 November 2023
Microsoft Works Spreadsheet 1-5: Description updated and internal signature modified the offset values from null to 0 as part of a project to match PRONOM data with the xsd standard. Submitted by Digital Preservation Department, The National Archives (UK) (UK).
-
Updated in V62
- Release date
- 28 August 2012
Microsoft Works Spreadsheet 1-5: PRONOM Research revealed .wks versions 1-5 to be indistinct from one another so changed from Works Spreadsheet for DOS 1.05. Gave priority over similar Lotus 1-2-3 Version 1 Worksheet. Signature developed through PRONOM Research.