Format
Microsoft Excel Workspace File
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Excel Workspace File
- Version
- 5/95
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/vnd.ms-excel
- PUID: fmt/1858
- Format type
- Spreadsheet
- Description
- An XLW file is a workspace file created by Microsoft Excel. It contains the screen locations of one or more workbooks. XLW files are used to restore the layout when working simultaneously on multiple workbooks, and as such do not contain any actual spreadsheet data; their only function is to store the physical layout of workbook files. They were created when the user selected View -> Save Workspace in earlier versions of Excel. Versions of Excel 2013 onwards do not generate Workspace files, but can open XLW files from Excel 2010 and before. It should be noted that Excel v.4 did create some workbook files with the .xlw extension, which contained worksheet data i.e. rows and columns of cells.
- File extensions
-
xlw - Source
- National Library of Australia / National Library of Australia
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
- Supported by
- Microsoft Corporation
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
Microsoft Excel Workspace File
- Note
- Absolute from beginning of file, magic bytes: ……..{3}.B…ä.8…{1}…=…
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
0908080000050001{3}0742000200E40438000400{1}0005003D001200- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V112
- Release date
- 10 May 2023
Microsoft Excel Workspace File: Signature researched and samples provided by The National Library of Australia.
Microsoft Excel Workspace File 5/95: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Library of Australia.