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| Date | What landed |
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| 2026-10-13 | XLSX export writes a picture used on several sheets once, as one `xl/media` part every drawing points to (it wrote a copy per drawing: a 16-sheet workbook with one 112 KB logo grew from 0.4 to 1.9 MB) (#985) |
| 2026-10-12 | Rows auto-fit oversized fonts: opening a file and whole-row/column formatting grow non-custom rows to their tallest font (#833) |
| 2026-10-12 | Number formats: parsing a format code is linear in its length (long runs of `[`, `,` or `/` no longer take quadratic time), and an unclosed `[` is a literal when splitting sections as well as when tokenizing (#810) |
| 2026-10-12 | Number formats: a fraction denominator with 65,536 zeros no longer crashes; format codes are capped at 255 characters like Excel (longer codes display as General, `TEXT` gives `#VALUE!`) (#807) |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-10-13 | trivial | Progress log: shared pictures written once on XLSX export (#985) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Rows auto-fit oversized fonts on open and whole-row/column formatting (#833); progress log row |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Progress log: multi-area row/column delete (#758) |
| 2026-10-12 | trivial | Progress log: XLSX chart sheets kept on save (#727) |
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# File-format parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** trivial (formulas over Excel's 8,192 characters, and `%` or call chains past the nesting limit, are parse errors instead of stack overflows when a file is opened; previously trivial: XLSX chart sheets are kept on save (#727)) · **Target:** Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365), Excel for Mac 16.113.4
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** trivial (XLSX export keeps a picture shared by several sheets as one media part (#985); previously trivial: formulas over Excel's 8,192 characters, and `%` or call chains past the nesting limit, are parse errors instead of stack overflows when a file is opened; previously trivial: XLSX chart sheets are kept on save (#727)) · **Target:** Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365), Excel for Mac 16.113.4
Every format Excel opens or saves, with GridCraft's read and write support, fidelity and tests.
Part of [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md). **File formats: ~50% ready, 80–120 h**
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| Format | Excel | GridCraft read | GridCraft write | Fidelity / notes | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `.xlsx` Excel Workbook (transitional) | R/W, native | yes | yes | Cells, shared/array/dynamic formulas, styles, themes, merges, CF, validation, tables, comments and notes, hyperlinks, names, freeze panes, outline, print settings, pictures, shapes, charts (simplified, see [chart-parity.md](chart-parity.md)), sparklines, PivotTables (caches and tables), protection, calc settings. **Kept unchanged on save (pass-through, `passthrough.rs`):** custom document properties, ribbon customisation and add-in task panes, custom XML, links to external workbooks (never followed or refreshed), data connections, sheet query tables, printer settings (#324), form controls, ActiveX controls, OLE objects and sheet backgrounds (with their VML shapes), and chart sheets (#727: the sheet, drawing, chart, style and colour parts are written back unchanged in their place, and left out when a sheet they plot was deleted or renamed or a worksheet took their name; they can't be edited or created); dropped when their sheet is deleted or their parts point at content GridCraft rewrites. **Not preserved:** slicers and slicer caches, timelines, data model, query tables attached to tables, sheet and workbook `extLst` entries we don't model, chart details; Strict Open XML files keep nothing. Never checked in Excel across a corpus: repair prompts unknown. 100 MB files fail (#175) | `roundtrip.rs`, `fixtures.rs`, `malformed.rs`, `pivot_tests.rs` |
| `.xlsx` Excel Workbook (transitional) | R/W, native | yes | yes | Cells, shared/array/dynamic formulas, styles, themes, merges, CF, validation, tables, notes (with their shown/hidden state) and threaded comments with replies, resolved state and timestamps (`threadedComments` and `persons` parts, #300), hyperlinks, names, freeze panes, outline, print settings, pictures, shapes, charts (simplified, see [chart-parity.md](chart-parity.md)), sparklines, PivotTables (caches and tables), protection, calc settings. **Not preserved:** unmodelled parts and extensions (form controls, slicer caches, timelines, external links, OLE objects, custom XML, data model, query tables, chart details). Never checked in Excel across a corpus: repair prompts unknown. 100 MB files fail (#175) | `roundtrip.rs`, `fixtures.rs`, `malformed.rs`, `pivot_tests.rs` |
| `.xlsx` Excel Workbook (transitional) | R/W, native | yes | yes | Cells, shared/array/dynamic formulas, styles, themes, merges, CF, validation, tables, comments and notes, hyperlinks, names, freeze panes, outline, print settings, pictures, shapes, charts (simplified, see [chart-parity.md](chart-parity.md)), sparklines, PivotTables (caches and tables), protection, Allow Edit Ranges (`protectedRanges` with their password hashes, #307), calc settings. **Not preserved:** unmodelled parts and extensions (form controls, slicer caches, timelines, external links, OLE objects, custom XML, data model, query tables, chart details). Never checked in Excel across a corpus: repair prompts unknown. 100 MB files fail (#175) | `roundtrip.rs`, `fixtures.rs`, `malformed.rs`, `pivot_tests.rs` |
| `.xlsx` Excel Workbook (transitional) | R/W, native | yes | yes | Cells, shared/array/dynamic formulas, styles, themes, merges, CF, validation, tables, comments and notes, hyperlinks, names, freeze panes, outline, print settings, pictures, shapes, charts (simplified, see [chart-parity.md](chart-parity.md)), sparklines, PivotTables (caches and tables), protection, calc settings. **Kept unchanged on save (pass-through, `passthrough.rs`):** custom document properties, ribbon customisation and add-in task panes, custom XML, links to external workbooks (never followed or refreshed), data connections, sheet query tables, printer settings (#324), form controls, ActiveX controls, OLE objects and sheet backgrounds (with their VML shapes), and chart sheets (#727: the sheet, drawing, chart, style and colour parts are written back unchanged in their place, and left out when a sheet they plot was deleted or renamed or a worksheet took their name; they can't be edited or created); dropped when their sheet is deleted or their parts point at content GridCraft rewrites. **Not preserved:** slicers and slicer caches, timelines, data model, query tables attached to tables, sheet and workbook `extLst` entries we don't model, chart details; Strict Open XML files keep nothing. Never checked in Excel across a corpus: repair prompts unknown. 100 MB files fail (#175) | `roundtrip.rs`, `fixtures.rs`, `malformed.rs`, `pivot_tests.rs` A picture used on several sheets is written once (#985). |
| `.xlsx` Excel Workbook (transitional) | R/W, native | yes | yes | Cells, shared/array/dynamic formulas, styles, themes, merges, CF, validation, tables, notes (with their shown/hidden state) and threaded comments with replies, resolved state and timestamps (`threadedComments` and `persons` parts, #300), hyperlinks, names, freeze panes, outline, print settings, pictures, shapes, charts (simplified, see [chart-parity.md](chart-parity.md)), sparklines, PivotTables (caches and tables), protection, calc settings. **Not preserved:** unmodelled parts and extensions (form controls, slicer caches, timelines, external links, OLE objects, custom XML, data model, query tables, chart details). Never checked in Excel across a corpus: repair prompts unknown. 100 MB files fail (#175) | `roundtrip.rs`, `fixtures.rs`, `malformed.rs`, `pivot_tests.rs` A picture used on several sheets is written once (#985). |
| `.xlsx` Excel Workbook (transitional) | R/W, native | yes | yes | Cells, shared/array/dynamic formulas, styles, themes, merges, CF, validation, tables, comments and notes, hyperlinks, names, freeze panes, outline, print settings, pictures, shapes, charts (simplified, see [chart-parity.md](chart-parity.md)), sparklines, PivotTables (caches and tables), protection, Allow Edit Ranges (`protectedRanges` with their password hashes, #307), calc settings. **Not preserved:** unmodelled parts and extensions (form controls, slicer caches, timelines, external links, OLE objects, custom XML, data model, query tables, chart details). Never checked in Excel across a corpus: repair prompts unknown. 100 MB files fail (#175) | `roundtrip.rs`, `fixtures.rs`, `malformed.rs`, `pivot_tests.rs` A picture used on several sheets is written once (#985). |
| `.xlsx` Strict Open XML | R/W | yes | no (writes transitional) | Excel also saves transitional by default | fixtures |
| `.xlsm` Macro-Enabled Workbook | R/W | yes | yes, macros kept, not run | The VBA project is kept byte-for-byte and written back only into `.xlsm`/`.xltm` (#6); macros never run. Saved with the macro-enabled workbook content type | `roundtrip.rs` (`vba_project_roundtrip`, `package_kind_sets_workbook_content_type`), engine `io.rs` (`macros_are_saved_only_into_xlsm`) |
| `.xltx` / `.xltm` templates | R/W | yes | partial | Saved with the template (and macro-enabled template) content type, chosen by extension; `.xltm` keeps a VBA project, `.xltx` drops it; "new from template" behaviour missing | `roundtrip.rs` (`package_kind_sets_workbook_content_type`), engine `io.rs` |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | trivial | Formula parser: text longer than Excel's 8,192 characters, and postfix chains (`1%%%…`, `f(1)(1)…`) past the 256-level nesting limit, are parse errors (the cell keeps its formula text and cached value) instead of trees deep enough to overflow the stack when a hostile file is opened, saved or dropped |
| 2026-10-13 | trivial | XLSX export keeps a picture shared by several sheets as one media part (#985) |
| 2026-10-12 | trivial | XLSX chart sheets are kept on save (#727) |
| 2026-10-12 | trivial | CSV and TSV export is capped at 512 MiB and refuses a larger used range with an error (#528) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | `.xls` import reads the calculation settings (CalcMode, CalcIter, CalcCount, CalcDelta, CalcPrecision), so circular models calculate instead of showing `#CIRC!` (#724) |