Chart sheets (a sheet that holds one chart; Move Chart > New sheet, F11) were
skipped on open, and their chart sheet, drawing, chart, style and colour parts
were dropped with them because the pass-through treats those kinds as content
GridCraft rewrites. Saving a workbook lost every chart sheet.
They are now kept as they were: the <sheet> entry (name, visibility and its
place among the worksheets), the chartsheet part and everything behind it,
byte for byte, written back in place. The workbook's other sheet positions
(active tab, print areas, scoped names) are computed with the chart sheets
counted. A chart sheet is left out on save when the chart is no longer
valid for the workbook: a sheet it plots was deleted or renamed, or a
worksheet took its name.
Excel uses the cached cell values of a saved file only when workbook.xml has both <fileVersion> and the calcFeatures extension; without them it recalculates everything on open, and lookups into closed workbooks come back as #CALC!. Both are now read into the workbook's kept content and written back in schema order: fileVersion first, the calcFeatures ext in <extLst> last. A workbook that had neither gets neither.
The ribbon button toggled structure protection silently. It now opens a
Protect Structure and Windows dialog with an optional password; when a
password was set, unprotecting asks for it and really verifies it
(SHA-512, spin count 100000, salted). The password hash is read from and
written to XLSX workbookProtection (workbookAlgorithmName/HashValue/
SaltValue/SpinCount or the legacy workbookPassword); an unreadable one
stays locked. File › Info uses the same flow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Content types (and extensions) of kept parts come from the input file and
were written into [Content_Types].xml unescaped, so a quote or angle bracket
injected XML; they are now attribute-escaped. Each sheet re-read and kept
its VML drawing (up to 16 MB) outside MAX_KEPT_TOTAL, so many sheets sharing
one highly compressed drawing amplified memory; the drawing is now read
within and charged to the remaining kept-bytes allowance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pass-through of package content GridCraft does not model: on read the raw
parts are kept with their content types and relationship graph per owner
(package root, workbook, sheet); on write they get fresh part names where
needed and new relationship ids, and the r:ids in kept XML are rewritten.
Kept: custom document properties, ribbon customisation, add-in task panes,
custom XML, links to external workbooks with <externalReferences> (never
followed), connections, sheet query tables, printer settings with the
<pageSetup r:id> (#324), form and ActiveX controls, OLE objects and sheet
backgrounds with their VML shapes (merged with GridCraft's note shapes).
Content whose graph reaches parts GridCraft rewrites is dropped with a
warning; sheet content goes with its sheet and is not copied by Copy Sheet.
Fixes#324
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
insert.checkbox existed but had no ribbon button, replaced existing values
with FALSE and was written to XLSX as an invalid number format. Now:
Insert > Checkbox (Cell Controls); empty cells start FALSE, other values
stay and display as General; toggling an emptied box checks it and only
checkbox cells toggle; Delete unchecks first, then removes the boxes; XLSX
reads and writes the checkbox as Excel's feature-property-bag cell control
([MS-XLSX] 2.1.22, 2.3.9, 2.4.99).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Writer: one xl/threadedComments/threadedCommentN.xml per sheet with
comments (thread, replies via parentId, done for resolved, dT when known)
and xl/persons/person.xml (one person per author), with the [MS-XLSX]
relationship and content types. Each thread keeps its legacy note, linked
by the tc={id} author and xr:uid; its body is the text plus replies.
Ids are GUID-shaped and deterministic.
- Reader: keeps dT timestamps (Comment.dates, JSON-compatible), drops
replies whose thread is missing, and reads note visibility from the VML
<x:Visible/> (best effort, broken VML skipped silently).
- Invalid dates are never written. Round-trip and hostile-input tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Histogram, box & whisker, waterfall, funnel, treemap and sunburst charts
were written as clustered columns, and reading skipped such charts in
files made by Excel, which keeps them as cx:chartSpace (chartex) parts.
The writer now writes these kinds as chartEx parts, as Excel lays them
out: the data goes through hidden _xlchart.v1.N workbook names, each
part comes with chart style and colour parts, and the drawing frames it
in mc:AlternateContent with a text-box fallback. Fills are written out
(series in theme accents, waterfall decreases and treemap/sunburst boxes
in their own, a white chart area), so they don't depend on the style
part. The reader reads the parts back (resolving the _xlchart names,
which aren't kept as names) with data, title, axis titles, legend,
labels and colours, and follows mc:AlternateContent in drawings.
Opening an .xlsm and saving it silently stripped xl/vbaProject.bin, turning a
macro-enabled workbook into a macro-free one — data loss for anyone whose work
depends on macros. GridCraft still does not run VBA, but it now carries the
project through unchanged.
- model: `Workbook.vba_project: Option<Vec<u8>>` (base64 in JSON via a new
`b64::opt` helper). `None` = no macros.
- xlsx read: capture the `vbaProject` relationship's bytes instead of warning
and dropping them; warn that macros are kept but not executed.
- xlsx write: when present, emit `xl/vbaProject.bin` byte-identical, add the
`.../relationships/vbaProject` relationship, switch the main part to the
macro-enabled content type (`...sheet.macroEnabled.main+xml`) and add the
`application/vnd.ms-office.vbaProject` override.
- engine: `view.macros` lists the preserved project alongside GridCraft's own
scripts (`{"kind":"vba","executed":false}`), so callers can see it is there.
- ROADMAP: scope now "preserve, don't execute" (was "out of scope").
Tests: round-trip byte-identical blob + correct content types/relationship;
capture from a foreign-produced .xlsm; a macro-free workbook stays clean.
Brandon Thomas