ABAP_to_the_Future

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ABAP2XLSX
Instead of saving this spreadsheet normally, choose the Save As option, and save
it as “Monster Spreadsheet .zip”; it’s important to have the quotation marks
around the name. You can see this in Figure 11.2.
Figure 11.2 Saving a Spreadsheet as a ZIP File
This appears in the Explorer as a normal compressed ZIP file. However, when you
double-click it, instead of the contents being a spreadsheet file, you get a tree
structure of folders containing XML files (Figure 11.3). Each level in the tree will
have one or more XML files and possibly some lower-level folders. The more features
the spreadsheet has, the more complicated the tree structure will be.
Figure 11.3 File Tree Structure for a Spreadsheet
Now, you have to go on a big game hunt to find out which XML file the feature
in which you’re interested lives. In this example, you’re looking for the details of
the print area and which rows repeat at the top, so double-click the xl folder,
which results in the screen shown in Figure 11.4. Then, open the workbook XML
file, which results in the screen shown in Figure 11.5.
Figure 11.4 Expanded xl Folder Contents
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