User:Danielbw

Projects

Calc: Tab Background Color

Goal

To gain the functionality provided by Microsoft Excel versions 2002 and higher. Microsoft Excel 2002 introduced Colored Tab Support for Excel. This gave users the ability to color code their spreadsheet tabs. The Goal of this project is to bring this functionality to OpenOffice.org. I realize that ods does not have the capability to store this information and that this project only benefits those who save to an excel format. I am interested in anyone's help that can help me find the way to extend the capability of the ods format to save tab color information. I have not spent a lot of time researching this yet. For simplicity's sake, I will start a second project for that enhancement.

Specifications

TabBgColor_specs.odt

Test Files

All Test Files Must conform to the following rules:

• Workbook must have 10 Worksheets named Sheet1 through Sheet10 in order.
• Test File name: TabColorTestFile_Excel_<Excel Version>_<Excel Format: Binary=bin;XML=xml>.<Excel File Extension> e.g tabcolortestfile_excel_2002_bin.xls for Excel 2002 binary format.

Colors:

Sheet1:       (000000) Black

Sheet2:       (FFFFFF) White

Sheet3:       (FF0000) Bright Red

Sheet4:       (00FF00) Bright Green

Sheet5:       (0000FF) Bright Blue

Sheet6:       (FFFF00) Bright Yellow

Sheet7:       (FF00FF) Magenta

Sheet8:       (00FFFF) Cyan

Sheet9:       (800000) Maroon

Sheet10:      (008000) Green

Downloadable Test Files

Sheet Name	Sample	Color Name	Color RGB
Sheet1		Black	000000

• Binary Formats

• Excel 2002, .xls, Binary format
  BIFF8
  tabcolortestfile_excel_2002_bin.xls
• Excel 2003, .xls, Binary format
  BIFF8, BIFF11
  tabcolortestfile_excel_2003_bin.xls < Need to create this file
• Excel 2007, .xlsb, Binary format

(Unkown)

tabcolortestfile_excel_2007_bin.xlsb < Need to create this file

• XML Formats

• Excel 2003, .xml, XML spreadsheet format

(Unkown)

Need Test File < Not ready for testing yet

• OOXML Formats

• Excel 2007, .xlsx, Binary format

(Unkown)

Need Test File < Not ready for testing yet

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--Danielbw 04:41, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

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