Elijah Wood made his film debut in Back to the Future II as the kid playing the arcade game Wild Gunman in the Cafe 80s.Ronald Reagan was offered the role of Hill Valley’s mayor in Back to the Future III.The Back to the Future II promotional sunglasses sold at Pizza Hut are available on eBay.Doc Brown was supposed to have a chimpanzee pet but unluckily the idea was dropped.Initially, the time machine was made out of an old refrigerator in the early drafts.This theory was confirmed by Bob Gale, the co-writer of the plot. This is where the duo’s friendship began. When Marty McFly was 13 or 14, he snuck into Doc’s lab and wound up getting a part-time job.The film was almost named Spaceman from Pluto because a member of the production team feared that the word ‘future’ is problematic.The script was rejected over 40 times by every major studio.Christopher Lloyd didn’t know Stoltz’s real name, he thought his actual name was “Marty”, too.Each command can be clicked and you will see the value of the current command and also all the explanations about this BIFF command.Interesting Back to the Future Trivia Facts Since only XLS is built on the BIFF commands.Īfter that BIFF Command Viewer will open your default browser showing you all the BIFF commands (of your XLS) with their binary and hex values. You will get an error if you try to open the newer Excel XLSX format or anything else. *** Remember that the application only opens the older Excel XLS format files. Their Open XML translator project wasn’t updated since then. *** I believe there’s only one version available there (1.0.0.0) from 2008. They were mapping XLS and XLSX and released the BiffViewer as by product for everyone to use. So, if there’s a hidden Workbook in your XLS or a URL that navigates to a malicious URL, you can see it in the BIFF command list.īiffView++ was written as part of “Office Binary (DOC, XLS, PPT) to Open XML Translator” by DIaLOGIKa German software house. These include the Excel 4 Macros from 1992 that became popular lately for Malicious usage by adversaries.īiffView++ can show you all the BIFF commands that are used in the given XLS and it has also full detailed explanation on what each command do. So, what good is BiffView++ for you? You can use it on XLS files (Microsoft Excel 2003 and older OLE type) to view its BIFF commands, without opening the Excel editor and finding data that might be hidden in the Microsoft Excel editor GUI. XLS also known as BIFF Binary format and is part of the OLE ( Object Linking and Embedding) Microsoft Suite (all the contents are stored in the CFB container – Microsoft Compound File Binary container), which are all the Microsoft Office products from 2003 and older (Excel – XLS, Word – DOC, PowerPoint – PPT). XLS format is and old Microsoft Excel format (from 2003 and older) that was exchanged in Microsoft Office 2007 to XLSX format (also DOCX, PPTX, which are Open XML format that is a Zipped set of XML files and objects, which you can extract with 7zip and other ZIP tools). Think of it as a list of BIFF commands (a script) that get executed when you open XLS file and build up the Spreadsheet document inside Excel application. BIFF is “Binary Interchange File Format”, which is a format that any XLS (*.xls) file is built on, based on commands. What is BiffView++ (BIFF Command Viewer) and BIFF (Binary Interchange File Format)īiffView++ as the name suggests is a “BIFF Command Viewer”.
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