Not to be confused with LDAP Data Interchange Format.
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This article is about a data exchange format for spreadsheets. For the general concept, see Data exchange.
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Data Interchange Format (.dif) is a text file format used to import/export single spreadsheets between spreadsheet programs.
Applications that still support the DIF format are Collabora Online, Excel,[note 1] Gnumeric, and LibreOffice Calc. Historical applications that used to support it until they became end of life or no longer acknowledge support of the format are dBase, FileMaker, Framework, Lotus 1-2-3, Multiplan, OpenOffice.org Calc and StarCalc.[1][2]
A limitation with DIF format is that it cannot handle multiple spreadsheets in a single workbook. Due to the similarity in abbreviation and in age (both date to the early 1980s), the DIF spreadsheet format it is often confused with Navy DIF; Navy DIF, however, is an unrelated "document interchange format" for word processors.[3]
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^Petrosky, Mary (August 5, 1985). "File Conversion Market Grows". InfoWorld. Vol. 7, no. 31. pp. 36–37. "Among the file formats designed to facilitate the interchange of text files between microcomputers running different word processing software, IBM's Document Content Architecture (DCA) and the U.S. Navy's document interchange format (DIF) seem to have the greatest support."
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