This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.
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Adam Younce
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The gist of why the early MS Office file formats are confusing contortions of binary records partially comes down to zero copy deserialization. Early Word versions read data from disk directly into in-memory structures (nicely summarized here by Joel Spolsky). https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-microsoft-office-file-formats-so-complicated-and-some-workarounds/
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