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title: "EXD"
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**Note:** To prevent confusion, "Excel" as described has nothing to do with Microsoft's Excel.

**Note:** This documentation is incomplete.

I recommend reading the ["Excel Data" section](https://xiv.dev/game-data/file-formats/excel#excel-data-.exd) on xiv.dev's Excel docs.

## Alternative Implementations

* [xivModdingFramework (C#)](https://github.com/TexTools/xivModdingFramework/tree/master/xivModdingFramework/Exd)
* [Lumina (C#)](https://github.com/NotAdam/Lumina/blob/master/src/Lumina/Data/Files/Excel/ExcelDataFile.cs)
* [libxiv (C++)](https://git.sr.ht/~redstrate/libxiv/tree/main/item/src/exdparser.cpp)