How to Open PDF Files Embedded in an Excel File

This is a solution for Mac users who need to open .PDF files that are embedded inside an Excel file created in Office for Windows.
I hope this solution works for other file format combinations. I am doing some experimentation to find out and will repost if I have new learnings.
Problem:
- Colleague sends me a .XLS which has an embedded .PDF on one sheet
- Office: Mac 2011 will not open the .PDF because of lack of OLE support
Solution:
- Copy the .XLS file to a new file
- Rename the file from <filename.xls> to <filename.zip>
- Open the .ZIP with Archive Utility
- Browse into the resulting "decompressed" folder to filename > xl > embeddings
- Find the file of interest, named something like <oleObject2.bin>
- Rename to <oleObject.pdf>
VOILA!
The PDF is recovered in its fully glory.

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