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Intro to Excel XML Part 2: Displaying your data

Here's some more information for those of you new to XML or at least Office XML. I mentioned in the previous post that it is possible to leverage Excel's XML file format to display your data in a rich way. There are actually two options here, but today Read More
posted Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:27 PM by BrianJones | 8 Comments
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Introduction to Excel XML Part 1: creating a simple table

I started this blog as a way of responding to news about the new formats, as well as give some insights into the goals and design decisions behind our XML support in Office. I hadn't really planned on doing any tutorial level posts, but I think it actually Read More
posted Monday, June 27, 2005 5:22 PM by BrianJones | 12 Comments
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Office's methods for parsing XML

As you know, there are many tools available today for parsing XML. If you want to work with the MS Office XML files, you have a ton of options to choose from. There are a couple alternatives provided by Microsoft, but you can use whatever you want. The Read More
posted Friday, June 24, 2005 3:56 PM by BrianJones | 1 Comments
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Readability vs. Performance of XML formats

This isn't really news for most folks, but I wanted to better explain this for those folks new to XML. As I’ve mentioned before, the new formats are going to be fairly similar to WordprocessingML from Office 2003 in that they will not be pretty printed Read More
posted Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:58 PM by BrianJones | 7 Comments
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Example Office 12 XML File

I wanted to get an example document posted so people get a chance to look through the new Office 12 XML formats and see what the similarities and differences are with the Word 2003 XML format. I took a basic document and saved it out in the new format, Read More
posted Monday, June 20, 2005 5:41 PM by BrianJones | 27 Comments
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Manage your documents: Using Office XML formats and XSLTs

One of the main reasons we announced this new file format so early was that we wanted to give people an opportunity to start working on building different types of solutions on top of the file formats. I’m pushing for an early release of the schemas (sometime Read More
posted Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:07 PM by BrianJones | 22 Comments
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MS Office Open XML Formats and OpenDocument XML format

I've had a number of questions and e-mails asking if the new Office open XML formats are going to be the same as the OASIS OpenDocument format. Rather than reply to the various comments & e-mails separately I figured I'd just attempt to summarize Read More
posted Monday, June 13, 2005 3:20 PM by BrianJones | 46 Comments
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TechEd: Repeat Session for Office 12 XML File Formats

There will be a repeat session of the Office 12 XML File Formats on Thursday @ 1:30. Here's the info: CLI393R - A Glimpse at the Direction of Microsoft Office Open XML FormatsJune 9, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PMN 210 BBrian Jones, Joe Andreshak This session will Read More
posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:50 PM by BrianJones | 3 Comments
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First presentation on the new XML formats

Yesterday was the first presentation I gave on the new file formats since we made our announcement last week. It was a lot of fun. I focused a lot on just explaining what’s really going on with the new formats and what kind of an impact it will have. Read More
posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:48 AM by BrianJones | 6 Comments
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Office 12 Buzzsite

The Office 12 buzzsite is now up and running. It's the best place to sign up for future updates on product news, and currently has some great resources around the XML formats. The two whitepapers that I've already linked to are there, as well as Q&A Read More
posted Monday, June 06, 2005 1:41 PM by BrianJones | 3 Comments

Accessing the Office Documents (ZIP package)

I've had a few questions from folks asking how people will be able to access and program against these files. As I've said (and I'm sure you're all aware by now), in it's simplest form it's just XML and ZIP. Most of the questions have been specifically Read More
posted Monday, June 06, 2005 1:21 PM by BrianJones | 3 Comments
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Office Open XML Formats at TechEd

I hope I'll get a chance to see everyone down in Orlando next week! I'll be down at teched from Sunday to Friday. I have a session on the new formats on Tuesday at 3: http://www.msteched.com/content/sessionview.aspx?TopicID=ac42ce75-1686-4725-bb99-7a02c1897b69 Read More
posted Friday, June 03, 2005 2:29 PM by BrianJones | 8 Comments
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ZIP level Robustness for the Office XML Formats

I already mentioned this in one of my comments, but I wanted to expand on it a bit more. I want to first make clear though that I’m not trying to claim that we’re original for using ZIP, or found some new cool stuff that no one else knew about. One of Read More
posted Thursday, June 02, 2005 8:28 PM by BrianJones | 7 Comments
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License and patent confusion around Office XML formats

There seems to be a number of questions and misunderstandings around the license for the schemas and what people are allowed to do with the files. I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t want to try to interpret the license for you, but there is a pretty good FAQ Read More
posted Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:29 PM by BrianJones | 14 Comments
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Talking with Scoble about the XML formats on Channel9

Robert Scoble swung by last week and we talked a bit about these new formats (very cool guy). He recorded the interview and it's posted up here on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=73329    Read More
posted Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:31 PM by BrianJones | 13 Comments
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New default XML formats in the next version of Office

I’m Brian Jones, a program manager on the Word team. I’ve been at Microsoft for about 6 years, and have been working on XML support in Word and across Office for a good percentage of that time. I thought I’d set up this blog to talk with people about Read More
posted Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:04 PM by BrianJones | 112 Comments
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