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Comments from Tim Bray on OpenDocument

I'm sorry to post about this subject with all the other stuff I've been promosing to cover but I just read this and wanted to share my thoughts. I was reading Tim Bray's post the other day about the OpenOffice conference (http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/10/01/Open-Office-Conference). Read More
posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:01 PM by BrianJones | 33 Comments
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New blog on Excel '12'

David Gainer has started a blog discussing the next version of Excel. David is the GPM of the Excel team, and this should be a great blog for those of you interested in Excel. http://blogs.msdn.com/excel In David's first post, he talks about an old limitation Read More
posted Friday, September 23, 2005 12:51 PM by BrianJones | 17 Comments
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Intro to Excel XML Part 3: Displaying your Data

At this point, we're getting really close to PDC and I can't wait. At PDC, I'm going to go through some examples of the new formats in all three applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). I'll continue to talk about Office 2003 as well, but there will Read More
posted Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:20 AM by BrianJones | 1 Comments
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Simple debugging of Office XML files

Those previous two posts were meant to help people unfamiliar with Office XML get a taste of how you would go about building your own spreadsheets. The power of doing this with XML is that you can read and generate these files anywhere you want. You don't Read More
posted Friday, July 01, 2005 4:25 PM by BrianJones | 10 Comments
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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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