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Discussions around the next version of Office. Most likely this will be about the Office Open XML Formats.

XML in Office Developer Portal

posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:41 AM by BrianJones
There are a number of great sources of information on the new Office Open XML formats out there. I like to think that this blog is one of those sources, but there is also the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community, and the Ecma TC45 site. Another great source Read More
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Sample code for generating a SpreadsheetML file

posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:57 AM by BrianJones
Doug Mahugh has another post on programmatically generating a basic Office Open XML file. This latest post shows how to create a simple SpreadsheetML file: This post covers the code for a CreateXlsx program that creates a simple Open XML spreadsheet Read More
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Politics behind standardization

posted Friday, July 14, 2006 6:00 PM by BrianJones
Stephen McGibbon has an interesting blog post based on his observations of the politics behind standardization. He's been involved in a lot of the ODF and Open XML discussions and started looking deeper into the reasons behind ODF going through ISO even Read More
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New project for converting WordprocessingML to HTML

posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:53 AM by BrianJones
It looks like there is a new project starting up on the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community for transforming WordprocessingML into HTML using XSLT. The first article posted here (http://openxmldeveloper.org/articles/333.aspx) starts off just mapping into basic Read More
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Word XHTML - Bullets and Numbering

posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:34 AM by BrianJones
This is the fourth post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature. In earlier posts, Zeyad discussed a general overview of the XHTML, details on XHML compliance, and how we map styles to semantics. Today Zeyad is discussing Read More
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More information on the Open XML translator and some questions answered

posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:48 AM by BrianJones
There were a lot of great comments from last week's announcement about the creation of an open source project to transform between the Ecma Office Open XML formats and the OASIS OpenDocument format. Rather than respond to all the comments and questions Read More
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Open XML Translator project announced (ODF support for Office)

posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:03 PM by BrianJones
Today we are announcing the creation of the Open XML Translator project that will help translate between the Office Open XML formats and the OpenDocument format. We've talked a lot about the value the Open XML formats bring, and one of them of course Read More
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TechEd presentation on Office Open XML available for download

posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:00 PM by BrianJones
For those of you who weren't able to attend my talk at TechEd 2006 on the file formats, you can actually view it online here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032297834&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Read More
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Sample code for creating a DOCX file

posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:08 PM by BrianJones
Doug Mahugh had a post a couple days ago where he provides some basic code that will generate a WordprocessingML document: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2006/06/27/649007.aspx Some folks have been asking about examples of how to create a basic Read More
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Back from Sapporo - tons of progress in Ecma

posted Monday, June 26, 2006 5:21 PM by BrianJones
Well, it has definitely been a pretty hectic couple weeks, and it's going to take me awhile to get caught up. I was in Boston two weeks ago for TechEd, and in Sapporo last week for Ecma meetings. Both were great trips, but it's nice to be home. The meetings Read More
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Code snippets for working with the Open XML formats

posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 6:13 PM by BrianJones
This is my first time on an airplane with wifi, so I'm pleased to bring this news to you from somewhere over the pacific. I've been promising for the past year that one of the big things we're going to do this time around that we didn't do much of with Read More
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More on the PDF support in Office

posted Friday, June 16, 2006 4:31 PM by BrianJones
In the comments of my latest post around the legal issues we’re currently dealing with from Adobe around our PDF support in Office 2007 a number of folks were wondering when Adobe would provide their side of the story. Well while I was down in Tech Ed, Read More
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Interoperability by design

posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:41 AM by BrianJones
Today we announced the formation of a new customer council focused on interoperability (how to make technologies work better together). I'm sure you've noticed over time that Microsoft has made a strong commitment to work towards better interoperability, Read More
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Learn more about Word 2007's support for seperating data from presentation

posted Monday, June 12, 2006 2:51 PM by BrianJones
If you're heading out to TechEd this week like I am, you should definitely plan on attending Tristan Davis' talk on Thursday afternoon that covers the new functionality in Word 2007 for custom XML solutions. This talk goes into great detail on the Read More
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TechEd Boston

posted Friday, June 09, 2006 7:56 AM by BrianJones
Who else is going to be heading out to Boston next week for Tech Ed 2006? I'll be out there for a couple days in the middle of the week. I'm presenting Wednesday from 5:30-6:45, so be sure to swing by and say hi. Here's the information on my session: Read More
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