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

Working Draft 1.4 of the Ecma Office Open XML formats available

posted Friday, August 25, 2006 10:52 AM by BrianJones
Last week we held the 5th face-to-face meeting of Ecma TC45, and this time it was hosted by Microsoft. It was nice being able to stay out here in Redmond for once <g/>. At the meeting, we all agreed to make working draft 1.4 publicly available, Read More
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Creating a rich Wordprocessing Document from a database

posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:06 PM by BrianJones
I've been planning to start pulling together some real world examples around the ways in which people are using the Office Open XML formats to make document generation much easier. There are a lot of examples from Office 2003, and we're starting to see Read More
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ODF to Open XML Translator Project Update

posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:00 AM by BrianJones
Last week we held the Ecma TC45 face-to-face meetings out here in Redmond. It was a really productive week, and there should be a summary of the meetings posted to the Ecma site soon (in addition to an updated working draft of the spec). I'll blog more Read More
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There can be only one?

posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:29 AM by BrianJones
I had a few people point me at a couple of IBM blogs today (Bob Sutor and Rob Weir) and I have to admit I was a little disappointed to see that they are really working hard to continue to push negative views of the Office Open XML formats. Basically they Read More
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Using XHTML in a WordprocessingML document

posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:07 PM by BrianJones
This question has come up a few times, most recently over on the OpenXMLDeveloper site (http://openxmldeveloper.org/forums/477/ShowThread.aspx#477) The challenge a lot of folks have is that they want to generate a WordprocessingML document using pre-existing Read More
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Programmatic Manipulation of the Office Open XML Formats Virtual Lab

posted Monday, August 07, 2006 6:17 PM by BrianJones
There are quite a few online labs for Office, but I thought I'd point out this one in particular: Programmatic Manipulation of the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats Virtual Lab I have to admit that I haven't tried this one out myself yet, so I'll be Read More
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No license needed to use the Office Open XML formats

posted Friday, August 04, 2006 3:01 PM by BrianJones
I still get folks asking me questions about the licensing of the Open XML formats from time to time, and it seems there is a lot of misinformation out there. It's actually been well over 7 months since we made the move away from licensing the formats Read More
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Code snippets for generating WordprocessingML files

posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:01 PM by BrianJones
There are now a handful of code snippets from Wouter available over on the openxmldeveloper.org site that you should check out. He's been pulling these together over the past couple weeks, and they are really looking good. Here's what he has up there Read More
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Creating a PresentationML file with .Net

posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:21 PM by BrianJones
There is a new article up on the OpenXMLDeveloper.org site showing how to build a basic PresentationML file from text entered into a control. It lets you create numerous slides and specify the title and body for each slide. Check it out: http://openxmldeveloper.org/archive/2006/08/01/424.aspx Read More
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Office Developer Conference Videos Online

posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:22 AM by BrianJones
Well, it was all the way back in March when we had the Office Developer's conference out here in Redmond. It was a lot of fun, as we actually had a track dedicated to the Open XML formats. There were three separate presentations and we were able to get Read More
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Use the new Open XML formats to help out your favorite charity

posted Monday, July 31, 2006 1:49 PM by BrianJones
This is pretty cool: http://www.developwithoutborders.com/Default.aspx There are a lot of ways that we get involved with charities at Microsoft. I really love how easy they make it is for us to pick from just about any charitable organization out there Read More
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Spin Spin Sugar

posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 12:19 AM by BrianJones
OK, forgive the random Sneaker Pimps reference and I promise we will move off this topic of ODF politics we've had the past week or two, but I wanted to call out something that Stephen McGibbon pointed out to me today. He mentioned this blog post he made Read More
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Table models in file formats

posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:03 PM by BrianJones
In my post last week about the lack of table support in ODF, some folks were curious as to why the Ecma Open XML formats have three different table models. I explained that when you are designing a file format, you need to examine closely the target user Read More
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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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