Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

July 2005 - Posts

Office 12 Sessions at PDC

posted Friday, July 29, 2005 2:52 PM by BrianJones
It's really amazing how quickly this summer is going by. The Seahawks are starting up training camp out in Cheney, and we are now just a little over a month away from PDC where we'll be introducing a lot more of the new functionality for Office 12. A Read More
7 Comments
Filed Under: ,

Intro to Word XML Part 3: Using Your Own Schema

posted Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:03 PM by BrianJones
When we built the support for customer defined schemas into Word 2003 there were a couple scenarios we had in mind. The main goal though was that we wanted people to take existing Word documents and existing Word solutions, and make them more powerful. Read More
15 Comments
Filed Under: ,

Podcast from OfficeZealot available

posted Monday, July 25, 2005 10:04 AM by BrianJones
Chris and Charles from OfficeZealot called me a couple weeks ago and we talked about the new formats. They recorded the conversation and posted it online here: http://geeklenet.typepad.com/ozpodcast/2005/07/show_5_intervie.html. As you can imagine, being Read More
1 Comments
Filed Under:

Word XML's Context Free Chunks: Building a document from multiple pieces of content

posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 5:14 PM by BrianJones
This is a bit of a more obscure feature that I like to point out every now and then. It's great if you are interested in building up a Word document from multiple pieces of content. This is a common scenario I've talked with a number of folks about over Read More
17 Comments
Filed Under: ,

A couple other blogs from the Office team...

posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:25 PM by BrianJones
This is a bit off topic, but I wanted to point out that Steven Sinofsky (senior vice president of Office) has started blogging about careers at Microsoft and general discussions around college hiring. Here's a blurb from his first post: I wanted to Read More
0 Comments

Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

posted Monday, July 18, 2005 5:09 PM by BrianJones
If you read Part 1 of the Word XML Introduction, you saw the basics behind a Word document, as well as how basic formatting can be applied. The Word XML schemas were designed to closely map the structures that Word uses internally to represent a document. Read More
10 Comments
Filed Under: ,

Error in the Office 12 File Format FAQ (sorry)

posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:59 AM by BrianJones
Going into the announcement about the new formats last month there was just a ton of content that had to be reviewed. There were a couple of whitepapers, an FAQ, the press release, etc. I actually thought I'd done a pretty good job of reviewing the stuff Read More
3 Comments
Filed Under:

Office 12 XML Formats will support VBA (just not the default formats)

posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:54 PM by BrianJones
There are two forms of the new formats, one that supports VBA and one that doesn't. I just read this article, and it sounds like there have been some misunderstandings around this fact. If you read through the whitepapers (Microsoft Office Open XML Formats) Read More
11 Comments
Filed Under:

Article on Document Security

posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:29 PM by BrianJones
I just read this post on document security: http://news.com.com/Document+security+Tell+me+another+joke/2010-1071_3-5783062.html?part=rss&tag=5783062&subj=news Obviously there are many different issues here, some easier to solve than others. Some Read More
5 Comments
Filed Under: ,

Give us your input on the Microsoft Office Open XML Schemas

posted Monday, July 11, 2005 4:03 PM by BrianJones
Give us your feedback on the design of the file format. While the number one priority with the new formats will always be that the experience for the average end user doesn't change, I also care a lot about how useful they are to developers. I would love Read More
13 Comments
Filed Under:

Word XSLT: Data Only Transform

posted Friday, July 08, 2005 2:55 PM by BrianJones
If you've played around with Word 2003's XML support, you're probably aware that you can load your own schemas into Word and markup the document with your XML. When you save the file out, you get both the WordML and your XML mixed together. This allows Read More
23 Comments
Filed Under: ,

Try Office 2003 XML Yourself - Free Online Labs

posted Friday, July 08, 2005 9:51 AM by BrianJones
Are you interested in learning more about XML support in Office 2003? There are some great labs available online to help people get more familiar with the XML support in Office. These labs are available to everyone, you just need to set up an account Read More
4 Comments
Filed Under:

Why do Office ".xml" files behave differently from other ".xml" files?

posted Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:08 PM by BrianJones
Some of you who have worked with Office 2003 xml files may have noticed that while we use the ".xml" extension, the files still show unique icons and the original application is launched when you double click them. The files are totally valid XML files Read More
14 Comments
Filed Under:

Intro to Word XML Part 1: Simple Word Document

posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:39 PM by BrianJones
This post is for those of you interested in learning the basics behind WordprocessingML. That’s the schema that we built for Word 2003. You can save any Word document as XML, and we will use this schema to fully represent that document as XML. The new Read More
16 Comments
Filed Under: ,

Simple debugging of Office XML files

posted Friday, July 01, 2005 4:25 PM by BrianJones
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
10 Comments
Filed Under: ,