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Use the Open XML formats today with Office XP & Office 2003

posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:53 PM by BrianJones
A coworker of mine, just reminded me that for those folks interested in using the new Open XML formats but don't want to upgrade to Office 2007 Beta 2, we also released a public preview of the compatibility packs (thanks Jon!). This is one Read More
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Custom Defined Schemas

posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:23 PM by BrianJones
I've talked a lot about the value of "Custom Schema" support in Office. Anytime I give talks on the file formats, I make sure to spend some time also talking about the support for custom schema. I don't think I've really given the basic intro though on Read More
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MSDN Webcast: Building Microsoft Office 2003 Solutions Using XML and XML Web Services

posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:50 AM by BrianJones
There's a webcast next Thursday (Nov. 3) that will show ways you can leverage Office 2003's XML functionality to integrate with Web Services. It will go into both the file formats and the custom defined schema support, and should only last about a hour, Read More
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Real world example: Shredding Office documents and storing in a backend database

posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:35 PM by BrianJones
I've been receiving various e-mails from folks showing solutions they are building on top of the existing Office XML support, and I wanted to start posting some of these examples. Today, I wanted to post an e-mail I received from Robert Nederby who works Read More
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Knowledge is the "key" when talking about XML support in Office

posted Friday, October 21, 2005 3:33 PM by BrianJones
There has been a lot of speculation over what the XML support in Office really entails. I think knowledge is really the key here, and I ask all of you who are interested to take some time to actually get your feet wet and understand the facts. I've made Read More
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More tools that work on top of Word XML

posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:59 AM by BrianJones
There is a company called CambridgeDocs that has built a tool that will transform from WordML into XSL-FO. Here's a link to their site: http://www.cambridgedocs.com/products_wordml2FO.htm This is just another example of a group that has leveraged the Read More
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Example of using XSLT to import DB info into Word

posted Monday, October 17, 2005 2:52 PM by BrianJones
Here's a blog entry I just came across where the user is building an XSLT that will transform their data into WordprocessingML (http://dbdesc.com/blog/?p=10). It's followed up by another post that was made today (http://dbdesc.com/blog/?p=11). This is Read More
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Converting WordprocessingML into HTML (for easy viewing)

posted Friday, September 30, 2005 11:21 AM by BrianJones
Many people have asked me if there is an easy way to go from Word XML into XHTML. I've already mentioned that we have a tool available that transforms from Word 2003 XML into HTML. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=19676b18-1bcd-4852-93ba-0b5a203ea731&displaylang=en Read More
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Intro to Word XML Part 6: Locking down your XML structures

posted Friday, September 09, 2005 2:31 PM by BrianJones
What a busy week. I've been trying to keep up with all the news while also getting ready for PDC (and still keeping up with all my regular responsibilities helping to ship Office 12). I'm heading down to PDC on Monday, and my session is Tuesday afternoon. Read More
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Intro to Excel XML Part 3: Displaying your Data

posted Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:20 AM by BrianJones
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
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Capturing XML and Inserting XML in a Word Document

posted Friday, August 19, 2005 10:26 AM by BrianJones
In almost any solution you build in Word, there will be times that you either want to capture the content from part of the document, or insert some additional content at some location in the document. One example scenario I've seen for this are clause Read More
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Intro to Word XML Part 5: Opening custom XML

posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:44 PM by BrianJones
Intro to Word XML Part 5: Opening custom XML files I've been talking for awhile now about the support for custom defined schemas in Office. I'm actually going to pull together a post in the next week or so that addresses the uses and motivations behind Read More
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Transforming Word XML to XSL-FO

posted Thursday, August 11, 2005 1:29 PM by BrianJones
We put an article up back in the winter on transforming from WordprocessingML into XSL-FO. From there, you can go into other formats like PDF. Not sure if you guys have already seen this, but if not you should check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/word/codesamples/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/officewordwordmltoxsl-fo.asp Read More
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Intro to Word XML Part 4: Schema Validation

posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:01 PM by BrianJones
In the Intro to Word XML Part 3, I showed how you could add your own XML to a Word document. I also briefly touched on how you could take advantage of the XML to make programming against the document a lot easier. Let's now briefly explore data validation. Read More
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Slashdot article on Apple outputting Word XML format

posted Friday, August 05, 2005 9:56 AM by BrianJones
Slashdot: MS Office XML Format Now in TextEdit I saw this the other day on slashdot. I have to admit that this is the first time I've heard about this and I'm not really familiar with exactly what is being output by TextEdit. In the slashdot post there Read More
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