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Spreadsheet performance - Shared Formulas

posted Monday, May 29, 2006 4:05 AM by BrianJones
I wanted to follow up on the thread I started a couple weeks ago discussing the design goals behind spreadsheetML. There's a whole host of things we've done to make sure that the move to XML formats is a huge benefit to developers, without it actually Read More
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Does tag size matter?

posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:54 AM by BrianJones
Surprisingly, I haven't seen much information out there discussing the performance impacts of XML tag name lengths (ie using "<c>" instead of "<table-cell>"). My last post about some of the design goals behind SpreadsheetML raised some questions Read More
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Design Goals Behind SpreadsheetML

posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:11 AM by BrianJones
It's been awhile since I've talked in detail about the SpreadsheetML schema and I apologize. I had a number of posts back in the summer which talked through Office XP's SpreadsheetML format that we built about 6 years ago, but obviously a lot has changed Read More
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Updated draft of the Open XML spec coming this month

posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:23 AM by BrianJones
I'm in New York right now, and I was talking to some folks yesterday about the work that we've been doing in Ecma. It reminded me that I hadn't posted very much information on by blog though about how the meeting in London went last month. Adam Farquhar Read More
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Comments from Tim Bray on OpenDocument

posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:01 PM by BrianJones
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
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New blog on Excel '12'

posted Friday, September 23, 2005 12:51 PM by BrianJones
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
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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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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
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Intro to Excel XML Part 2: Displaying your data

posted Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:27 PM by BrianJones
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
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Introduction to Excel XML Part 1: creating a simple table

posted Monday, June 27, 2005 5:22 PM by BrianJones
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
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