Browse by Tags
All Tags »
Word (RSS)
I'd been meaning to post a write-up on how to create a simple SpreadsheetML document from scratch, but just haven't had the time this week to pull it all together. Hopefully I'll get that out early next week. I had already done a similar post for WordprocessingML
Read More...
I posted earlier this year on the support for custom defined schema in wordprocessingML via the new content controls functionality. The key reason for opening the file formats was to make Office a more valuable platform for solution builders. We wanted
Read More...
Are the Office Open XML formats too complex? Not really. They are definitely very rich, but the structure of the formats is pretty simple. As you start to get into more complicated features, the complexity of the formats also kicks in though. To show
Read More...
Here's another application that is able to take advantage of the Office Open XML formats. MindManager is able to transform "mind maps" into the Open XML format. This is really cool: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=235048 Doug Mahugh was
Read More...
The Word team has started up a new blog, and Jon Bailor has made the first introduction post: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/ archive/2006/09/15/756756.aspx I've talked with Jon, and he's really excited about giving folks some insight into
Read More...
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...
Here's a post from Eric White where he provides some code samples for using XLinq to parse a WordprocessingML document: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/archive/2006/08/01/685535.aspx Here's the description of what Eric was trying to accomplish: "Recently,
Read More...
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...
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
Read More...
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...
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 true
Read More...
I just ran across this link today and was wondering if anyone else had checked it out: http://shudson310.blogspot.com/2006/05/docbook-xsl-170-released.html It looks like there is a docbook project up on sourceforge that has XSLT support for going from
Read More...
There is a new article that will be in the June MSDN magazine that shows how to work with a Word document's properties programmatically. The author, Ken Getz has actually been working on building a collection of code snippets that people can use to do
Read More...
You can create your very own Open XML editor! Over on openxmldeveloper.org , there is a new article that shows how you can quickly generate an extremely simple editor for creating WordprocessingML files. When I say "really simple" I mean it though. I'm
Read More...
I've had a few folks ask me about the XML format from Word 2003, and whether or not it would be supported in Word 2007. I mentioned this back in the fall , but in case you missed it let me repeat that the Word 2003 format will continue to be supported
Read More...