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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:42 PM

Article on Proposal for Massachusetts to move to OpenDocument

I just read this article today about Massachusetts wanting to move away from closed formats and standardize on open formats (OpenOffice's XML and PDF). While it's not mentioned in the article, from what I've been told there is not yet a decision made,
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Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:20 AM

Intro to Excel XML Part 3: Displaying your Data

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
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Friday, August 19, 2005 10:26 AM

Capturing XML and Inserting XML in a Word Document

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
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:44 PM

Intro to Word XML Part 5: Opening custom XML

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
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 1:29 PM

Transforming Word XML to XSL-FO

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
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:35 PM

XPS (fka "Metro") on Channel 9

Jerry Dunietz is now up on Channel 9 talking about the XML Paper Specification. They use ZIP in a similar way to how we use it in Office to store our XML files. In fact, the APIs that they release for parsing through the contents of their packages (files)
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:01 PM

Intro to Word XML Part 4: Schema Validation

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.
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Friday, August 05, 2005 9:56 AM

Slashdot article on Apple outputting Word XML format

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
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Friday, August 05, 2005 9:52 AM

Article on TechWeb discussing the new XML formats

TechWeb: XML From Office? Microsoft's Open Promise http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/content_management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165700225#_ I thought Doug made some good points in his article, but there was still come skepticism at times.
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:42 PM

Redaction add-in for Word 2003

This isn't a post on XML or the file formats, but I just saw this and wanted to link to it. Just the other day a tool was posted that allows you to do redaction on a Word document. You can get the download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=028C0FD7-67C2-4B51-8E87-65CC9F30F2ED&displaylang=en
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