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Friday, October 27, 2006 2:29 PM

Friday thoughts (Oct 27, 2006)

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
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:15 AM

Parsing WordprocessingML using XLinq

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,
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:53 PM

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

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 of the other
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:23 PM

Custom Defined Schemas

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
Posted by BrianJones | 16 Comments
Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:50 AM

MSDN Webcast: Building Microsoft Office 2003 Solutions Using XML and XML Web Services

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,
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:35 PM

Real world example: Shredding Office documents and storing in a backend database

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
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Friday, October 21, 2005 3:33 PM

Knowledge is the "key" when talking about XML support in Office

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
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Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:59 AM

More tools that work on top of Word XML

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
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Monday, October 17, 2005 2:52 PM

Example of using XSLT to import DB info into Word

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
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Friday, September 30, 2005 11:21 AM

Converting WordprocessingML into HTML (for easy viewing)

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
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Friday, September 09, 2005 2:31 PM

Intro to Word XML Part 6: Locking down your XML structures

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.
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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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