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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:25 AM

WordprocessingML Document Model

I thought it might be worthwhile to give a bit of an overview of the WordprocessingML model that you see in the Open XML standard. There are some people who've played with other formats like HTML or DocBook that are curious why WordprocessingML doesn't
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Monday, June 18, 2007 6:22 PM

Microsoft Office *not* dumped by Science and Nature

I saw this article today, and wanted to make sure that folks weren't confused about the latest with some of the publishers out there like Science as well as Nature. As I said last week, Murray and I have been talking with them trying to better understand
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Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:43 AM

Working with XBRL

Doug Mahugh had a post last week showing how you could leverage the custom schema support in OpenXML to create a report based on XBRL data. http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2007/03/09/xbrl-and-open-xml.aspx#comments Here's a screenshot of the document
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Friday, March 09, 2007 9:51 AM

Florida House of Reps leveraging OpenXML

Florida's House of Representatives had a pilot project last year where they were able to leverage the OpenXML formats to make it much easier to craft a bill: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=200428 Basically, as a bill goes
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:40 PM

Leveraging content in other formats

There is a really cool feature that we added into the WordprocessingML format that allows you to pass a file off to a consumer using alternative formats embedded within the WordprocessingML if you know that the consumer supports that alternate format.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:02 AM

The power of data-view separation in your documents

There is an excellent post over on the Word team blog that goes into details on how the new content controls feature (when parred with XML mapping) allows for powerful data-view separation in you wordprocessing documents. I've talked many times about
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Monday, December 11, 2006 4:11 PM

What’s up with all those “rsids”?

As many folks who worked with the 2003 wordprocessingML format have probably noticed by now, there are is a new set of attributes/elements in the Open XML wordprocessingML format that shows up all over the place. I'm talking about RSIDs. The rsid element
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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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Monday, October 23, 2006 11:44 AM

More on content controls

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
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Monday, October 16, 2006 4:56 PM

Simple wordprocessingML document (video demo)

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
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:03 AM

MindManager supports the Office Open XML formats

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
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Monday, September 18, 2006 9:27 AM

New Word team blog

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
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:07 PM

Using XHTML in a WordprocessingML document

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
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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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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 6:01 PM

Code snippets for generating WordprocessingML files

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
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