August, 2011

I had thought that there were only going to be four screen-casts in this series on adding / updating tables-of-contents in OpenXML WordprocessingML documents. However, I can see that there are now going to be at least six. In the screen-cast that I present...

Here is the last of four screen-casts on tables-of-contents in OpenXML WordprocessingML documents. In this screen-cast, I show how to use Word Automation Services to repaginate a document and update the TOC. Here is the complete list of screen-casts in...

I recently received a question about the use of the glossary document. In a nutshell, in DOCX, it is used for the placeholder text for content controls. In DOTX, it is used for the content for quick parts. The following 3 minute video demonstrates these...

Here is a short screen-cast that explains what DocumentBuilder 2.0 is all about, in less than seven minutes.

When sending a presentation to customers or others outside of your organization, you often want to remove speaker notes. It is easy enough to use PowerPoint automation to remove the speaker notes , but if you are processing presentations server-side,...

In the first screen-cast in this series, I examined the markup for tables-of-contents in WordprocessingML documents. In the second screen-cast, I presented a bit of code that showed how to insert a non-updated TOC into a document, and to set the <w...

Many Open XML developers need to generate documents, and then generate and insert an updated table-of-contents for the document. TOC's in Open XML are not hard, but they require a bit of explanation. This post introduces the second in a series of...

Many Open XML developers need to generate documents, and then generate and insert an updated table-of-content for the document. TOC's in Open XML are not hard, but they require a bit of explanation. This blog post introduces the first of several screen...

Recently I wrote some code that implemented search-and-replace for Open XML WordprocessingML documents . I wrote that code for an Open XML developer who needed to implement that functionality using XML DOM, although with a different language than C#....