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Recently, I received a question on one of forums here on OpenXMLDeveloper.org - how do you control the height for a table row, and also how to set the font size, background color, and etc. for a cell in a table in PresentationML. Rather than directly answer the question, I recorded a screen-cast that...

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, you probably don't want to rely on automation...

Last week, the Office Interoperability team updated the Learn Open Specifications and Interoperability page in the Open Specifications Developer Center . This update features the debut of the Open Specifications Interactive Pivot, 9 new learning modules, and one new article. Check out the Open Specifications...

One of the most effective ways to build document generation systems is to enable creation of a template document. Generated documents are a product of the template document and some data or code that replaces certain key portions of the template document with content that is specific to the generated...

You may have seen that the implementer notes for Office 2007 SP2 for ECMA-376 and ODF1.1 are now available. ECMA-376 Implementer Notes for Office 2007 SP2 On the ECMA-376 Implementer Notes Site you will find detailed information about Office’s support for the ECMA-376 specification . These notes will...

Open XML SDK V2. The first CTP of V2 of the Open XML SDK is now available for download. This release includes a high-level DOM (document object model) for Open XML development, as well as several tools to streamline Open XML development: The OpenXmlDiff utility identifies differences in the markup in...

Article by Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains about changes made in Open XML SDK April 2008 CTP compared to Open XML SDK June 2007 CTP Open XML SDK provides a set of strongly typed classes to create and consume Office Open XML based documents (i.e Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint...

Microsoft unveiled today the roadmap for the Open XML SDK that was released last June as a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version. After collecting developer feedback through the CTP release, they've put together a two-phased release plan to get developers a released version of the API quickly (May...

The attached white paper broadly describes how DrawingML is different from Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in terms of design goals, target audience and the problem areas intended to address. This paper hopes to raise the level of awareness and education of “Why DrawingML cannot be merged with SVG” In...

MSDN has published a comprehensive set of videos of a 2-day Open XML developer workshop . These videos cover the content that was posted on OpenXMLDeveloper recently here . The instructors for this workshop were Doug Mahugh of Microsoft and Chris Predeek of the Ted Pattison Group , and the workshop was...

This article has upated versions of the simple sample Open XML documents that were posted in March 2006. The latest versions attached here were created with the shipping version of the 2007 Microsoft Office system as of August 2007.

Attached is a downloadable copy of "Open XML Explained" by Wouter Van Vugt, the first book on Open XML development. The sample documents for the book are also available for download here . This 128-page book covers the basics of Open XML, including many of the topics covered in the Open XML developer...

During the first half of 2007, trainers from Microsoft, Sonata, InfoSupport, Allette, Predeek Consulting and others delivered Open XML developer workshops in over 30 countries. These workshops were all structured around a set of inter-related presentations and hands-on labs that cover typical Open XML...

Update: I've updated this paper based on feedback I've received from the community. I'd like to thank those people who have provided support in helping clarify the level of Accessibility in the specification. This report is still in DRAFT form. Again, it is intended to serve as a basis for public comment...

By Vijayeta Tilak of Sonata Software Limited. This article describes an application that presents two existing presentation documents in a browser, with a drag&drop interface (implemented in JavaScript) for creating a new presentation from selected slides in the two existing presentations. This type...

By Vijayeta Tilak of Sonata Software Limited. The article describes an application that would display contents of a presentation document in a web page. This application, which basically uses a packaging architecture to read any PresentationML document and use a simple browser on any client machine,...

by Vijayeta Tilak of Sonata Software limited. This Article describes the working of an application, which allows slides of one presentation document to be moved into another. This application is useful in environments that do not support opening and editing of a presentation document. The application...

By Vijayeta Tilak of Sonata Software Limited This Article is all about exploring one of the features of a presentation document, Animation, using System.IO.Packaging API and ASP.NET A presentation document can be animated by making changes in the contents of the file, ‘slideX.xml’ The ASP.NET application...

The 2007 Microsoft Office system will use the Open XML file formats as their default format, and Microsoft has started to publish white papers, code samples, and other Open XML content for developers. The following is an overview of some of the Open XML information that is currently available on MSDN...

Article by: MuthuKumar Arjunan and Vijayeta of Sonata Software Ltd. This article explores the interoperable potential of the Open XML file formats. We will show how a simple browser on any client machine can create a PresentationML document (PPTX) on a web server. The browser provides the GUI, and the...

Article by: Vijayeta.t of SONATA SOFTWARE LIMITED This article explains how to fetch data from a database and use that data to create a PresentationML document. Each slide in the presentation consists of a heading and a subtitle, and the data for these textboxes is retrieved from a table in database...

Article By : Vijayeta.t of SONATA SOFTWARE LIMITED The objective of this article is to create an OpenXML PresentationML using the .NET 3.0 System.IO.Packaging API. The user is provided with a GUI to enter the text which would appear in slides. The UI consists of multiline textboxes for the header and...

Click here to download the WordProcessingML snippets In this upcoming series of articles I'll be explaining various coding scenarios using Open XML. To relieve you of the burden of laboriously copy / pasting code, I will extend the available OpenXml code snippets and provide these new scenarios in that...

Beta 2 of the 2007 Microsoft Office System was released on May 23. This is a public beta, meaning anyone can download a copy. Now any developer can get their hands on software that generates and consumes Office Open XML documents. You can sign up to download the beta at the 2007 Microsoft Office system...

LASTEST VERSION OF THE CUSTOM UI EDITOR - updated to work with the RTM build of Office 2007 and Beta build of Office 2010 - ATTACHED TO THIS POST The 2007 Microsoft Office System has an all-new "ribbon" interface which developers can customize in many ways. One of the ways to extend the ribbon is to...