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This screen-cast introduces a small Word 2013 "app" that enables you to select content in a Word document, click a button in a task pane, and see the markup for the selected content. Further, you can modify the markup in the task pane, click a button, and replace the selected content in the...

Most users of Microsoft Office are aware that you can directly embed an Excel spreadsheet (XLSX) in a Word document (DOCX). In Open XML terms, the XLSX is stored in a binary part. In addition, there is an image of the view of that spreadsheet, also in its own separate part. This screen-cast shows how...

This is the second in a 2-part screen-cast series on controlling vertical spacing in an Open XML WordprocessingML document. When generating word-processing documents, you sometimes want to control vertical spacing very explicitly. You may want to control how much space there is between lines in a paragraph...

I've recorded a 2-part screen-cast series on controlling vertical spacing in an Open XML WordprocessingML document. When generating word-processing documents, you sometimes want to control vertical spacing very explicitly. You may want to control how much space there is between lines in a paragraph...

I've received a couple of questions recently about bibliographies. I sat down to write a blog post about it, and then realized it would benefit from a screen-cast that explains the markup. The following screen-cast walks through bibliography markup. Bibliographies use custom XML parts, so in addition...

In document processing parlance, shredding a document is the process of dividing a source document according to certain rules, and creating a number of documents from the source document. This is useful, for instance, when you have a huge document, and you want to divide it into multiple documents to...

Using custom XML parts and content controls, we can create smarter documents that provide needed functionality for users. Content controls and custom XML parts enable us to integrate business data with content in a document. In addition, content controls can be used to delineate data or content in a...

The default approach to working with DocumentBuilder 2.0 enables you to take bits and pieces of multiple documents and assemble them together into a new document. However, there is an interesting scenario that this approach does not handle. You may want to import a document into a cell in a table, into...

In a previous screen-cast , I showed how to retrieve the text of an OpenXML WordprocessingML document. In this post and screen-cast, I introduce some code that enables you to replace the text of a bookmark. This blog post and screen-cast build on the previous screen-cast. In that screen-cast, I used...

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 this series. Link Summary Screen-cast #1 Explains...

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-casts around Open XML WordprocessingML TOCs...

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#. Because XML DOM is standardized, translating the code...

This post is the third in a series of three screen-casts that introduce DocumentBuilder 2.0. This screen-cast builds on the previous two screen-casts where I walk through the process of transferring comments from multiple source documents into a destination document. In this final screen-cast in the...

This post is the second in a series of three screen-casts that introduce DocumentBuilder 2.0. This screen-cast builds on the previous screen-cast where I walk through the process of transferring comments from multiple source documents into a destination document. In this screen-cast, I insert images...

This post contains the first of three planned screen-casts that introduces DocumentBuilder 2.0, talks about interrelated markup, and explores how DocumentBuilder solves developer issues with regards to interrelated markup. While this screen-cast is a bit long (20 minutes), it will be important for developers...

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...

On June 20, 2011 (two days ago), I posted an update to DocumentBuilder . After more extensive testing, I found and fixed a few bugs in less common scenarios, including if comments in multiple sources contain images, multiple sources contain endnotes with images, and a few other situations. If you have...

At long last, I have completed and posted a much requested and sorely needed update to DocumentBuilder . DocumentBuilder is code that is part of the PowerTools for Open XML project that handles issues of interrelated markup, enabling you to generate new documents from existing documents in a variety...

A reoccurring question around Open XML is how to search and replace text in a word-processing document. There have been several attempts at presenting example code to do this, however, until now I have not seen any examples that correctly implement this. This post presents some example code that implements...

by Lawrence Hodson (aka Sharky) For Microsoft .NET developers the Open XML SDK v2.0 promises a friendlier API for delving into the new Office document formats. It is built over the System.IO.Packaging API, but adds strongly-typed classes, so I thought I’ve give it a whirl. I’ve not used either API’s...

Displaying Open XML documents in Silverlight with TextGlow By James Newton-King The Office Open XML file format has opened up a new range of possibilities to working with documents. The Microsoft Office 2007 suite of products replaces the old binary formats and produces documents in a parser friendly...

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 Mallika Biswas, Sonata Software Limited This article explains how to create a WordprocessingML document using python. Steps to be followed: 1. Create document.xml. 2. Create [Content_Types].xml 3. Create _rels\.rels file i.e the relationship file. 4. Zip them. 5. Rename the zip file as .docx...

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...