Sometimes developers want to use the strongly-typed object model of the Open XML SDK in combination with code written using LINQ to XML. You may want to use functionality from PowerTools for Open XML (which is written using LINQ to XML), and you may want...

Recently I had a question about how to import the contents of one cell in one table into a cell in a different table in another document. As you probably know, moving content from one document to another in Open XML is complicated, because of interrelated...

Scenario: You need to generate a document for a book, and you want each chapter to start on an odd-numbered page, so that the chapter title page is on the right-hand side of the binding. This question has been asked on the forum here at OpenXMLDeveloper...

Sometimes the easiest way to accomplish a particular task is to write an axis method that returns just the elements in an Open XML document that you are interested in. Sometimes you want to write the axis method in a lazy fashion so that it performs as...

This screen-cast continues our discussion about table markup in WordprocessingML. Going beyond the basic structure of tables, it discusses various issues about rendering. This screen-cast explains the w:cnfStyle element, and how it relates to the w:tblLook...

This screen-cast discusses table markup in WordprocessingML. It explains the basic structure of tables, and discusses how WordprocessingML table markup differs from HTML. The following screen-cast in this series (coming soon) examines various issues around...

This is the nineteenth screen-cast in a series on writing Recursive Pure Functional Transformations (RPFT) of XML. In this screen-cast, I discuss an interesting idiom / pattern for doing complex transforms of XML elements. Return to the Table of Contents...

A number of years ago, I gave a talk at a tech conference, and in the feedback, I received a ‘complaint’ that I didn’t really explain how I was writing the code that I was publishing as part of PowerTools for Open XML – code such...

This is the eighteenth screen-cast in a series on writing Recursive Pure Functional Transformations (RPFT) of XML. In this screen-cast, I discuss why the transform methods return object instead of some other type such as XObject, XElement, or XNode. The...

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...

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...

This is the seventeenth screen-cast in a series on writing Recursive Pure Functional Transformations (RPFT) of XML. In this screen-cast, we discuss transforming attributes. If you have been following along closely, you probably could imagine what this...

This is a guest post by Ronen Almog, showing an innovative use of Open XML with SAP. This Open XML application combines two of the main scenarios of Open XML: Document Generation, and Content Extraction. As a way to make it easier for SAP users to maintain...

Bookmarks provide a convenient way in WordprocessingML to provide insertion points for various items, such as text, images, etc. Previously, I have outlined how to programmatically retrieve and replace text within a bookmark. In a recent project, a client...

A question in a forum here at OpenXMLDeveloper.org clued me into a cool new way to add Open XML functionality into a PowerShell cmdlet - PowerShell 2.0 and above enable you to directly embed C# code in a PowerShell script using the Add-Type cmdlet. To...