Article by Chhavi Kumar Agrawal, Sonata Software Limited This article explains about line shape and how line properties like color, width, and head/tail etc details of line shape are represented in DrawingML language within drawing part stored in SpreadsheetML...

Article by Mallika Biswas,Sonata software Limited. This article explains how to copy table content of a WordprocessingML document to a SpreadsheetML document using System.IO.Packaging API. Steps: 1. Take an existing word document having a table with any...

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...

Article by Vineela Kavoori, Sonata Software Limited This article explains about how to delete comments from the WordProcessingML document using Core Java To delete comments from WordProcessingML document, the steps to be followed are: 1. Unzip the word...

Article by Mallika Biswas, Sonata Software Limited This article explains how to delete footnotes and endnotes from an existing word document using System.IO.Packaging API in C# project. Steps to be followed: 1. Create a new C# project. Go to references...

Article by Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains about how to delete track changes (revision) details from the SpreadsheetML document using System.IO.Packaging API in C# project. Whenever changes are made to the shared workbook, the...

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...

Open XML to Daisy translator (Office Open XML WordProcessingML document to Daisy DTBook document) V1 Alpha is now available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxml-daisy/ for download. This release has covered 13 important features of Daisy. To know...

Article by Vineela Kavoori, Sonata Software Limited This article describes how to remove macro related details from the existing macro enabled word document using core Java. To remove a macro from WordProcessingML document, the steps to be followed are...

Accessibility experts reviewed Ecma-376 Open XML (DIS29500) and created Accessibility Guidelines that must be followed to ensure that Open XML implementations are accessible. This is a working draft and the authors welcome additional feedback and comments...

Accessibility experts reviewed Ecma-376 Open XML (DIS29500) and created Accessibility Guidelines that must be followed to ensure that Open XML implementations are accessible. This is a working draft and the authors welcome additional feedback and comments...

Article by Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains the process of adding mail merge in WordProcessingML using System.IO.Packaging API in C# project. 1. Create a C# project and a reference to WindowsBase.dll located at C:\Program Files...

Article by Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article briefly explains the concept of Mail Merge and how this information is stored in WordProcessingML. A mail merge is a word processing feature that allows in creating common letters, mailing labels...

Sonata Software Limited based out of Bangalooru, India, in collaboration with Microsoft and the Daisy Consortium, is developing an open source converter to convert Word documents to Daisy DTBook documents. Please find the press release of the same at...

Article by Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains how header and footer details and the style applied are stored in SpreadsheetML document and the options that are available in Office Open XML file format to apply header, footer in...