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...

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...

Submitted by: Sanjay Kumar Madhva, Srinidhi H. S., Pujari Yerriswamy (Sonata Software Ltd) In a prior article on OpenXmlDeveloper.org, we demonstrated that it is possible to create a word document by creating a few XML files and assembling them into 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...

Office Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office tool has been made available and is attached to this article. The highlights are: 1. Office custom UI editor is a tool to edit the Office custom UI XML part in the Open XML file format. 2. This version adds...

By Lawrence Hodson Introduction The Open XML SDK v2.0 provides an API to Microsoft .NET developers for automating the new Office document formats (docx, xlsx etc...). Until now, I used it for manipulating Word documents. For this sample I wanted to attempt...

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...

Want to try opening and reading Open XML programmatically, but don't have software that can easily create them? These sample documents are what you need: samples of simple Open XML word processing, spreadsheet and presentation files....

In one of the demos I am doing for the Dutch Office Developer Conference I show what is required for a Word document to have some text, a hyperlink and an image using the bare minimum of xml markup. I’ve expanded the sample with a custom xml part mapped to a content control....

Sometimes you want to iterate over all content controls in a WordprocessingML document. You may want to search for a content control with a specific tag, or you may want to process all content controls of a specific type. This blog post shows how to iterate...

This blog post is a request for information. We’re interested in doing a series on how to build with Open XML in the cloud and we want to hear what you are doing and how we can help. Are you developing for the cloud, and does Open XML figure into...

This third part of the series is a screencast that explains the Open XML elements needed for a pivot table and how to create the parts and elements needed. Part 1 showed how to create a pivot table using an existing spreadsheet. Part 2 showed the example...

This blog post introduces the first in a series of screen-casts that are specifically for a developer starting development with Open XML for the first time. It is a project that I've been meaning to work on for some time, and I recently received 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...

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...