Congratulations are due to the OASIS OpenDocument Technical Committee for the approval of OASIS ODF 1.2. As a document format geek, I follow the progress of all document format standards efforts, including ODF, and I’m very happy to see this new...

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...

When working with SpreadsheetML, one of the most common needs is to retrieve the data from a worksheet or a table in as easy a fashion as possible. There has been a fair amount written for C# developers to do this, but not nearly as much for VB.NET. Some...

I recently received a question about the use of the glossary document. In a nutshell, in DOCX, it is used for the placeholder text for content controls. In DOTX, it is used for the content for quick parts. The following 3 minute video demonstrates these...

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...

I had thought that there were only going to be four screen-casts in this series on adding / updating tables-of-contents in OpenXML WordprocessingML documents. However, I can see that there are now going to be at least six. In the screen-cast that I present...

In Memory of Jim Durkin Jim Durkin was a highly valued member of our team at Microsoft and the owner of Open XML marketing for Microsoft. While a member of the team for a short time, he was instrumental in making some significant strides with Open XML...

There is a whole lot of content (articles, screen-casts, and blog posts) on Open XML. Over the last couple of months, I have been making a list of as much Open XML content as I can find. I have found and categorized some 380 pieces of content, and organized...

Combining PowerShell and Open XML, PowerTools for Open XML is a powerful way to do server-side document processing. By using PowerTools in you own PS scripts you can manage and generate Word and Excel documents ! PowerTools is available for a while, thanks...

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...

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...

The members of the Open XML Formats Developer Group represent a wide variety of organizations, but they all have one thing in common: they're excited about working with the new formats. Here are some quotes from the founding members of the Open XML Formats...

Today at the Bio-IT World Magazine World Life Sciences Conference + Expo, Microsoft announced the formation of the BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group working to further integrate science and technology as a first step toward making personalized medicine...

This sample project shows how to extract embedded objects inside Open XML documents. The example here, written in C# and .NET, shows how to work with an Excel object embedded in a Word 2007 document. Contributed by Stephen Peront of Xinnovation....

01/31/06, Cupertino, California. The second face-to-face meeting of the TC45 committee was hosted by Apple, with 22 members attending....