03/21/06. It's official: we're now live! We have 40 members already signed up — the founding members in the announcement below — and the doors are open to anyone who wants to join! This article tells you all the details about what to expect and how to participate....

11/21/05. Microsoft's decision to standardize on the Open XML Formats for the next release of Office was based on a variety of criteria from Office developers and users. Brian Jones explains some of the thinking behind the decision....

12/15/05, Brussels, Belgium. Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, the British Library, Essilor, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, NextPage Inc., Statoil ASA and Toshiba join together to form TC45, the Ecma technical committee that will draft the new Open XML standard....

A comprehensive set of code snippets for the .NET 3.0 packaging API has been released! Get all the details on the posts on OpenXmlDeveloper.org and Kevin Boske's blog .

Creating Open XML documents from a template can help simplify your work and allow for changes to the look and feel of your documents without modifying your code. But in some cases, you'll want to create Open XML documents from scratch, without using an...

Click here to download the WordProcessingML snippets In this upcoming series of articles I'll be explaining various coding scenarios using Open XML. To relieve you of the burden of laboriously copy / pasting code, I will extend the available OpenXml code...

This article is part of the " Building documents with code snippets " series . This first article on working with the WordProcessingML snippets will go into the details of three snippets you can use to form a basic framework for handling WordProcessingML...

This article is part of the " Building documents with code snippets " series. The first two snippets I'll discuss which actually modify your documents are AddParagraph and RemoveParagraph. These snippets can be used to work with paragraphs inside various...

This article is part of the " Building documents with code snippets " series. This article covers the manner in which a table is represented in WordProcessingML. Tables are obviously more complex than the paragraphs we talked about in the previous article...

Roch Baduel shares an example of how to create a custom DOCX class and then use it to generate formatted text in a WordProcessingML document....

John Greer, Open XML Developer Group member, has contributed two more complex sample documents: a Word 2007 document that exercises various formatting options, and the full text of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland,” with illustrations. These documents provide typical examples of the Open XML file formats in action.  Each is provided in DOC and DOCX format....

We have two new articles on the site today, both from Sanjay Kumar Madhva. Each covers a slightly different task related to Open XML programming, and each is implemented on a different development platform. "Open XML Document Image Conversion" is the...

Ecma has published an updated draft of the spec for the Office Open XML Formats Standard. Here's a link to it: http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/TC45-2006-50.htm This is great news for Open XML developers. The updated draft has...

Beta 2 of the 2007 Microsoft Office System was released on May 23. This is a public beta, meaning anyone can download a copy. Now any developer can get their hands on software that generates and consumes Office Open XML documents. You can sign up to download...

Contributed by: Wouter van Vugt of Info Support . Wouter is responsible for development and support of a .NET training curriculum with an emphasis on C#, ASP.NET and Office development. The Package Explorer utility provides the ability to open an Open...