by Darcy Thomas Dabbling with PHP and Open XML, I built a tool that automatically produces an Open XML spreadsheet file, complete with formulas and formatting from a CSV file. I used this to turn CSV files produced by my bank into something more workable...

Using Maarten Balliauws's PHPExcel S DK http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel and various formats created by financial applications and online banking websites this article will show you how to create an Excel spreadsheet with some basic functions and conditional...

by Darcy Thomas The Open XML Developer site has an article by Bryce Telford at http://Open XMLdeveloper.org/articles/4283.aspx on transforming HL7 formatted XML file to an Open XML document. This technique is valid for transforming any XML file into an...

We have a new sample on the site written in Java. The code creates an Open XML document using an XML data file, document as a template and XSLT. This sample duplicates an earlier sample which was written in c#. The XML data file is a sample of the international...

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...

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...

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 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 Sheela E.N, Sonata Software Limited This article explains about changes made in Open XML SDK April 2008 CTP compared to Open XML SDK June 2007 CTP Open XML SDK provides a set of strongly typed classes to create and consume Office Open XML based...

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...

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...

Microsoft has announced the next Office Developer Conference , to be held February 10-13, 2008, in San Jose, California. This event covers Microsoft Office System technologies from a developer perspective, and will include a variety of sessions and hands...

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...

Microsoft announced yesterday that the Open XML Translator project has released version 1.0. As it says in the official announcement : Developers of the open source project to produce a translator between OpenDocument format (ODF) and Open XML document...