Let me inform you that my last book on Office Open XML (OOXML) format for Word and Excel 2007 documents was just issued by ***, an italian publisher (www.***.it).

TITLE: “Open XML, guida allo sviluppo” (free translation: “Developing Open XML documents treatment”)

Its basic idea: use VBA macros and some VB . NET managed code for VSTO, chiefly for content query on .docx or .xlsx files on disk, achieving original document management (e.g. retrieving of all documents containing some text, putting results as hyperlink; loading only data and/or formulas in a new sheet, summarize values from many worksheets;  and other advanced examples are included).

The book presents an introduction to newest OpenXml.dll for specific OOXML treatment , too.

At present maybe it is the first practical book about OOXML.

Thanks for paying attention

Gianni Giaccaglini

giannigiac@tin.it 

Hey.. thats great...
There are a few strange things with Excel 2007. Like for instance, numFmts node of stylesheet document should always be the first sibling of "stylesheet" node.
When a theme=0 is referenced in the stylesheet, it actually means theme=1, and theme=1 means theme=0... and also for 2, and 3.. the rest of the index references are correct. I do not know why the first four are always swapped like this.

Are oyu aware of these wierd facts? Or is there any explanation for it. If not, you can add these two to your book.

Regards,
nk