Brian Jones: Office Solutions

Today's another exciting day as we move closer to Beta 1. We are just wrapping up the MVP summit here in Redmond and we've finally announced another piece of functionality I've wanted to talk about for a long time now. This afternoon Steven Sinofsky announced...

This is old news to a lot of you, but I wanted to call attention to this again because I've read some articles where it appears that some folks still aren't aware of the work we are doing to make the new XML formats backwards compatible. I've already...

If you're interested in seeing the presentation I gave at PDC back in September, it's now available online: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/OFF/OFF304.htm#nopreload=1&autostart=1 It's about an hour and 15 mins. It's pretty much a developer...

Sorry for not posting any replies to the PDF questions sooner, it's been pretty busy. I have a list of all the questions and I'll try to write up responses to everything over the next week or two. Today, there are a couple of the earlier questions that...

I don't know where this myth began, but I have seen enough reference to it at this point that I think it's time to call it out directly. There is no such thing as a binary key that you need to unlock the Microsoft Office XML formats . They are just pure...

There has been a lot of speculation over what the XML support in Office really entails. I think knowledge is really the key here, and I ask all of you who are interested to take some time to actually get your feet wet and understand the facts. I've made...

There's a webcast next Thursday (Nov. 3) that will show ways you can leverage Office 2003's XML functionality to integrate with Web Services. It will go into both the file formats and the custom defined schema support, and should only last about a hour...

The XML 2005 Conference is just around the corner (only a few weeks away)! It starts on November 14th, and will be held in Atlanta. I'll be there for at least a couple days although I'm not sure exactly which day I'll get into town. I'll be giving a presentation...

I'm sorry to post about this subject with all the other stuff I've been promosing to cover but I just read this and wanted to share my thoughts. I was reading Tim Bray's post the other day about the OpenOffice conference ( http://tbray.org/ongoing/When...

I've been receiving various e-mails from folks showing solutions they are building on top of the existing Office XML support, and I wanted to start posting some of these examples. Today, I wanted to post an e-mail I received from Robert Nederby who works...

Here's a blog entry I just came across where the user is building an XSLT that will transform their data into WordprocessingML ( http://dbdesc.com/blog/?p=10 ). It's followed up by another post that was made today ( http://dbdesc.com/blog/?p=11 ). This...

Interested in knowing all the intricate details of the PDF output functionality coming in Office "12"? Cyndy Wessling has been working directly on the PDF support and has spent the past year driving that functionality into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access...

There is a company called CambridgeDocs that has built a tool that will transform from WordML into XSL-FO. Here's a link to their site: http://www.cambridgedocs.com/products_wordml2FO.htm This is just another example of a group that has leveraged the...