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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Many people have asked me if there is an easy way to go from Word XML into XHTML. I've already mentioned that we have a tool available that transforms from Word 2003 XML into HTML. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

This continues to be a really good discussion and I want to thank everyone who has taken time to post their comments. I know there is a lot to read through and it can get a bit confusing at times, so I'm really glad to see so many of you are up for it...

This continues to be a really great discussion. I think we're really starting to get somewhere. There were so many comments, I couldn't reply to all, and I figured I would break this out into a new post. Let's dig into a couple of the comments from the...

David Gainer has started a blog discussing the next version of Excel. David is the GPM of the Excel team, and this should be a great blog for those of you interested in Excel. http://blogs.msdn.com/excel In David's first post, he talks about an old...

I've had a few folks ask this question so I figured I'd just quickly call it out. As we've been discussing, we will have new XML formats for Office '12' in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The new Word XML format is really similar to the XML format in Word...

Well, now that PDC is over I've had a chance to look into the issues and comments from our discussion the previous week . There continue to be a lot of comments about the licenses that we use for the Microsoft Office Open XML formats. The questions I...