Brian Jones: Office Solutions

The workshop I attended last week at Harvard was a really great learning experience for me. I spend most of my time focused on technology, but not always as often on the policies and practices that need to be put in place to best leverage those technologies...

It's been a really exciting first day out here at Harvard. Jerry Mechling and the rest of the folks at the Kennedy School have put together an outstanding workshop . There are a whole host of impressive attendees (from CIOs of major departments to ambassadors...

For those of you looking into what type of Java support there is for the OpenXML formats, you should check out this project on SourceForge where they are building a Java based OpenXML API. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxml4j/ Up until now, Java...

Tomorrow I'm heading out to Massachusetts for what should be a very interesting event at Harvard. The Kennedy school's Leadership for a Networked World is hosting a workshop entitled "Cross-Boundary Governance through Agreements and Standards". Here's...

Doug Mahugh had a post last week showing how you could leverage the custom schema support in OpenXML to create a report based on XBRL data. http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2007/03/09/xbrl-and-open-xml.aspx#comments Here's a screenshot of the...

Erika is working on pulling together more coding examples for the OpenXML formats. We've seen a bunch of stuff around WordprocessingML, and now they are starting to work on some good examples with SpreadsheetML and PresentationML. So if you've ever wanted...

David Overton has a blog post describing how folks with SBS can make a few updates so they get the new icons registered with the new extensions (as well as proper behavior with the open control): http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2007/03/13/how...

With all the talk last week of the OpenXML support that is now in OpenOffice , I thought it would also be worthwhile reminding folks that if you have an older version of Microsoft Office, you can also work with the OpenXML formats. There is a compatibility...

Florida's House of Representatives had a pilot project last year where they were able to leverage the OpenXML formats to make it much easier to craft a bill: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=200428 Basically, as a bill...

I've blogged a few times about the support for custom defined schema in the OpenXML formats. ( http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/tags/Custom+Schema+Solutions/default.aspx ) I've had a few folks ask me if there are similarities between the custom...

There's a little blurb up on the Novell PR blog talking a bit more about the OpenXML translator release: http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=299 Novell is cooperating with Microsoft and others on an open source project to create the bi-directional translator...

I just saw that the Novell folks have released a version of OpenOffice with support for the Ecma Office Open XML formats ( http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~ ). They announced this work awhile ago, but this is the first chance...