Brian Jones: Office Solutions

In today's post I am going to show you how to remove page and section breaks within a Word document using the Open XML SDK. Removing these two types of breaks is similar, but requires two different approaches. Let's start off by jumping into removing...

It seems like the big milestones just keep coming for Office '12'. Today, a select group of our customers and partners were given access to the first beta of Office '12'. This is just our next step towards the final release of Office '12' which is scheduled...

I just back back from Brussels and the first meeting of Ecma's TC45 ; it was an awesome start and I'm extremely excited about the work we have ahead of us. The initial draft of the standard was submitted by Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, the British Library...

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...

Here's some more information for those of you new to XML or at least Office XML. I mentioned in the previous post that it is possible to leverage Excel's XML file format to display your data in a rich way. There are actually two options here, but today...

As I've already talked about a number of times on this blog, there are two core pieces to the XML support in Office. The first piece is what we call our "reference schemas." The reference schemas are the schemas we've defined in Office to represent our...

I just posted another example document if any is interested. http://jonesxml.com/resources/hyperlinkandimage.docx For those of you that got a copy of Beta 1, the file will be compatible with your build, so you can open it and take a look. This is an extremely...

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In my last post, I showed you guys how to embed an Excel spreadsheet within a Word document without the need to invoke an OLE Server. In today's post I am going to show you how to embed any file in an Open XML file. Specifically, I am going to show you...

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...

Document assembly seems to be a hot topic these days especially when combined with the power of SharePoint. Today, I want to show you a pretty rich document assembly solution that is able to take multiple Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and merge...

Hello, my name is Zeyad Rajabi and I am a Program Manager on Brian's team. For the next several posts I will be talking about the Open XML SDK and will show you how to use the SDK to accomplish real world scenarios such as document assembly and document...

I thought it might be interesting to look at a timeline of the past 8 years or so in terms of ODF and OpenXML. I had some of this stuff noted down already and looked up a few other statistics, etc. Let me know if there are any additional things of...

If you've played around with Word 2003's XML support, you're probably aware that you can load your own schemas into Word and markup the document with your XML. When you save the file out, you get both the WordML and your XML mixed together. This allows...

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a good holiday. For my first post of the New Year I want to talk about content controls and how this technology provides true data/view separation in Wordprocessing documents. In my previous post , I showed you how...

I think this is the longest I've gone between posts since I started blogging back in June. I've been out here in Europe for the past two weeks, for a combination of work and a little time off. I was in Nice last week for the Ecma general assembly meeting...

I've had a number of folks who attended my session at the XML 2005 conference ask me if the deck was available online. I thought it was posted, but I wasn't able to find it anywhere so I decided to post it myself. You can go have a look here: http://jonesxml...

I'm sure many folks have seen the news by now that Open XML has been approved as an ISO/IEC standard (IS 29500). Based on the numbers I've seen, looking at the P member countries there are now 24 who vote "yes", and only 8 vote "no". This puts the P member...

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...

First off I want to thank everyone for leaving comments suggesting future posts about the Open XML SDK. Looking at some of the comments from previous posts , I noticed there were several requests around generating a Wordprocessing document from external...

If you read Part 1 of the Word XML Introduction, you saw the basics behind a Word document, as well as how basic formatting can be applied. The Word XML schemas were designed to closely map the structures that Word uses internally to represent a document...

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...

In my previous post , I announced the release of the Open XML SDK August 2009 CTP . Today, I want to announce the release of the Open XML SDK code snippets . This package of code snippets provides over fifty reusable code samples, in both C# and VB.NET...

I posted a bunch of "Intro to SpreadsheetML" posts about a year or so ago, but those were all based on the Office XP spreadsheetML format. I think an updated series based on the Open XML standard is long overdue. I'll start off just building a simple...