It's interesting to say that curious four-letter word: Java . Equally curious is the16 letter word: WordProcessingML . I spend a lot more time working with the latter (and XML generally) than I do with the former. But, they are not mutually exclusive...

When you import XML data into Excel End-User: Data | XML | Import Code: ActiveWorkbook.XmlImport Excel attempts to map the XML to a schema. Now, if you do not have a schema already mapped in the workbook, Excel creates a new one for you. But, what rules...

I know- you can't stop thinking about developing for the Microsoft Office System. You wake up in the morning chanting, "WordprocessingML, SpreadsheetML, CommandBar, CommandbarControl, DoCmd, Documents.Add", and more frighteningly- long lists of Extended...

I was pleased to see that Oleg Tkachenko, XML luminary, picked up on our publishing of the XSL-FO for WordProcessingML . He writes: "Hmm, good move, I like it." OK- he wrote more than that! He notes other things in the post, and I agree with him that...

When I do a title like this, I want to include audio that does the dramatic organ sound, "Dah, dah, DAH!"- you know, kind of scary like. Why a little scary? Here's the deal: I'm all about using custom XML schemas for my Word or Excel documents, but there...

Just a quick note here : we just published some new content. First, there is an article (with code download) by Word MVP Extraordinaire, Cindy Meister , Automating Word Tables for Data Insertion and Extraction . As Cindy says in the article, "One of the...

Alright, I had typed up a nice blog entry when my Toshiba laptop (I have had tons of hardware issues) decided to go black not allowing me to see anything on my screen. I had to cold boot and lost everything. Very annoying. Here's the basic idea of what...

Yesterday , I received feedback from a reader that the screen capture in the post for February 10th had nothing to do with Microsoft Word 2003 bookmarks. Now, I am very pleased that " Concerned Reader " posted this feedback. The fact that the feedback...

Alright, we have lots to discuss about Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (hereafter known more conveniently as VSTO 2005). Some of you may know something about it, others may not. I could approach the topic in so many...

You are probably wondering why my blog has been stale for a week or so. Well, I have my real job I do, and I also had the Office Developer Conference last week with Envision just before that. It's been a bit crazy getting demos to firm up, being available...