We frequently get questions about how Office selects substitute fonts when a specified font is not found. This article describes how Office Open XML-compatible software can select fonts in text runs. It includes information about the font selection process...

From time to time, we get questions about the level of support that Microsoft Office currently offers for PDF. PDF has been an international standard since 2008, ISO 32000, and has several accompanying standards for specific uses, including archiving...

Microsoft Interoperability Protocols Plugfest | Redmond, WA | June 24th through the 28th The Windows Server, Office and SQL Interoperability Teams are hosting a free event that will cover the Windows File Sharing protocols, SharePoint protocols, Exchange...

The Office Interoperability team is pleased to announce the release of the Exchange Server Protocol Test Suites. The test suites are designed in a client-to-server relationship and were originally developed for the in-house testing of the Microsoft Open...

The Office Interoperability team is proud to announce our upcoming Brussels Protocol Interoperability Plugfest. The event will take place on November 13 th and 14 th in Brussels, Belgium. The event is free and we are targeting a developer and QA level...

Thank you everyone for the great response we have recieved to our upcoming Windows Identity and Exchange Protocols Plugfest! This is the final week we will be accepting registrations, so if you are planning to attend and have not registered please email...

The Office and Windows Interoperability teams will host a Windows Identity and Exchange Protocols Plugfest in Redmond, Washington on April 16 - 20. The five day event will cover Exchange Web Services protocols, Exchange RPC protocols, and Windows 8 Identity...

The Office Interoperability team is pleased to announce the availability of new Office 15 Technical Preview protocol documentation. Please reference the MSDN release notes below to learn more about this update. MSDN Release Notes — January 2012...

As part of an ongoing commitment to providing interoperability with Microsoft products, the Learn Open Specifications and Interoperability page (also referred to as the LearnTab) in the Open Specifications Developer Center page hosts instructional content...

The SQL Interoperability team is considering an event in 2012 that will cover the OData ( MS-ODATA ) protocol and associated formats: Conceptual Schema Definition ( MC-CSDL ), and Entity Data Model ( MC-EDMX ). For those of you who have attended either...

The Office Interoperability team is happy to announce the availability of version 1.5 of the Office and SharePoint Products Network Monitor Parsers. Version 1.5 will be the last major update until the next version of Office and SharePoint and includes...

In late June, the Office and Windows Interoperability teams hosted a Windows File Sharing and SharePoint Protocols Plugfest that spanned five days. It was the first joint interoperability event between SharePoint and Windows and the event turned out to...

The Office Interoperability team is proud to announce the public Beta release of the Microsoft Office Binary File Format Validator (BFFValidator) tool. Available on the Microsoft Download Center , BFFValidator is a tool that will validate whether a .doc...

Last week, the Office Interoperability team updated the Learn Open Specifications and Interoperability page in the Open Specifications Developer Center. This update features the debut of the Open Specifications interactive Pivot, nine new learning modules...

We are closing the registration for the June 20 th Windows File Sharing and SharePoint Protocols Plugfest on Monday June 6th. So please register now, if you would like to attend. We are nearing capacity and encourage everyone who has already expressed...

The Office Interoperability team is regularly updating the Learn Open Specifications and Interoperability page in the Open Specifications Developer Center with new topics focused around the Open Specifications. In particular, we’ve recently released...

The Office Interoperability team released version 1.4 of the Office and SharePoint Products Network Monitor Parsers . The table below outlines the changes in the v1.4 package, we have added seven new parsers and provided updates to six others. Network...

Beginning in November, 2010, Microsoft solicited community input regarding its support of the core and most commonly adopted email and calendaring standards in the next versions of Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook. The process confirmed the existing...

The Office and Windows Interoperability Teams are hosting a free event that will cover the SharePoint front-end and Windows File Sharing protocols. Attendees will have the opportunity to: Listen to presentations from Microsoft Subject Matter...

MSDN Release Notes — March 2011 The March 2011 release contains updates made to Microsoft Office Protocols documents since the December 2010 refresh. Microsoft Office File Formats links: Full documentation set (zip): Microsoft...

Many of you are aware that Microsoft Office 2010 shipped with a feature called Office File Validation that validated untrusted binary file formats (BFF) upon load by the application. This feature increased application security and provided users with...

Here is Jason Johnston's post on the Exchange API-spotting blog : ---- The Exchange Interoperability Team is excited to announce the initial release of the Microsoft Exchange RPC Extractor (RPX). RPX is a command-line tool that can parse network...

I am pleased to announce the formation of a new “ Learn ” center on our MSDN Open Specification web-site. The Learn center will provide information targeted at the developer community that is working with our Open Specifications . The content...

Last week, our team released an update to the Office and SharePoint Products Network Monitor Parsers . We are now shipping v1.3 of the parsers package which includes 20 new parsers that enhance support for our Office and SharePoint protocols. As I mentioned...

The Office Interoperability Team updated the MSDN Open Specification documentation Today. We try to release updates on a quarterly basis, if you have any questions about this update or future updates, please ask. This update does not include any new open...