Recently I encountered a not so common [;-)] scenario while working with Word 2007: If you have a Word 97-2003 format document which also has an alternate data stream associated with it, converting this document to the newer file format (DOCX file...

Recently I came across a problem where a customer was looking for the ways to call a function in an VSTO office add-in using keyboard shortcuts. Since I could not find good documentation on it, I decided to document my findings. One can implement these...

If you build a managed component that loads into Office application’s(Word, Excel , PowerPoint) process space, and the managed code uses the PIA (or a custom IA using event delegates) to sink events on the Application object, that application’s instance...

Recently I worked on a scenario where customer wanted to set the Document Editing Restrictions in Word 2007 using Open XML SDK 2.0. Document Editing Restrictions is nothing but Review | Protect Documents | Restrict Formatting and Editing option in MS...