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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:32 PM

Why there’s no “Microsoft” in Open XML

Here are a couple cool screenshots from Stephen McGibbon where he shows an OpenXML spreadsheet file created with Gnumeric (runs on Linux & Windows), and the file is then opened up in Numbers (Apple's new spreadsheet app for the Mac). Gnumeric Numbers
Posted by BrianJones | 100 Comments
Friday, July 20, 2007 4:22 PM

Going offline for a week

I'll be offline for the next week or so. Sorry if I don't answer your e-mails or comments during that time. I'll try to get caught up early August. In the mean time though, check out this article up on eweek: Setting a New Standard As a user of OpenOffice.org
Posted by BrianJones | 5 Comments
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:54 PM

Open XML news

Here are a few interesting links related to the Open XML formats US technical committee reaches deadlock – Doug talks about how the discussions went in the US technical committee tasked with reviewing the Open XML formats. It sounds like they were just
Posted by BrianJones | 1 Comments
Monday, July 16, 2007 2:35 PM

Importing your XML into a spreadsheet

I'm going to try to get back on top of all the e-mails folks have been sending me. If you've e-mailed me over the past 6 months the odds are that I didn't reply yet, and I'm sorry about that. I'll start reading through the e-mails again and rather than
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:21 PM

Spreadsheet formula bugs

I saw this blog post from Rob Wier the other day, and I thought it would be worth drilling into a bit more. While Rob tends to have a flare for the dramatics he does point out a couple of good bugs in the formulas piece of the Open XML spec. Rob's actually
Posted by BrianJones | 61 Comments
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:57 AM

Simple SpreadsheetML file Part 3 - Formatting

Over 5 months later, I've finally had some free time to pull together part 3 of my "Intro to SpreadsheetML" posts. I'll pick up where I left off in Part 2, so if you need a little refresher, please head back to the first 2 posts: Simple SpreadsheetML
Posted by BrianJones | 2 Comments
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:12 AM

Examples of programming with SpreadsheetML

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
Posted by BrianJones | 2 Comments
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:23 AM

Datawatch builds reports using SpreadsheetML

Datawatch just announced the availability of Monarch V.9.0 which has the ability to output rich spreadsheet reports on data leveraging SpreadsheetML: http://www.datawatch.com/datawatch/news.asp?display=detail&id=128 This is pretty cool because they
Posted by BrianJones | 5 Comments
Monday, February 12, 2007 10:27 AM

Sun building support for SpreadsheetML into OpenOffice

I missed this last week: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/office_open_xml_import_filter It looks like some folks in Sun are working on support for Ecma 376's SpreadsheetML format within Open Office: The development of a new spreadsheet import filter
Posted by BrianJones | 6 Comments
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:28 PM

Using SpreadsheetML to generate rich reports of timesheet data

Happy New Year everyone. I hope everyone was able to enjoy the holiday season. I took a couple weeks off in case you were wondering why there weren't any new blog posts. While I took some time off, I did still get a chance to play around with the file
Posted by BrianJones | 0 Comments
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:29 PM

Simple SpreadsheetML file (part 2 of 3)

This is a continuation on the " Simple SpreadsheetML file Part 1 " post I made a couple weeks ago. In that post we created a SpreadsheetML file that consisted of a simple table with 3 columns and 3 rows of data (plus a header row). The table looked like
Posted by BrianJones | 3 Comments
Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:50 AM

Simple SpreadsheetML file Part 1 of 3

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
Posted by BrianJones | 5 Comments
Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:24 AM

Performance of an XML file format for spreadsheets

I've blogged in the past about some of the things we did with the SpreadsheetML format to help improve the performance of opening and saving those files. While a file format most likely won't affect the performance of an application once the file is loaded,
Posted by BrianJones | 20 Comments
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:34 AM

SpreadsheetML Dates

Recently a couple people have questioned the decision to leave the legacy Excel date behavior in the Open XML formats. This was primarily triggered by a post from IBM's Rob Wier . While those folks have referred to it as an Excel bug, it's actually something
Posted by BrianJones | 31 Comments
Monday, May 29, 2006 4:05 AM

Spreadsheet performance - Shared Formulas

I wanted to follow up on the thread I started a couple weeks ago discussing the design goals behind spreadsheetML. There's a whole host of things we've done to make sure that the move to XML formats is a huge benefit to developers, without it actually
Posted by BrianJones | 25 Comments
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