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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:16 PM

Open XML and Office Services

If you didn't see the news up on the Word team blog announcing Word Automation Services, and you have any interest in server side conversion of .docx files into .pdf or .xps, you should definitely go take a look: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2009/10/26/introducing-word-automation-services.aspx
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:36 PM

Finding Open XML Errors with Open XML SDK Validation

In a previous post, I gave you an overview of the functionality added to the Open XML SDK 2.0 August 2009 CTP . Today, I want to deep dive into the schema and semantic level validation support within the SDK. Specifically, I am going to show you guys
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:43 PM

Embedding Any File Type, Like PDF, in an Open XML File

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
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Monday, June 15, 2009 7:00 AM

Removing Page and Section Breaks from a Word Document

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
Posted by BrianJones | 3 Comments
Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:35 AM

Importing SmartArt from PowerPoint to Word

In previous posts, I showed you how to import charts from spreadsheets to a Wordprocessing document and how to import tables from Word documents to spreadsheets . Today, I am going to show you how to import SmartArt from a PowerPoint deck into a Word
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:47 PM

Retrieving Word Content Based on Styles

In previous posts, like Importing a Table from Word to Excel , I showed you how to retrieve content within specific content controls. In these posts, content controls were used to add semantic structure to a document, where this structure aided in retrieving
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:45 PM

Importing a Table from WordprocessingML to SpreadsheetML

In a previous post, I showed you how to import charts from spreadsheets to a Wordprocessing document . Today, as promised in my last post , I am going to show you how to import a table from a Wordprocessing document into a spreadsheet. Solution To import
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Friday, March 13, 2009 10:25 AM

Importing Charts from Spreadsheets to Wordprocessing Documents

There have been several requests made by people asking how to import a chart from one document type to another document type. In a previous post, I showed you how to push data into a spreadsheet to create a chart . Today, I am going to show you how to
Posted by BrianJones | 6 Comments
Friday, February 06, 2009 12:00 PM

Removing Comments from a Wordprocessing Document Programmatically

One of the more common scenarios related to a Wordprocessing document is the need to sanitize a document in order to remove personally identifiable information. What do I mean by personally identifiable information? Well, I am talking about, among other
Posted by BrianJones | 9 Comments
Monday, January 19, 2009 5:35 PM

Pushing Data from a Database into a Word Document

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
Posted by BrianJones | 8 Comments
Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM

Taking Advantage of Bound Content Controls

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
Posted by BrianJones | 11 Comments
Monday, December 08, 2008 12:10 PM

The Easy Way to Assemble Multiple Word Documents

One of the most common requests we hear related to word processing documents is the ability to merge multiple documents into a single document. Today, I am going to show you how to leverage altChunks and version 2 of the Open XML SDK to easily create
Posted by BrianJones | 20 Comments
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:31 PM

Video clip of the add-in for authoring Scientific Articles

If you want to get an idea of how the add-in works, Pablo has posted a short video: Pablo suggested skipping to about 4:40 into the video to see the actual solution. For more information on the add-in, check out the blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/exscientia/archive/2008/03/25/short-video-clip-on-the-add-in.aspx
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:25 AM

WordprocessingML Document Model

I thought it might be worthwhile to give a bit of an overview of the WordprocessingML model that you see in the Open XML standard. There are some people who've played with other formats like HTML or DocBook that are curious why WordprocessingML doesn't
Posted by BrianJones | 15 Comments
Monday, June 18, 2007 6:22 PM

Microsoft Office *not* dumped by Science and Nature

I saw this article today, and wanted to make sure that folks weren't confused about the latest with some of the publishers out there like Science as well as Nature. As I said last week, Murray and I have been talking with them trying to better understand
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