Doug Mahugh
Office Interoperability
November 2006 - Posts
New report on open document formats
28 November 06 02:00 PM
IDC has prepared a report about the move toward open document formats such as Office Open XML and ODF. The report is based on interviews with Nordic firms, and it's nicely open-minded, pointing out that governments have never been able to dictate standards
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Arbitrary content in an OPC package
25 November 06 08:21 AM
I was up early this morning playing around with some sample Open XML documents when my friend Pedro , an ISV in Portugal, sent me an email with this question: I'm trying to store a file inside the zip file (.docx), but when I open the .docx on word 2007
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New articles on OpenXmlDeveloper.org
23 November 06 09:29 AM
There are a bunch of new articles on OpenXmlDeveloper.org this week, so if you haven't been over there for a while it's worth taking a look. We have new contributions from developers working with Open XML in Java, C#, and C++, including general how-to
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TechEd video interview
13 November 06 07:20 AM
In Barcelona last week, Nicolas Sorel filmed me answering a few questions from Julien Chable about Open XML. It's on Wygwam's "The Tech-Ed - as if you were there!" page. Just click the link under my name in the list. For you French speakers, Julien also
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Open XML directory of articles
11 November 06 02:45 AM
Last week at TechEd, I often showed developers articles on the OpenXmlDeveloper.org web site in answer to their questions. We have quite a collection of code samples on the site now, but I found it a bit clumsy to find the one I was thinking of sometimes
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Parlez-vous Français?
10 November 06 12:34 AM
If you answer "oui!" you'll want to check out a great resource for French-speaking Open XML developers on the MSDN France site. Here's the link. The site has a growing list of source-code samples in .NET and Java, including an overview of Java manipulation
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Open XML Developers at TechEd
09 November 06 03:23 AM
At Microsoft TechEd in Barcelona this week, two announcements were of special interest to Open XML developers: Office RTM -- the 2007 Microsoft Office System has been released to manufacturing. .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package -- you can now
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TechEd booth duty
07 November 06 06:11 AM
Halfway through the first day at TechEd/Barcelona, the Open XML booth has been a lot of fun. There's a very wide range of awareness of Open XML among the attendees (or "delegates"). At one extreme, I've talked to a few people who were impressed by watching
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A lot can change in a year
06 November 06 02:46 PM
It's official as of today: the 2007 Microsoft Office System has been released to manufacturing . And coincidentally, today concludes my first year at Microsoft. The day I joined the Office evangelism team, November 7 2005, things were a bit different
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Open XML Images: 3D effects
01 November 06 01:04 PM
One of the key benefits of the Open XML file formats is that they support all of the things you can do in Office documents. If you've created documents in past version of Word, Excel or PowerPoint that have unusual or complex formatting, you can simply
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