October 2007 - Posts

Fooled by randomness
20 October 07 01:29 PM
Rick Jelliffe's "Name 'em and shame 'em! Non-voters on recent SC34 ballots" covers the actual facts of recent SC34 activity, which various parties have tried to stitch together to support their agendas. As usual, his post needs no explanation; here's Read More...
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What do you save as?
19 October 07 06:56 AM
Some interesting anecdotes and attitudes in a thread on Slashdot that started yesterday afternoon and has 463 comments already … "Looking through an article on the smartphone office suite Quickoffice, I noted a claim by a company executive that OpenOffice Read More...
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document formats legislation in the US
16 October 07 01:06 PM
Shane Peterson, who has been following document formats legislation in the US for some time , has a new article on Public CIO entitled " What Domino Effect? " that takes a close look at how the situation has evolved in Massachussetts and Texas. The article Read More...
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XML@Boeing
16 October 07 12:42 PM
There are two rules of blogging that the experts seem to all agree on: don't don't blog about the fact you've not been blogging, and don't post pictures of your cat . So I'll not say anything more about the fact I've been really busy lately and haven't Read More...
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Open XML links for 10-11-2007
11 October 07 03:38 PM
Andy Updegrove's "Meanwhile, Back in Minnesota: Your Chance to Help" provides information about how to provide feedback on document formats legislation to the state of Minnesota. The deadline for feedback is next Monday, so if you'd like to participate Read More...
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OMPM tips
04 October 07 09:42 AM
As more organizations are moving to Office 2007 and the Open XML formats, I've started to hear more questions about how to work with the Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) , the set of tools that helps manage bulk conversion from the legacy Office Read More...
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WordPerfect Office beta supports Open XML
03 October 07 02:57 PM
Interesting news out of Ottawa today: Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced a new beta version of Corel® WordPerfect® Office that supports both the Open Document Read More...
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Open XML links for 10-02-2007
02 October 07 11:08 PM
Oliver Bell's "Open XML: Custom Schema Support" describes how Open XML features like OPC (Open Packaging Convention) and custom XML parts can be used to embed business data in documents. His example is based on a health care scenario, and includes a video Read More...
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Conditional Formatting
02 October 07 07:18 AM
Scott Ruble has a post on on the Excel team blog today, asking for feedback on the databars functionality that was introduced in Excel 2007. This is a very popular new capability, and part of a more general concept known as "conditional formatting," where Read More...
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