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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
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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
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
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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 | 4 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 | 6 Comments
Friday, October 27, 2006 2:29 PM

Friday thoughts (Oct 27, 2006)

I'd been meaning to post a write-up on how to create a simple SpreadsheetML document from scratch, but just haven't had the time this week to pull it all together. Hopefully I'll get that out early next week. I had already done a similar post for WordprocessingML
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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 | 22 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
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:57 AM

Sample code for generating a SpreadsheetML file

Doug Mahugh has another post on programmatically generating a basic Office Open XML file. This latest post shows how to create a simple SpreadsheetML file : This post covers the code for a CreateXlsx program that creates a simple Open XML spreadsheet
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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
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 10:54 AM

Does tag size matter?

Surprisingly, I haven't seen much information out there discussing the performance impacts of XML tag name lengths (ie using "<c>" instead of "<table-cell>"). My last post about some of the design goals behind SpreadsheetML raised some questions
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:11 AM

Design Goals Behind SpreadsheetML

It's been awhile since I've talked in detail about the SpreadsheetML schema and I apologize. I had a number of posts back in the summer which talked through Office XP's SpreadsheetML format that we built about 6 years ago, but obviously a lot has changed
Posted by BrianJones | 21 Comments
Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:23 AM

Updated draft of the Open XML spec coming this month

I'm in New York right now, and I was talking to some folks yesterday about the work that we've been doing in Ecma. It reminded me that I hadn't posted very much information on by blog though about how the meeting in London went last month. Adam Farquhar
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:01 PM

Comments from Tim Bray on OpenDocument

I'm sorry to post about this subject with all the other stuff I've been promosing to cover but I just read this and wanted to share my thoughts. I was reading Tim Bray's post the other day about the OpenOffice conference ( http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/10/01/Open-Office-Conference
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