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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:57 PM

suppressTopSpacingWP – Compat Settings #1

I know a lot of people were worried about a subset of the compatibility settings in wordprocessingML that specified the behavior of an older application should be used (such as "suppressTopSpacingWP"). While the vast majority of the settings were fully
Posted by BrianJones | 25 Comments
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
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:05 PM

Open XML in Science and Nature; Deploying Office 2007; and more…

Here are a few interesting links I came across this week: Open XML in Science and Nature - Murray Sargent gives another update on the discussions we've been having with the folks from Science as well as Nature. They have some really cool publishing processes,
Posted by BrianJones | 51 Comments
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:40 PM

Leveraging content in other formats

There is a really cool feature that we added into the WordprocessingML format that allows you to pass a file off to a consumer using alternative formats embedded within the WordprocessingML if you know that the consumer supports that alternate format.
Posted by BrianJones | 12 Comments
Monday, December 11, 2006 4:11 PM

What’s up with all those “rsids”?

As many folks who worked with the 2003 wordprocessingML format have probably noticed by now, there are is a new set of attributes/elements in the Open XML wordprocessingML format that shows up all over the place. I'm talking about RSIDs. The rsid element
Posted by BrianJones | 10 Comments
Friday, September 09, 2005 2:31 PM

Intro to Word XML Part 6: Locking down your XML structures

What a busy week. I've been trying to keep up with all the news while also getting ready for PDC (and still keeping up with all my regular responsibilities helping to ship Office 12). I'm heading down to PDC on Monday, and my session is Tuesday afternoon.
Posted by BrianJones | 9 Comments
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:44 PM

Intro to Word XML Part 5: Opening custom XML

Intro to Word XML Part 5: Opening custom XML files I've been talking for awhile now about the support for custom defined schemas in Office. I'm actually going to pull together a post in the next week or so that addresses the uses and motivations behind
Posted by BrianJones | 5 Comments
Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:01 PM

Intro to Word XML Part 4: Schema Validation

In the Intro to Word XML Part 3 , I showed how you could add your own XML to a Word document. I also briefly touched on how you could take advantage of the XML to make programming against the document a lot easier. Let's now briefly explore data validation.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:03 PM

Intro to Word XML Part 3: Using Your Own Schema

When we built the support for customer defined schemas into Word 2003 there were a couple scenarios we had in mind. The main goal though was that we wanted people to take existing Word documents and existing Word solutions, and make them more powerful.
Posted by BrianJones | 16 Comments
Monday, July 18, 2005 5:09 PM

Intro to Word XML Part 2: Simple Formatting

If you read Part 1 of the Word XML Introduction, you saw the basics behind a Word document, as well as how basic formatting can be applied. The Word XML schemas were designed to closely map the structures that Word uses internally to represent a document.
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:39 PM

Intro to Word XML Part 1: Simple Word Document

This post is for those of you interested in learning the basics behind WordprocessingML. That’s the schema that we built for Word 2003. You can save any Word document as XML, and we will use this schema to fully represent that document as XML. The new
Posted by BrianJones | 18 Comments
 
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