Brian Jones: Office Solutions
I'm Brian Jones, the group program manager of the Office Solutions Framework team.
Leveraging content in other formats
There is a really cool feature that we added into the WordprocessingML format that allows you to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/17/2007
The power of data-view separation in your documents
There is an excellent post over on the Word team blog that goes into details on how the new content...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/10/2007
Specifying the document settings
Earlier today I got an e-mail from Max asking if I could help clarify the section of the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/09/2007
Open XML support in older versions of Office
I was just reading this article in wired...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/08/2007
Links - Jan 05 2007
Hope everyone had a great first week of 2007. I'm just trying to adjust to being back at work...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/05/2007
“Directions on Microsoft” Report on Open XML formats
There is a new report out from Directions on Microsoft that discusses the new Open XML formats, and...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/03/2007
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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/02/2007
Links 12.13.2006
Some interesting links from the past few days: File Formats Why China's UOF is good - O'Reilly XML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/13/2006
What’s up with all those “rsids”?
As many folks who worked with the 2003 wordprocessingML format have probably noticed by now, there...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/11/2006
More on Ecma Standard 376
I wanted to post a few links that were interesting from the news yesterday about Ecma approving the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/08/2006
Ecma Standard 376 – Office Open XML formats
It's finally official. Today the Ecma General Assembly voted almost unanimously to approve the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/07/2006
Friday Thoughts 12-01-2006
I wanted to point out a few interesting things that have popped up over the past couple weeks: IDC...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/01/2006
Convert OpenXML files to HTML on sharepoint
The sharepoint team recently posted an article up on OpenXMLdeveloper.org on how they allow you to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/16/2006
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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/15/2006
Week off
As I just mentioned in a comment I left in last week's post, I'm actually attempting to take a bit...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/07/2006
Novell and Microsoft teaming up on document interoperability
I'm sure by now most folks have read the news on the collaboration agreement between Novell and...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/03/2006
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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/02/2006
Friday thoughts (Oct 27, 2006)
I'd been meaning to post a write-up on how to create a simple SpreadsheetML document from scratch,...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/27/2006
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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/26/2006
SpreadsheetML Dates
Recently a couple people have questioned the decision to leave the legacy Excel date behavior in the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/25/2006
Whitepaper summarizing the Office Open XML standard
Ecma has now published a 14 page whitepaper that does an excellent job of describing the Office Open...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/24/2006
More on content controls
I posted earlier this year on the support for custom defined schema in wordprocessingML via the new...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/23/2006
Friday thoughts
I just had a couple random things to mention this afternoon: ARCast – Office 2007 Open XML Format...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/20/2006
They’re bringing out the big guns
Anyone else been following the latest blog posts from IBM and Sun discussing the Office Open XML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/18/2006
Simple wordprocessingML document (video demo)
Are the Office Open XML formats too complex? Not really. They are definitely very rich, but the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/16/2006
Comparison of OpenXML math and MathML
Murray Sargent who was the architect of the new math functionality in Office 2007 has a blog post...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/12/2006
Office Open XML diffing tool available
I just saw this on Doug Mahugh's blog and it's really cool. Stephane Rodriguez has built a tool that...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/11/2006
Office Open XML final draft!!!
As I already mentioned, in the last face to face meeting in Trondheim, Norway we unanimously voted...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/09/2006
Random Friday thoughts (from 30,000 feet)
Well I'm currently flying over Canada on my way back from Trondheim, Norway and the most recent Ecma...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/29/2006
Interoperability of the Office Open XML formats
A comment was posted today that had a lot of thought put into it and rather than just replying to it...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/21/2006
Over 500 members in the Open XML Developer community
There are now well over 500 registered members on the Open XML Developer community site, and from...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/20/2006
MindManager supports the Office Open XML formats
Here's another application that is able to take advantage of the Office Open XML formats....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/19/2006
New Word team blog
The Word team has started up a new blog, and Jon Bailor has made the first introduction post:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/18/2006
Latest changes to the Ecma spec
Those of you who using Beta 2 probably noticed that the .docx versions of the Ecma working draft 1.4...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/13/2006
Updated XSDs available for the Office Open XML formats
Some pretty cool news to report today: XSDs for the Office Open XML formats working draft 1.4 The...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/12/2006
Friday thoughts
Some really interesting things to note for the week: New blog on Math in Office – Murray Sargent who...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/08/2006
Difficult decisions between loose conformance and true interoperability
Rick Jelliffe had a great post earlier this week discussing the problems you get when you allow for...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/08/2006
New team blog for the ODF to Open XML converter project
Jean Goffinet pointed out that he and the folks working on the ODF to Open XML converter project now...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/05/2006
Random thoughts for a Friday afternoon
I haven't blogged in a week, and I figured I should post some thoughts before heading out for the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/01/2006
Working Draft 1.4 of the Ecma Office Open XML formats available
Last week we held the 5th face-to-face meeting of Ecma TC45, and this time it was hosted by...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/25/2006
Creating a rich Wordprocessing Document from a database
I've been planning to start pulling together some real world examples around the ways in which...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/24/2006
ODF to Open XML Translator Project Update
Last week we held the Ecma TC45 face-to-face meetings out here in Redmond. It was a really...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/23/2006
There can be only one?
I had a few people point me at a couple of IBM blogs today (Bob Sutor and Rob Weir) and I have to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/16/2006
Word XHTML - Tables
This is the fifth post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/14/2006
Using XHTML in a WordprocessingML document
This question has come up a few times, most recently over on the OpenXMLDeveloper site...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/08/2006
Programmatic Manipulation of the Office Open XML Formats Virtual Lab
There are quite a few online labs for Office, but I thought I'd point out this one in particular:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/07/2006
No license needed to use the Office Open XML formats
I still get folks asking me questions about the licensing of the Open XML formats from time to time,...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/04/2006
Parsing WordprocessingML using XLinq
Here's a post from Eric White where he provides some code samples for using XLinq to parse a...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/03/2006
Code snippets for generating WordprocessingML files
There are now a handful of code snippets from Wouter available over on the openxmldeveloper.org site...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/02/2006
Creating a PresentationML file with .Net
There is a new article up on the OpenXMLDeveloper.org site showing how to build a basic...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/01/2006