Brian Jones: Office Solutions
I'm Brian Jones, the group program manager of the Office Solutions Framework team.
What about Word 2003's XML format?
I've had a few folks ask me about the XML format from Word 2003, and whether or not it would be...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 04/04/2006
Document Sciences joins OpenXMLDeveloper.org
I just saw that Document Sciences has also joined the OpenXMLDeveloper.org site (story here). It's...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/29/2006
Video discussing the OpenXMLDeveloper.org site
As Doug mentions here, there is a brief video where a few of us were talking last week about the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/24/2006
Momentum around the Open XML formats continues to grow!
I always forget how much fun these developer conferences can be. On Tuesday, we had an entire...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/23/2006
A new Open XML Developer community
There exist today billions of documents in the Office binary formats. With the move to the standard...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/21/2006
Microsoft Office Developers Conference
This should be an awesome week. We have a ton of folks out here in Redmond for the Microsoft Office...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/20/2006
The newer Office 2007 User Interface
Since Beta 1, the Office team has been hard at work refining the new UI. Yesterday they revealed the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 03/10/2006
Programmatically remove parts from an Office file
Kevin Boske has another post on using the System.IO.Packaging assembly to work with the new Office...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/23/2006
Inclusion of alternate formats
Here's a question I got from someone wanting to store alternative formats in the files: Want to know...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/22/2006
Blogs on VSTO (and Office programmability)
I've had a number of folks ask me questions about VSTO integration both with Office 2003 as well as...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/20/2006
How Office detects that a UNC path is really a WebDAV URL
This is a bit off topic, but when I received this question I realized that we don't have the answer...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/17/2006
Second face to face meeting of Ecma TC-45
Two weeks ago we had the second face to face meeting for Ecma TC-45. For those of you unfamiliar...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/16/2006
2007 Microsoft Office system (aka Office '12')
Today we are announcing the details behind the upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system products. We...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/16/2006
Answer to question on package relationships
I've been really backed up on email, so I'm sorry for those of you who've sent me questions directly...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/15/2006
Tools for working with Office Open XML files
As you all know, the new Office formats use ZIP containers to wrap up all the XML parts that make up...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/13/2006
Introduction to Word documents
Now that folks have had a chance to work with Beta 1 for a few months, I wanted to take some time to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 02/02/2006
Off topic: NFC Champion Seattle Seahawks
Well, after going through an entire season, and not ever really talking too much about the Seahawks,...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/27/2006
Custom Defined Schemas
I've talked a lot about the value of "Custom Schema" support in Office. Anytime I give talks on the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/26/2006
Corel to support Microsoft Office Open XML Formats
It looks like another group is planning on taking advantage of the Open XML formats that are coming...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/20/2006
Short podcast with Dr. Dobb's journal
I had a brief conversation about the Ecma documentation with Dr. Dobb's journal earlier this week...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/13/2006
Create a rich Word document based on your own custom XML (without the need for XSLT)
I hope everyone had a great new year. Sorry I've taken so much time off from blogging. I was pretty...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 01/09/2006
Back from the Ecma meetings
I just back back from Brussels and the first meeting of Ecma's TC45; it was an awesome start and I'm...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/19/2005
More answers to questions around standardization and licensing
I think this is the longest I've gone between posts since I started blogging back in June. I've been...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/14/2005
Example Word '12' document from Beta 1 with hyperlink and image
I just posted another example document if any is interested....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 12/02/2005
Deck from my XML 2005 presentation available
I've had a number of folks who attended my session at the XML 2005 conference ask me if the deck was...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/26/2005
New approach to licensing with the Office XML formats
Well, as expected there is a lot of speculation out there about what the new approach we've decided...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/22/2005
Standardizing the Microsoft Office Open XML formats
Today we are making a really important announcement about our XML formats. We are going to bring the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/21/2005
Office '12' Beta 1 is now available
It seems like the big milestones just keep coming for Office '12'. Today, a select group of our...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/16/2005
Update from XML 2005 conference
Well, I'm here at the XML conference and so far it's been a lot of fun. There are a number of...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/16/2005
Word '12' Presentation on Customer XML Support Available Online (PDC)
For those of you who watched my PDC presentation that I posted on the other week, you probably...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/10/2005
Integrating with business data: Store custom XML in the Office XML formats
As I've already talked about a number of times on this blog, there are two core pieces to the XML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 11/04/2005
Office '12' File Format Presentation available online (PDC)
If you're interested in seeing the presentation I gave at PDC back in September, it's now available...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/27/2005
MSDN Webcast: Building Microsoft Office 2003 Solutions Using XML and XML Web Services
There's a webcast next Thursday (Nov. 3) that will show ways you can leverage Office 2003's XML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/27/2005
XML 2005 Conference
The XML 2005 Conference is just around the corner (only a few weeks away)! It starts on November...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/26/2005
Real world example: Shredding Office documents and storing in a backend database
I've been receiving various e-mails from folks showing solutions they are building on top of the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/25/2005
Knowledge is the "key" when talking about XML support in Office
There has been a lot of speculation over what the XML support in Office really entails. I think...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/21/2005
More tools that work on top of Word XML
There is a company called CambridgeDocs that has built a tool that will transform from WordML into...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/20/2005
Example of using XSLT to import DB info into Word
Here's a blog entry I just came across where the user is building an XSLT that will transform their...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/17/2005
The myth of the Binary Key
I don't know where this myth began, but I have seen enough reference to it at this point that I...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/17/2005
Microsoft Office Open XML Format does not require upgrading to Office "12"
This is old news to a lot of you, but I wanted to call attention to this again because I've read...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/11/2005
New blog on PDF functionality in Office "12"
Interested in knowing all the intricate details of the PDF output functionality coming in Office...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/07/2005
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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/04/2005
Follow up on questions around PDF support in Office "12" (part 1 of many)
Sorry for not posting any replies to the PDF questions sooner, it's been pretty busy. I have a list...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/04/2005
Native PDF support in Office "12"
Today's another exciting day as we move closer to Beta 1. We are just wrapping up the MVP summit...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 10/01/2005
Converting WordprocessingML into HTML (for easy viewing)
Many people have asked me if there is an easy way to go from Word XML into XHTML. I've already...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/30/2005
Some background information on the reasons we have moved to an XML format as the default in Office "12"
This continues to be a really good discussion and I want to thank everyone who has taken time to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/29/2005
Follow-up on comments from the royalty-free license discussion
This continues to be a really great discussion. I think we're really starting to get somewhere....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/25/2005
New blog on Excel '12'
David Gainer has started a blog discussing the next version of Excel. David is the GPM of the Excel...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/23/2005
Continued support for Office 2003 XML schemas
I've had a few folks ask this question so I figured I'd just quickly call it out. As we've been...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/23/2005
More on the royalty-free licenses for the Microsoft Office Open XML formats
Well, now that PDC is over I've had a chance to look into the issues and comments from our...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/22/2005