Brian Jones: Office Solutions
I'm Brian Jones, the group program manager of the Office Solutions Framework team.
Custom schema support in all Office "12" SKUs!
I haven't seen much mention of this yet so I wanted to call it out in case folks weren't aware yet....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/20/2005
Office blogs discussing the the Office "12" User Interface
Jensen Harris has started blogging about the new Office "12" UI. Folks who attended the keynotes at...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/17/2005
PDC Preview of the Office "12" schemas
Thanks to everyone that came to my PDC session yesterday on the new Office "12" file formats. We...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/14/2005
Intro to Word XML Part 6: Locking down your XML structures
[This post has been removed due to legal concerns]
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/09/2005
More on the Interoperability of the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats
Wow, there were a ton of great comments on my last post. While there were a large number of them,...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 09/05/2005
Article on Proposal for Massachusetts to move to OpenDocument
I just read this article today about Massachusetts wanting to move away from closed formats and...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/31/2005
Intro to Excel XML Part 3: Displaying your Data
At this point, we're getting really close to PDC and I can't wait. At PDC, I'm going to go through...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/25/2005
Capturing XML and Inserting XML in a Word Document
In almost any solution you build in Word, there will be times that you either want to capture the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/19/2005
Intro to Word XML Part 5: Opening custom XML
[This post was removed due to legal concerns]
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/16/2005
Transforming Word XML to XSL-FO
We put an article up back in the winter on transforming from WordprocessingML into XSL-FO. From...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/11/2005
XPS (fka "Metro") on Channel 9
Jerry Dunietz is now up on Channel 9 talking about the XML Paper Specification. They use ZIP in a...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/10/2005
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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/09/2005
Slashdot article on Apple outputting Word XML format
Slashdot: MS Office XML Format Now in TextEdit I saw this the other day on slashdot. I have to admit...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/05/2005
Article on TechWeb discussing the new XML formats
TechWeb: XML From Office? Microsoft's Open Promise...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/05/2005
Redaction add-in for Word 2003
This isn't a post on XML or the file formats, but I just saw this and wanted to link to it. Just the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/03/2005
Office 12 Sessions at PDC
It's really amazing how quickly this summer is going by. The Seahawks are starting up training camp...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/29/2005
Intro to Word XML Part 3: Using Your Own Schema
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Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/26/2005
Podcast from OfficeZealot available
Chris and Charles from OfficeZealot called me a couple weeks ago and we talked about the new...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/25/2005
Word XML's Context Free Chunks: Building a document from multiple pieces of content
This is a bit of a more obscure feature that I like to point out every now and then. It's great if...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/20/2005
A couple other blogs from the Office team...
This is a bit off topic, but I wanted to point out that Steven Sinofsky (senior vice president of...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/20/2005
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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/18/2005
Error in the Office 12 File Format FAQ (sorry)
Going into the announcement about the new formats last month there was just a ton of content that...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/14/2005
Office 12 XML Formats will support VBA (just not the default formats)
There are two forms of the new formats, one that supports VBA and one that doesn't. I just read this...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/12/2005
Article on Document Security
I just read this post on document security:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/12/2005
Give us your input on the Microsoft Office Open XML Schemas
Give us your feedback on the design of the file format. While the number one priority with the new...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/11/2005
Word XSLT: Data Only Transform
If you've played around with Word 2003's XML support, you're probably aware that you can load your...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/08/2005
Try Office 2003 XML Yourself - Free Online Labs
Are you interested in learning more about XML support in Office 2003? There are some great labs...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/08/2005
Why do Office ".xml" files behave differently from other ".xml" files?
Some of you who have worked with Office 2003 xml files may have noticed that while we use the ".xml"...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/07/2005
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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/05/2005
Simple debugging of Office XML files
Those previous two posts were meant to help people unfamiliar with Office XML get a taste of how you...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/01/2005
Intro to Excel XML Part 2: Displaying your data
Here's some more information for those of you new to XML or at least Office XML. I mentioned in the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/30/2005
Introduction to Excel XML Part 1: creating a simple table
I started this blog as a way of responding to news about the new formats, as well as give some...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/27/2005
Office's methods for parsing XML
As you know, there are many tools available today for parsing XML. If you want to work with the MS...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/24/2005
Readability vs. Performance of XML formats
This isn't really news for most folks, but I wanted to better explain this for those folks new to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/23/2005
Example Office 12 XML File
I wanted to get an example document posted so people get a chance to look through the new Office 12...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/20/2005
Manage your documents: Using Office XML formats and XSLTs
One of the main reasons we announced this new file format so early was that we wanted to give people...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/16/2005
MS Office Open XML Formats and OpenDocument XML format
I've had a number of questions and e-mails asking if the new Office open XML formats are going to be...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/13/2005
TechEd: Repeat Session for Office 12 XML File Formats
There will be a repeat session of the Office 12 XML File Formats on Thursday @ 1:30. Here's the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/08/2005
First presentation on the new XML formats
Yesterday was the first presentation I gave on the new file formats since we made our announcement...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/08/2005
Office 12 Buzzsite
The Office 12 buzzsite is now up and running. It's the best place to sign up for future updates on...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/06/2005
Accessing the Office Documents (ZIP package)
I've had a few questions from folks asking how people will be able to access and program against...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/06/2005
Office Open XML Formats at TechEd
I hope I'll get a chance to see everyone down in Orlando next week! I'll be down at teched from...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/03/2005
ZIP level Robustness for the Office XML Formats
I already mentioned this in one of my comments, but I wanted to expand on it a bit more. I want to...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/02/2005
License and patent confusion around Office XML formats
There seems to be a number of questions and misunderstandings around the license for the schemas and...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/02/2005
Talking with Scoble about the XML formats on Channel9
Robert Scoble swung by last week and we talked a bit about these new formats (very cool guy). He...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/02/2005
New default XML formats in the next version of Office
I’m Brian Jones, a program manager on the Word team. I’ve been at Microsoft for about 6 years, and...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/02/2005
Introduction / Test
I decided a few weeks ago that I should give blogging a try, but it’s taken me awhile to actually...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/24/2005