Brian Jones: Office Solutions
I'm Brian Jones, the group program manager of the Office Solutions Framework team.
Office Developer Conference Videos Online
Well, it was all the way back in March when we had the Office Developer's conference out here in...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 08/01/2006
Use the new Open XML formats to help out your favorite charity
This is pretty cool: https://www.developwithoutborders.com/Default.aspx There are a lot of ways that...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/31/2006
Spin Spin Sugar
OK, forgive the random Sneaker Pimps reference and I promise we will move off this topic of ODF...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/27/2006
Table models in file formats
In my post last week about the lack of table support in ODF, some folks were curious as to why the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/25/2006
Quick question for ODF experts
I must be reading this wrong, but in the ODF spec for tables it says the following: "This chapter...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/20/2006
XML in Office Developer Portal
There are a number of great sources of information on the new Office Open XML formats out there. I...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/20/2006
Sample code for generating a SpreadsheetML file
Doug Mahugh has another post on programmatically generating a basic Office Open XML file. This...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/18/2006
Politics behind standardization
Stephen McGibbon has an interesting blog post based on his observations of the politics behind...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/14/2006
New project for converting WordprocessingML to HTML
It looks like there is a new project starting up on the OpenXMLDeveloper.org community for...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/13/2006
Word XHTML - Bullets and Numbering
This is the fourth post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/12/2006
More information on the Open XML translator and some questions answered
There were a lot of great comments from last week's announcement about the creation of an open...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/11/2006
Open XML Translator project announced (ODF support for Office)
Today we are announcing the creation of the Open XML Translator project that will help translate...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/06/2006
TechEd presentation on Office Open XML available for download
For those of you who weren't able to attend my talk at TechEd 2006 on the file formats, you can...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 07/05/2006
Sample code for creating a DOCX file
Doug Mahugh had a post a couple days ago where he provides some basic code that will generate a...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/29/2006
Writing managed solutions for Office 2007
Patrick Smith has a post up on Dave Gainer's blog talking about the updated PIA story for Office...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/27/2006
Back from Sapporo - tons of progress in Ecma
Well, it has definitely been a pretty hectic couple weeks, and it's going to take me awhile to get...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/26/2006
Code snippets for working with the Open XML formats
This is my first time on an airplane with wifi, so I'm pleased to bring this news to you from...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/17/2006
More on the PDF support in Office
In the comments of my latest post around the legal issues we’re currently dealing with from Adobe...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/16/2006
Interoperability by design
Today we announced the formation of a new customer council focused on interoperability (how to make...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/14/2006
Learn more about Word 2007's support for seperating data from presentation
If you're heading out to TechEd this week like I am, you should definitely plan on attending Tristan...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/12/2006
TechEd Boston
Who else is going to be heading out to Boston next week for Tech Ed 2006? I'll be out there for a...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/09/2006
Word XHTML - Mapping styles to semantics
This is the third post by Zeyad Rajabi who owns the XHTML output from Word's new blogging feature....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/08/2006
Thoughts on Open XML in ISO
As we move forward with the standardization of the Office Open XML formats, it's interesting to look...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/05/2006
Follow-up on PDF legal issues
There have been a ton of really great comments and questions today in relation to the news that we...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/03/2006
Legal issues around PDF support
About 8 months ago we announced to our MVPs that we would provide PDF publish support natively in...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/02/2006
Highlighting in a document
I've had a lot of folks ask me to provide more information on what features are missing from ODF and...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 06/01/2006
Word XHTML - Compliance and Styles
This is the 2nd post in a series by Zeyad Rajabi who is a program manager working on Word's XHTML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/30/2006
Spreadsheet performance - Shared Formulas
I wanted to follow up on the thread I started a couple weeks ago discussing the design goals behind...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/29/2006
Numbering formats in ODF
I was wondering if someone more familiar with the ODF spec could help me out. I had made the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/26/2006
The 2007 Office system... already over 500,000 served
I saw this article up on betanews this afternoon saying that just 24 hours after going live, there...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/25/2006
Easy way to send us your feedback
There is now a really easy way to provide feedback as you are using Office 2007. Directly from Joe...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/25/2006
Beta downloads and One year anniversary
Hard to believe it's only been a year since I first started blogging... so much has happened. It's...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/25/2006
4000 pages of documentation
There has been a great overall reaction to the news last week of Ecma's first public draft for the...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/24/2006
Use the Open XML formats today with Office XP & Office 2003
A coworker of mine, just reminded me that for those folks interested in using the new Open XML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/23/2006
DocBook to WordprocessingML conversion
I just ran across this link today and was wondering if anyone else had checked it out:...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/23/2006
Get Office 2007 today!
This is shaping up to be a pretty cool month. Last week we finally had the first public draft of...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/23/2006
XHTML in Word 2007's blogging tool
Today we have a guest writer to discuss the HTML output that we have in the new blogging...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/22/2006
Draft 1.3 of the Ecma Office Open XML formats standard
Wow, we finally have an updated draft of the Ecma Office Open XML formats standard!...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/18/2006
Programmatically manipulate properties in a WordprocessingML file
There is a new article that will be in the June MSDN magazine that shows how to work with a Word...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/17/2006
Does tag size matter?
Surprisingly, I haven't seen much information out there discussing the performance impacts of XML...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/16/2006
Hey, let's start talking about the technologies and what kind of solutions we can build!
There were a few interesting articles I saw this week that I wanted to point people at....
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/12/2006
Blogging from Word 2007
Joe Friend has finally made it public that there will be built in blog functionality in Word 2007! I...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/12/2006
Design Goals Behind SpreadsheetML
It's been awhile since I've talked in detail about the SpreadsheetML schema and I apologize. I had a...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/10/2006
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...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 05/04/2006
Create a webpage for editing WordprocessingML documents
Sorry to have taken so long between blog posts. I was off in London all last week for the latest...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 04/27/2006
Off to London
Well, I’m off to the next Ecma TC45 face to face meeting where we’ll continue to make progress in...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 04/17/2006
Create your own simple Open XML editor
You can create your very own Open XML editor! Over on openxmldeveloper.org, there is a new article...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 04/13/2006
What other schemas are supported?
I've had a few folks ask me about other industry standard schemas out there like HR-XML, XBRL,...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 04/12/2006
Intro to PresentationML part 1 - Core architecture and the "presentation" part
I've really dropped the ball here over the past several months. I'd been meaning to post some...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 04/11/2006
New Bio-IT Alliance will take advantage of the Open XML formats
Here's another example of folks getting ready to take advantage of the Open XML formats for their...
Author: I'm Brian Jones Date: 04/04/2006