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Open XML Package Editor for Visual Studio updated and open-sourced
Back in 2010, we released the Open XML Package Editor for Visual Studio, a plugin which allowed...
Author: Chris Rae Date: 06/02/2014
ODF 1.2 enters the ISO standardization process
On March 26th, OASIS announced to the ODF TC that they had officially submitted ODF 1.2 to ISO/IEC...
Author: Chris Rae Date: 04/15/2014
Creating a simple XLSX from scratch using the Open XML SDK
Recently I've been scouting around Stack Overflow looking for Open XML-related questions - it's...
Author: Chris Rae Date: 08/18/2011
New interoperability testing library for ISO/IEC 29500 documents
One thing implementers of Open XML often get in touch with me about is test documents....
Author: Chris Rae Date: 07/12/2011
Trip report: WG4 Prague
Just back from another WG4 meeting, so I thought I’d write up a few thoughts. My trip was slightly...
Author: Chris Rae Date: 04/06/2011
My first dabblings in open source
When I started this job, I had a hunch that I'd be living a little more in the open source world,...
Author: Chris Rae Date: 12/26/2010
Using VBA to turn numbering into normal text in Word documents
As you probably know by now, I spend a lot of my time writing up proposed edits to the file format...
Author: Chris Rae Date: 10/08/2010
Where is the documentation for Office's docx/xlsx/pptx formats? Part 2: Office 2010
This follows up on my post earlier this week about where the documentation for Office 2007's formats...
Author: Chris Rae Date: 10/06/2010
Where is the documentation for Office's docx/xlsx/pptx formats? Part 1: Office 2007
Since we started using XML-based file formats, we’ve seen a huge uptick in the number of...
Author: Chris Rae Date: 09/25/2010
You do what?!
It seems wrong not to start a new blog with some sort of introduction, so here it is. My name is...
Author: Chris Rae Date: 05/26/2010