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• Use the VBA SaveAs Method in Excel 2007

  7 Jul 2009

  Today’s author is Ron de Bruin , an Excel MVP. You can find more useful tips and links to Excel add-ins at his website: http://www.rondebruin.nl/ You see a lot of old SaveAs code that does not specify the FileFormat parameter. In Excel versions before Excel 2007, code without this parameter will not...
• Using the Open XML SDK to Work With Excel Files

  25 Nov 2008

  Over on Brian Jones' blog there are two recent articles that may be of interest to our readers here. They deal with using the Open XML SDK to programmatically interact with Excel's XML-based file format. One deals with "document assembly", which is essentially building a file mostly from scratch based...
• Reading Excel Files from Linux

  15 Aug 2008

  Today's author, Chris Rae, a Program Manager on the Excel team, talks about using Perl code to read Excel's new file format. The OOXML Format As most readers will know, we spent a lot of time during the development of Office 2007 in creating and documenting a new XML-based file format (Office Open XML...
• New Technical Article on Excel Services

  21 May 2008

  There's a new article up on MSDN that describes a custom solution built by the IT department here at Microsoft that uses Excel Services. Rather than re-paraphrase, I'll "borrow" liberally from Shahar's description : The solution is probably one of the most advanced implementation of Excel Services I...
• Office Open XML, a.k.a. IS 29500

  2 Apr 2008

  As everyone who has followed this blog already knows, we introduced a new file format with Office 2007 (and Excel 2007) with the extension .xlsx called Office Open XML (OOXML). Microsoft submitted the new file format to Ecma International, and in December 2006, that file format was approved as ECMA-376...
• Easier Access to Office Binary Format Documentation

  17 Jan 2008

  Brian Jones writes in his blog about some new developments with the Microsoft Office binary file formats. In summary, Microsoft will make the binary format documentation available directly from its web site, removing any intermediate steps that were previously required. In addition, Microsoft will make...