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syntax definition of structure-reference misses brackets

Assume you have an Excel Table named myData. And this Excel Table has first row with labels Name, Gender, Class, Age and Time . With the syntax rules for structure-reference starting on page 37 in [MS-XLSX] - v20240416, I get this construction: Gender is…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
Office Management
Office Management
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,106 questions
asked 2024-08-04T17:31:06.3533333+00:00
Regina Henschel 201 Reputation points
commented 2024-09-04T22:33:45.2733333+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,776 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Can't find the http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/drawing/2015/06/chart schema to download

Hello Microsoft Team! I have a problem with an XML schema, I can't find it anywhere. I tried here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards/ms-odrawxml/bdc95a77-957c-40f8-9ef2-47cbcdeb8af2 but without success, I can't find nothing…

Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
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Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
Office Management
Office Management
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,106 questions
asked 2024-08-13T08:00:45.3566667+00:00
VM 25 Reputation points
edited the question 2024-09-02T05:40:59.1466667+00:00
Emi Zhang-MSFT 24,441 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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How is "character unit" defined?

The OOXML standard (part 1) uses the term "character unit" in various places, for example in the definition of attribute firstLineChars. But it does not define the term "character unit". The file [MS-DOCX] has neither a…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-08-06T17:37:34.77+00:00
Regina Henschel 201 Reputation points
commented 2024-08-20T19:18:38.01+00:00
Tom Jebo 1,996 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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What does XFS = 16*XF [XFCRC 16*4050XFExt], and this 16 * and 16*4050 mean in excel in XLS format?

When looking at the composition in excel in xls format, I noticed that there is a section in there that is XFS, which represents the contents of the set of XFs. XFS = 16* XF [XFCRC 16* 4050XFExt] I think it means that there are 16 XFs, and then the next…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-08-09T00:55:05.0933333+00:00
zurmokeeper 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-08-09T21:40:08.9133333+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,776 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Retrieve the Numbered Bullet Number from Word Document Table Cell with OpenXml

We are working on an application which reads the MS Word document template having information entered in a specific table. The first column of the table holds the Steps number in numbered bullet list format. We have tried many alternatives to read the…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-08-06T11:48:38.8+00:00
Solanke, Sunil (Pune) 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-08-09T05:22:25.1533333+00:00
Solanke, Sunil (Pune) 0 Reputation points
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Do I need '_DataSpaces' in Excel's file encryption process?

→ The picture above shows the result of unpacking after performing integrated encryption through the Office program. → The picture above is the result of unpacked after encrypting through the source I wrote. In the above two cases, there was a…

Excel
Excel
A family of Microsoft spreadsheet software with tools for analyzing, charting, and communicating data.
1,804 questions
Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-08-07T06:51:35.4733333+00:00
jh.ryu 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-08-08T23:09:40.7366667+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,776 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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How is "character unit" defined?

The OOXML standard (part 1) uses the term "character unit" in various places, for example in the definition of attribute firstLineChars. But it does not define the term "character unit". The file [MS-DOCX] has neither a…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-08-06T17:58:16.59+00:00
Regina Henschel 201 Reputation points
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How is "character unit" defined?

The OOXML standard (part 1) uses the term "character unit" in various places, for example in the definition of attribute firstLineChars. But it does not define the term "character unit". The file [MS-DOCX] has neither a…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-08-06T17:32:53.3166667+00:00
Regina Henschel 201 Reputation points
2 answers

PowerPoint emits an error when trying to save a file that opened without problems.

PowerPoint opens the presentation without problems, but emits an error when trying to save it, and then the file is saved without problems, ie the files works fine after saving. The solution I seek is how to modify the xml files of the presentation (I…

PowerPoint
PowerPoint
A family of Microsoft presentation graphics products that offer tools for creating presentations and adding graphic effects like multimedia objects and special effects with text.
279 questions
Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,826 questions
Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-07-30T10:39:54.57+00:00
Stefan Krabbe 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2024-08-02T00:10:02.0366667+00:00
Tom Jebo 1,996 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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How to encrypt excel in xls format?

How to encrypt excel in xls format? This document below only talks about some algorithms and processes for decryption, it doesn't explain how to encrypt? link

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-07-26T10:01:51.32+00:00
zurmokeeper 0 Reputation points
answered 2024-07-29T18:25:26.4133333+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,776 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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text rectangle in pie shape has top and right value exchanged in the standard

Start PowerPoint. Draw a Pie shape (UI Partial Circle) that is wider than high. Add some text to the shape with alignment left. Copy that shape and insert it. Save the file. Now open the file markup and replace in one of the shapes the prstGeom with a…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-07-22T10:00:33.49+00:00
Regina Henschel 201 Reputation points
accepted 2024-07-23T00:08:39.4166667+00:00
Regina Henschel 201 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

All Application and their methods to be used by CreateObject

With reference to [MS-VBAL], section 6.1.2.8.1.4 about CreateObject function, it is mentioned that the 'Class' argument has a string data value, containing the application name and class of the object to create. After some exploration i found that you…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-06-26T07:02:21.5533333+00:00
Parth Gupta 180 Reputation points
accepted 2024-06-30T08:37:22.56+00:00
Parth Gupta 180 Reputation points
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docx generated using OpenXml does not show form elements in MS Word

We use OpenXml to covert html to word. This generated word file does not show radio buttons and check boxes when opened in MS word. It used to show but with recent windows updates, radio buttons and check boxes disappeared. Html contains form…

Word
Word
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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Office Development
Office Development
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Development: The process of researching, productizing, and refining new or existing technologies.
3,826 questions
Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-05-16T15:21:41.92+00:00
Kalyan Alapati 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-06-09T11:32:57.7833333+00:00
Kalyan Alapati 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Clarification on 'WordDocument' stream in OLE file format

Hi, I am trying to parse a '.doc' file (OLE file) in Python. I am trying to understand the structure of the 'WordDocument' stream inside the file. With reference to [MS-DOC] and [MS-CFB], it is known that this stream must be present and have the FIB…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-06-02T11:43:36.5766667+00:00
Parth Gupta 180 Reputation points
accepted 2024-06-08T06:27:15.7666667+00:00
Parth Gupta 180 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Clarification on picture placement and location in OLE file format

Hi, I am parsing a '.doc' file in python (OLE). I was looking at [MS-CFB] and [MS-DOC] and i am unable to find a reference to find the following: Where (at what offset/sector) can i find (multiple) images that are in my file? In the 'WordDocument'…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-06-02T12:01:04.7433333+00:00
Parth Gupta 180 Reputation points
accepted 2024-06-05T07:53:54.2+00:00
Parth Gupta 180 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Documentation on formats of stream objects in OLE files.

Hi, I am trying to parse a ".doc" file (Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document) (OLE), and I am looking for some documentation. I found the following…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-05-31T10:52:43.25+00:00
Parth Gupta 180 Reputation points
edited a comment 2024-06-03T22:05:43.5466667+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,776 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Clarification on allowed names for storage and streams in OLE files

I am parsing an OLE file using Python, and I want to know if there is a predetermined set of names that can be given to streams and storages in the Directory structure of the OLE file. If there is, please provide all the possible names that can be used…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-06-02T08:40:03.6366667+00:00
Parth Gupta 180 Reputation points
answered 2024-06-03T21:21:30.2466667+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,776 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

FORMCHECKBOX field code doesn't render checkbox

I have a word document that contains a FORMCHECKBOX field code I can view by hitting ALT-F9, however when I toggle it to not show the field code, there is no checkbox that appears in its place. Why is this? In our software we insert a checkbox when we…

Office
Office
A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.
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Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
Office Management
Office Management
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
2,106 questions
asked 2024-05-09T15:38:05.5166667+00:00
Connor Shore 186 Reputation points
edited the question 2024-05-14T01:52:58.99+00:00
Emi Zhang-MSFT 24,441 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
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LightDirection on shape with 3D effect is rendered different than specified

Insert a circle, set a large (72pt for 5.04cm circle width) rounded bevel and use a projection without rotation. That way you can see the direction of the lightning. When you rotate the camera, you should mark the axes with arrows. Use a gray fill color…

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-02-20T23:48:40.8033333+00:00
Regina Henschel 201 Reputation points
commented 2024-03-14T19:25:16.2233333+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,776 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

how add date in openxml

how to add custom date format in openxml

Office Open Specifications
Office Open Specifications
Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.Open Specifications: Technical documents for protocols, computer languages, standards support, and data portability. The goal with Open Specifications is to help developers open new opportunities to interoperate with Windows, SQL, Office, and SharePoint.
137 questions
asked 2024-03-11T17:03:50.96+00:00
Bhavsar Devendra (Mumbai - IT) 0 Reputation points
commented 2024-03-11T20:35:27.7+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,776 Reputation points Microsoft Employee