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[MS-OVBA] V3 Signature Documentation?

Hi, in this blog entry and KB5000676 a new VBA project signature scheme 'V3 signature' is mentioned. However, it seems not to be documented in the currently available [MS-OVBA] - is there going to be a new version of [MS-OVBA] or is the 'V3…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-05-20T11:40:29.867+00:00
roger-eggenberger 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-06-07T08:09:28.983+00:00
roger-eggenberger 1 Reputation point
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Using negative values for effectExtent of a DrawingML object in Word

The OOXML standard specifies type ST_Coordinates as type of the attributes of the effectExtent element (§20.4.2.6). The type ST_Coordinates can have negative values, see §20.1.10.16, then ST_CoordinateUnqualified simple type (§20.1.10.19) or…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-05-20T13:40:10.963+00:00
Regina Henschel 151 Reputation points
answered 2021-05-27T23:41:20.63+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,516 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Why are the images not working for certain markers in this chart?

I have two documents - one where the image set in the chart.xml for the marker is showing in the chart (markers_show.docx), and one where its just showing the "automatic" marker (markers_dont_show.docx). In both charts, the c:marker node for…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-05-25T16:33:33.51+00:00
Kyle Rosenberg 171 Reputation points
commented 2021-05-27T14:06:28.077+00:00
Kyle Rosenberg 171 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Is there an OpenXML PDF that lists child nodes?

Hi all; I have the spec as the file c065533_ISO_IEC_29500-1_2016.pdf and unlike the previous spec, for each node, it does not list the child nodes with links to them. Is there a version of the spec that does have the child node lists & links? …

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.
127 questions
asked 2020-12-27T16:15:07.703+00:00
David Thielen 2,776 Reputation points
commented 2021-05-25T05:05:54.84+00:00
Tom Jebo 1,996 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
4 answers

Confusing behaviour of Excel table style

Hi, I don't understand Excel's behaviour when viewing a document with a table. The table has a style: white background and orange text and borders. Cell A2 takes background color from the table style, but cell A3 overrides the table style…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-04-26T23:58:05.737+00:00
Yevhen Rezohlazov 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-05-24T23:47:15.733+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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21.2.2.128 order - is 0 top-most or bottom-most

Hi all; I'm trying to figure out how the c:lineChart/c:ser/c:order@Anonymous is applied. If you look at ATE-4988_topmost.docx the line chart with order=0 is top-most. But if you look at ATE-4988_bottommost.docx the line series with order=0 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.
127 questions
asked 2021-03-21T16:19:26.96+00:00
David Thielen 61 Reputation points
commented 2021-05-19T18:53:32.877+00:00
David Thielen 2,776 Reputation points
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Why we need applyFont or applyNumFmt?

I am confused about the attributes contained in xf. It seems it is unnecessary to use these attributes.

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-05-17T13:08:15.277+00:00
Jiangming He 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-05-18T17:30:54.717+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,516 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Marker settings in the style1.xml file

Hi all; In the chart1.xml a marker is defined as: <c:marker> <c:symbol val="square"/> <c:size val="5"/> <c:spPr> …

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-03-21T21:15:59.287+00:00
David Thielen 61 Reputation points
answered 2021-04-14T22:40:47.827+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,516 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

How can I set the fallback chart format, and then force it to create a colors.xml & styles.xml

Hi all; I'm trying to figure out a way to have Word (or Excel) set c:chartSpace/mc:alternateContent/mc:Fallback/c:style@Anonymous to a specific value (1 ... 48). And force it to create the colors1.xml and styles1.xml to match that val. I can't…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-03-21T18:32:17.83+00:00
David Thielen 61 Reputation points
answered 2021-03-31T17:01:01.53+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,516 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Colors for chart

Hi; I'm in some code written years ago to render the charts in OpenXML. There's some code that, if there is no references colors.xml file for a chart, it uses some hard-coded color settings. For the chart line/bar colors themselves it uses accent1,…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-02-26T00:36:15.637+00:00
David Thielen 61 Reputation points
answered 2021-03-24T21:21:28.667+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,516 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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WOPI IMPLEMENTERS PLEASE READ

IMPORTANT NOTES: Office for the Web Integration This Q&A Site targets integrations with the Office Online Server (on-premises) product deployments, not Office for the Web (formerly known as Office 365) product (cloud). For Office for the Web…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-03-18T23:54:13.707+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

What are there markers in the chart when there's no <c:marker> nodes?

Hi all; Please look at ATE-4761.docx. It has markers (scatter chart). But in chart1.xml there is no c:marker node. I assume there are defaults, but what are they? And does only scatter have markers if no marker node is specified? thanks - dave

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-03-02T23:49:30.337+00:00
David Thielen 61 Reputation points
commented 2021-03-05T17:50:29.427+00:00
David Thielen 61 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Where is the latest OpenXML spec?

Hi all; I know I've asked this before, but I can't find the post here. Where is the latest spec? I have ISO/IEC 29500-1 from 2016 and today I searched and it does not even list the AlternateContent under chartSpace. It's also really hard to use…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-02-26T12:49:42.007+00:00
David Thielen 61 Reputation points
accepted 2021-02-27T15:26:41.077+00:00
David Thielen 61 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Why do the data labels not show in this chart?

Hi all; Please take a look at the file ATE-4760.docx. Why do data labels not appear for the red & green lines? If you look inside the chart1.xml, in the <c:dLbls> part it has: <c:showVal val="1"/> So why does it not show?…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-02-22T22:02:47.62+00:00
David Thielen 61 Reputation points
commented 2021-02-24T18:02:08.007+00:00
Tom Jebo 1,996 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Is this possible in Word / Office or can it be developed by a third party?

I am very new to MS Word/Office coming from a scientific background where mostly Linux is used. I am working on machine learning and natural language processing. I would be interested if something like the following is possible or could be implemented in…

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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.
127 questions
asked 2021-02-23T10:07:34.943+00:00
Johann Petrak 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-02-23T22:21:45.73+00:00
Tom Jebo 1,996 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Open XML Word Processing: how to sort a table in word document using openXML

Hi, I am using Open XML word processing to add a table into a word document. I want to sort the table content using open xml word processing. Is there any way to sort the table using open xml? Thanks.

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-02-11T11:40:23.457+00:00
Neha Dharmadhikari 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-02-12T21:25:18.733+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

[MS-DOC] Missing fields in the structure FibRgFcLcb97

The documentation for FibBase states that (Consider the bold part) pnNext (2 bytes): An unsigned integer that specifies the offset in the WordDocument stream of the FIB for the document which contains all the AutoText items. If this value is 0,…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-01-19T07:55:32.727+00:00
Hyundeok Park 116 Reputation points
accepted 2021-01-28T08:32:30.857+00:00
Hyundeok Park 116 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How do I calculate beforeAutospacing?

Hi all; Ok, so I have the following in a doxument.xml: <w:spacing w:before="100" w:after="100" w:beforeAutospacing="1" w:afterAutospacing="1"/> Reading the spec it says: Specifies whether a consumer…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-01-02T17:57:06.607+00:00
David Thielen 2,776 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-28T02:02:38.243+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 976 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

[WOPI] Cells displayed incorrectly with "Accounting Number Format" styling applied. "RestrictedWebViewOnly" issue.

We've noticed an issue with displaying cells in read only mode. Cells using "Accounting Number Format" styling are not displayed correctly. What we do is set ReadOnly and RestrictedWebViewOnly in CheckFileInfo to true. When the file…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-01-14T12:26:25.377+00:00
Pepijn 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-01-27T18:29:51.827+00:00
Mike Bowen 1,516 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Faulty hyperlink in open specifications for MS-DOC

The following article contains an invalid hyperlink. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_file_formats/ms-doc/79dea1e9-4dce-4fa0-8c6b-56ba37b68351 As analyzed with the developer tool, the hyperlink for Binary Document Password…

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.
127 questions
asked 2021-01-17T16:51:14.99+00:00
Hyundeok Park 116 Reputation points
commented 2021-01-27T18:17:58.003+00:00
Tom Jebo 1,996 Reputation points Microsoft Employee