Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - Posts

Microsoft Office 2007 File Formats - Part 2

As I mentioned in the previous post, any new Office file (docx, xlsx, pptx, or their macro-enabled equivalents) contains a crucial element called [Content_Types].xml.  In this post I want to delve into the contents of this particular xml file.  Read More

Microsoft Office 2007 File Formats - Part 1

In the 2007 versions, Microsoft has radically improved the default file formats for Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  The first thing you'll notice is that .doc files become .docx (or .docm for macro-enabled documents).  Likewise we have .xlsx Read More