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Clever Age réalise pour Microsoft Corp. un plugin permettant à Word 2007 d’utiliser le format OpenDocument (ODF) d’OpenOffice

“OpenXML represents a paradigm shift not only in its architecture but also in the customer needs it serves, opening organizations’ existing documents to take advantage of new content management and collaboration scenarios that weren’t possible even as recently as a few years ago ,” said Frédéric Bon, CEO of Clever Age. “Through the documentation Ecma International is creating and work such as the Open XML Translator project, customers will soon have the confidence that Open XML and ODF formats can coexist and new document scenarios will flourish. We are looking forward to working with the community of developers and businesses interested in XML documents.”

The Ecma International Technical Committee (TC45) is working to establish a standard for Office Open XML File Formats.

Today I'm going to focus on Word. Obviously there is a huge set of features and functionality in Word, and I won't really be able to do much more than just scratch the surface today (but hopefully this will be a good start).

My goal is to save you some time in getting started with the spec if you're 100% new to Office Open XML.

I'm Brian Jones, a program manager in Office. I've been working on the XML functionality and file formats in Office for about 5 years now. In this blog, I'll mainly focus on XML in Office and the Open XML File Formats coming in the 2007 Microsoft Office system.