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Announcement: 2

Office XML, ODF, and Binary File Formats announcement

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    MSDN Office Release Notes - September 2015
    Michelle Hammond Friday, September 11, 2015 4:25 AM

    The September 4, 2015 release contains updates made to the Microsoft Office Protocols documents in relation to the release of Office Desktop 2016 and Skype for Business 2016.

    Microsoft Office File Formats links:

    • Landing Page: Office File Formats
    • Full documentation set (zip):  Microsoft Office File Formats Documentation

    Microsoft Office Protocols links:

    • Landing Page: Office Protocols
    • Full documentation set (zip):  Microsoft Office Protocols Documentation

    Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support links:

    • Landing Page: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support
    • Full documentation set (zip):  Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support Documentation

    The following new specifications have been added:

    • None.

    The following protocols have been archived:

    • None.

    The following known issues exist in this release:

    • None.
  • Link
    Outlook PST File Format Documentation Announcement
    Chris Mullaney Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:40 PM
    A number of people have inquired about the .pst file format on this forum in the past, and at that time we stated we would provide an update if the .pst file format specification becomes available. This week we announced our documentation plan for the .pst file format specification on the Interoperability @ Microsoft blog,. If you are interested in actively participating in the review of preliminary drafts of the .pst file format specification, send an email message to pstinfo@microsoft.com and then we will contact you when a preliminary draft of the specification is ready for broader review. If you only are seeking the final version, we anticipate releasing the .pst file format specification in the first half of 2010 under our Open Specification Promise.

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    Office File Formats and the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support Release Notes — June, 2017

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    Office XML, ODF, and Binary File Formats
    These notes cover the Office File Formats and the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support releases in May and June, which included bug fixes and a variety of other updates for the ...
    Sticky | 0 Replies | 174 Views | Created by Tom Jebo - Tuesday, July 18, 2017 11:32 PM
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    Open Specifications General FAQ

    Open Specifications
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    This material should not be considered as a complete coverage of the frequently asked questions. Its goal is to capture the high-level questions in the Open Specifications ...
    Sticky | 0 Replies | 3194 Views | Created by JCurry - Tuesday, March 25, 2014 5:58 PM
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    Tint application algorithm not consistent with MS Excel

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    Dear MS team, I have an excel file that contains some background colors in themes. I can calculate every color properly, except for one. The color is defined as ...
    Unanswered | 4 Replies | 78 Views | Created by Sándor Kolumbán - Saturday, September 23, 2017 1:34 PM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:09 PM
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    Column width in XLSX format

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    It was suggested to me that I should try asking my question on this forum (I previously posted it here). So, I have an XLSX file which has the ...
    Unanswered | 4 Replies | 109 Views | Created by Pusting - Thursday, September 21, 2017 2:11 PM | Last reply by Will Gregg - Tuesday, September 26, 2017 9:26 PM
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    DOCX - what is the purpose of w:p/w:pPr/w:rPr?

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    The settings in there are not applied to the document as far as I can tell. So what are they for? Or are they applied in some circumstances? thanks - dave Who will win ...
    Answered | 8 Replies | 10778 Views | Created by DavidThi808 - Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:38 PM | Last reply by Will Gregg - Monday, September 25, 2017 11:37 PM
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    PowerPoint alignment discrepancy between text box and smart art.

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    Office XML, ODF, and Binary File Formats
    Dear MS support, I have a simple one slide pptx file that contains a textbox and a smart art object. The corresponding text markup is almost the same, but in one case the ...
    Answered | 12 Replies | 258 Views | Created by Sándor Kolumbán - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 12:51 PM | Last reply by Sándor Kolumbán - Friday, September 15, 2017 12:40 PM
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    Blob is not saving in DB with Java web service in Win 10 (office-2016) with Chinese Language.

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    Office XML, ODF, and Binary File Formats
    Blob is not saving in DB with Java web service in Win 10 with Chinese Language. our Application support only IE-11 and Office 32 bit.
    Proposed | 3 Replies | 165 Views | Created by Abhijeet Choudhary - Saturday, September 09, 2017 1:39 PM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Monday, September 11, 2017 3:16 PM
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    Modifying chart colors within Theme1.xml in .pptx file

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    Office XML, ODF, and Binary File Formats
    I'm trying to find the line of code where PowerPoint sets the color for the text within a new chart. In fact it's been bugging me for years.  I have the know-how to setup the ...
    Answered | 10 Replies | 1080 Views | Created by sir_daryl - Monday, December 14, 2015 9:14 PM | Last reply by LindaB322 - Tuesday, August 22, 2017 4:25 PM
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    Confusion as to Where Histogram Style Properties Come From and Other Strange Behavior

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    Greetings - I am having a hard time understanding which style element to use for Histogram charts.  Please refer to the test cases in this collection: ...
    Answered | 12 Replies | 895 Views | Created by BoulderPika - Wednesday, June 22, 2016 6:21 PM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Monday, August 14, 2017 9:28 PM
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    Could you point me to the official document that describes the file header of Microsoft Office XML document?

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    When saving a file in docx, xlsx, pptx format in Microsoft Office, the file header will be 0x 50 4B 03 04 14 00 06 00 08 00. Is there any official document that describes Microsoft ...
    Answered | 6 Replies | 248 Views | Created by KenTsuchiya - Thursday, August 03, 2017 7:09 AM | Last reply by Tom Jebo - Tuesday, August 08, 2017 6:01 PM
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    How does PowerPoint distinguish between significant and nonsignificant whitespace in xml markup?

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    Dear MS Support, We have a pptx file where I cannot figure out how does office decide which whitespace is  significant and which one is not. The code in ...
    Answered | 6 Replies | 192 Views | Created by Sándor Kolumbán - Friday, August 04, 2017 7:09 AM | Last reply by Sándor Kolumbán - Tuesday, August 08, 2017 5:34 AM
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    Value of BlipExtension Schema URI: “28A0092B-C50C-407e-A947-70E740481C1C”

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    In a lot of code samples I've seen the GUID value “28A0092B-C50C-407e-A947-70E740481C1C” used for the Uri property of a BlipExtension.  However I've not been able to ...
    Answered | 6 Replies | 1105 Views | Created by John.Bevan - Wednesday, November 04, 2015 2:15 PM | Last reply by Will Gregg - Saturday, August 05, 2017 7:03 PM
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    Forgot Word Password

    Open Specifications
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    Office XML, ODF, and Binary File Formats
    I forgot the password of an old word document. It is very important. What do I do? I think it is Word 2013.
    Proposed | 1 Replies | 152 Views | Created by Masterboxer - Friday, August 04, 2017 8:18 PM | Last reply by Bryan S. Burgin - Friday, August 04, 2017 9:15 PM
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    xml parsing error in damaged Word document

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    Have a corrupted Word document and found "xml parsing error at line 15941-premature end of data in tag document line 2" Am a novice ...
    Answered | 1 Replies | 152 Views | Created by Krystalle713 - Thursday, August 03, 2017 10:02 PM | Last reply by Bryan S. Burgin - Friday, August 04, 2017 3:42 PM
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    Pattern Fill Changes the Line Cap of a Pareto Line?

    Open Specifications
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    Greetings - I am trying to understand some strange behavior in PowerPoint 2016 related to pareto charts.  Please take a look at the two test cases in this .zip ...
    Proposed | 8 Replies | 1027 Views | Created by BoulderPika - Monday, June 13, 2016 8:06 PM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Tuesday, August 01, 2017 10:41 PM
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    Is insideH/insideV only if no explicit setting in tblStylePr?

    Open Specifications
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    Hi all; Please take a look at Bug_3193_c.docx, the first row of the first table. The internal vertical borders come from insideV. But the bottom border comes from bottom, ...
    Answered | 6 Replies | 196 Views | Created by DavidThi808 - Sunday, July 16, 2017 5:42 PM | Last reply by Tom Jebo - Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:58 PM
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    [MS-PST] Documentation - incorrect / insufficient documentation about internal / external BIDs

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    I've been using the latest [MS-PST] document (5/9/2017) and I could not figure out how to determine if a data block is internal or ...
    Proposed | 3 Replies | 275 Views | Created by Ross D J - Friday, July 14, 2017 4:02 PM | Last reply by Tom Jebo - Thursday, July 20, 2017 1:55 AM
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    Office File Formats and the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support Release Notes — June, 2017

    Open Specifications
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    Office XML, ODF, and Binary File Formats
    These notes cover the Office File Formats and the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support releases in May and June, which included bug fixes and a variety of other updates for the ...
    Discussion | 0 Replies | 174 Views | Created by Tom Jebo - Tuesday, July 18, 2017 11:32 PM
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    Why is a defined border not showing

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    Hi all; Please take a look at Bug3193.docx. About half way down on the left is the text "Capital Flows". I think it should have a border to its left, but it does ...
    Answered | 12 Replies | 672 Views | Created by DavidThi808 - Wednesday, December 28, 2016 9:37 PM | Last reply by Tarun Chopra - MSFT - Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:02 PM
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    Why is there no background?

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    Hi all, Please take a look at noBackground.docx.  The cells of the table have no color background, however in document.xml, the table style specifies shading of ...
    Answered | 6 Replies | 288 Views | Created by Connor Shore - Thursday, June 29, 2017 4:17 PM | Last reply by Will Gregg - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 8:30 PM
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    Table borders, who wins?

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    Hi all, Quick question.  I have a cell in the middle of a table with no right or left border being drawn.  Here is the table properties it is inheriting ...
    Answered | 5 Replies | 271 Views | Created by Connor Shore - Thursday, June 15, 2017 8:44 PM | Last reply by Tom Jebo - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 5:19 PM
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    Missing version 8.0 of [MS-DOCX] in Docx and HTML

    Open Specifications
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    On https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd773189.aspx the latest version is 7.0 under "Published versions". Following the Docx-Download-Link of this ...
    Answered | 3 Replies | 250 Views | Created by ernst80 - Wednesday, June 14, 2017 4:07 PM | Last reply by Will Gregg - Friday, June 16, 2017 8:07 PM
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Announcement: 2

Office XML, ODF, and Binary File Formats announcement

  • Link
    MSDN Office Release Notes - September 2015
    Michelle Hammond Friday, September 11, 2015 4:25 AM

    The September 4, 2015 release contains updates made to the Microsoft Office Protocols documents in relation to the release of Office Desktop 2016 and Skype for Business 2016.

    Microsoft Office File Formats links:

    • Landing Page: Office File Formats
    • Full documentation set (zip):  Microsoft Office File Formats Documentation

    Microsoft Office Protocols links:

    • Landing Page: Office Protocols
    • Full documentation set (zip):  Microsoft Office Protocols Documentation

    Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support links:

    • Landing Page: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support
    • Full documentation set (zip):  Word, Excel and PowerPoint Standards Support Documentation

    The following new specifications have been added:

    • None.

    The following protocols have been archived:

    • None.

    The following known issues exist in this release:

    • None.
  • Link
    Outlook PST File Format Documentation Announcement
    Chris Mullaney Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:40 PM
    A number of people have inquired about the .pst file format on this forum in the past, and at that time we stated we would provide an update if the .pst file format specification becomes available. This week we announced our documentation plan for the .pst file format specification on the Interoperability @ Microsoft blog,. If you are interested in actively participating in the review of preliminary drafts of the .pst file format specification, send an email message to pstinfo@microsoft.com and then we will contact you when a preliminary draft of the specification is ready for broader review. If you only are seeking the final version, we anticipate releasing the .pst file format specification in the first half of 2010 under our Open Specification Promise.

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