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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.

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Need information on SharePoint Metadata fields

Hi all, I'm needing some information regarding specific metadata available in SharePoint files/documents. Vti_replid, vti_rtag... etc I've gone through the protocol documentation but was unable to locate specific information about these fields. …

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.
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asked 2022-02-01T01:53:31.207+00:00
M-Dev 1 Reputation point
answered 2022-02-03T19:26:13.16+00:00
Mike Bowen 936 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers

convert word document to pdf and render via office.com or web api

My organization uses Microsoft extensively, Sharepoint Online, Office 365, etc. I want a web application to render Word and Excel documents by converting to PDF. I read where a page at office.com can be opened, including the URL of a document, and it…

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.
2,182 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.
93 questions
asked 2022-01-27T20:59:08.03+00:00
David McDivitt 186 Reputation points
commented 2022-01-28T23:11:43.613+00:00
Tom Jebo 1,056 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Clarification regarding ActionItemType for OneNote 2010 format

Hello! By MS-ONE every note tag has a property ActionItemType(paragraph 2.3.85). It is described as "an ActionItemType element (section 2.3.85) that specifies the identity of the note tag". We cannot understand what does it mean... 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.
93 questions
asked 2021-08-30T14:06:02.673+00:00
AlexeiSo 81 Reputation points
commented 2022-01-28T21:23:57.017+00:00
Tom Jebo 1,056 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers

3D coordinate system orientation in Office Drawing Binary File Format

The Office Drawing Binary File Format has the attributes c3DKeyX, c3DKeyY, c3DKeyZ and c3DFillX, c3DFillY, c3DFillZ. How is the coordinate system orientated? Is it a right-hand or a left-hand system?

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-11-12T18:21:26.22+00:00
Regina Henschel 106 Reputation points
commented 2022-01-06T18:06:36.917+00:00
Mike Bowen 936 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How PowerPoint 3D engine calculate scaling factor of 3D models (am3d:meterPerModelUnit)

I want to add some 3D models into PowerPoint presentation using OpenXML and C#, in order to generate proper XML tags, I drag GLB files into an empty presentation, then extract its XML contents. There are so many parameters with am3d tag, and I know about…

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-12-19T17:01:03.607+00:00
Ali Safe 21 Reputation points
answered 2022-01-05T19:53:32.707+00:00
Mike Bowen 936 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Diagnosing Invalid XLSX

Hi, Our software generated an xlsx. Trying to open it in excel results in an error and Excel offers to repair the file, and the repaired file appears to be fine. The repair log indicates that the problem was something in sheet3.xml, so I tried…

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-11-16T18:32:50.967+00:00
Matt Binsfeld 21 Reputation points
commented 2021-12-01T17:25:45.66+00:00
Mike Bowen 936 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Is there a way to remove the washout feature of Microsoft Word watermark?

When adding a watermark to the header of the word document, it automatically adds opacity to it. I want to remove that opacity and upon checking on the Microsoft Word itself, I found out that it can be removed by unchecking the Washout option. Can this…

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-11-23T08:19:58.647+00:00
Gabriel David 21 Reputation points
commented 2021-12-01T00:22:49.233+00:00
Gabriel David 21 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

MS-OVBA - V3 Content Normalized Data

Hi! I am to implement the V3 Content Normalized Data function. When appending the buffer of the references the algorithm says: IF next USHORT = REFERENCENAME.Id THEN ... END IF IF next USHORT = REFERENCENAME.Reserved THEN ... END IF …

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-11-18T16:11:45.86+00:00
Alexander P 21 Reputation points
commented 2021-11-30T10:27:51.827+00:00
SvenSo 1 Reputation point
2 answers

How to convert an csv sheet to excel(.xlsx) sheet using openxml??

Any code available for conversion of csv sheet to excel(.xlsx) sheet using 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.
93 questions
asked 2021-11-07T11:10:27.757+00:00
Kishan kumar 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-11-15T03:43:01.5+00:00
Leon Davis 1 Reputation point
1 answer

OpenXml get page number to which each paragraph

I have a Word docx file and I want to retrieve all the paragraphs in OpenXml with c#. I need to know: 1.-The number of pages of the Documents. 2.-The page number to which each paragraph belongs. Can you show an example where the paragraphs of 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.
93 questions
asked 2021-10-28T03:58:30.2+00:00
zequion 146 Reputation points
answered 2021-10-28T15:54:07.487+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 896 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer

MS Office Online document editing in Web Application with documents stored in File System

Hello, I am looking for MS Office Word document editing solution in the web browser for one of my ASP.net application where the documents are stored on the File System. The requirement is to View, edit the document in Web Browser that are…

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Microsoft Office Online Server
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Microsoft on-premises server product that runs Office Online. Previously known as Office Web Apps Server.
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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.
93 questions
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
A set of technologies in the .NET Framework for building web applications and XML web services.
1,324 questions
asked 2021-09-15T02:59:55.803+00:00
Varun Arora 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-10-27T17:53:04.057+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 896 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers

correct treatment of von-part in Word bibliography

I was directed here from this thread: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/correct-treatment-of-middle-name/d617e3a7-a5ff-4af3-95f7-dda49f33e5c7?messageId=ff78cc88-b9eb-4338-80b6-9a0eed447d9e According to the Microsoft answer, I…

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-10-23T09:00:27.883+00:00
Hendri Adriaens 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-10-25T17:52:44.62+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 896 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
0 answers

Co-authoring with desktop Office & custom cloud storage

Hello, I'm investigating possibility to give users ability of co-editing documents stored on the custom storage server. Server already can work with Office Online (via WOPI) also we have VSTO add-in that can open/save documents from/to server via REST…

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.
93 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.
2,182 questions
asked 2021-10-18T09:20:04.373+00:00
Volodymyr Ignatiev 1 Reputation point
commented 2021-10-21T08:58:39.55+00:00
Volodymyr Ignatiev 1 Reputation point
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Why do these documents have different data label separators?

I have a doughnut chart with the data label separator set to New Line. This shows up in chart1.xml under /c:ser/c:dLbls: However, in another document I have the same xml, but the data labels separator shows as Comma. Here are…

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-09-27T17:58:04.02+00:00
Kyle Rosenberg 171 Reputation points
accepted 2021-09-27T18:44:21.777+00:00
Kyle Rosenberg 171 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Why is this patternType showing as solid instead of none?

This excel file (https://windwardstudios.box.com/s/t1mh7xlgwlwni3b4j6l8x986ymiqvsf1) has a conditional formatting rule that adds a light red background. In xl/worksheets/sheet2.xml, I can see that the dxfId of the cfRule is "1" …

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-09-01T17:38:06.777+00:00
Kyle Rosenberg 171 Reputation points
commented 2021-09-03T18:20:20.123+00:00
Kyle Rosenberg 171 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

unit for coordinates of points in wrapPolygon

Hi, the OOXML standard specifies for the wrapPolygon element (§20.4.2.16) the type CT_WrapPath. It is a sequence of one element "start" and at least two elements "lineTo". These have the type CT_Point2D. That has the 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.
93 questions
asked 2021-05-22T18:51:08.997+00:00
Regina Henschel 106 Reputation points
answered 2021-08-18T22:18:38.92+00:00
Regina Henschel 106 Reputation points
1 answer

EXCEL REPAIR

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="true"?> -<recoveryLog xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main"> <logFileName>error031120_01.xml</logFileName> …

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-08-06T04:47:45.827+00:00
Lakshman Saw Mills Timber 1 Reputation point
answered 2021-08-17T19:16:30.793+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 896 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How is font determined with no font declaration?

Hello, I have a question regarding how the font is determined in the document.xml file. In the word template there is a content control checkbox with a Wingdings checkmark as the marker. After the checkbox is just simple test with the font Trebuchet MS…

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.
93 questions
asked 2021-08-12T16:50:40.253+00:00
Connor Shore 116 Reputation points
accepted 2021-08-17T15:35:57.543+00:00
Connor Shore 116 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Automatically autofit row heights for columns where the text wraps when loading an Excel sheet?

I am creating an Excel sheet with the python openpyxl library (which is extremely cool and useful). The sheet contains two columns of some fixed, preset width which contains text. The format of these columns is set to auto-wrap, so if the text is longer…

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.
93 questions
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JavaScript API
An Office service that supports add-ins to interact with objects in Office client applications.
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asked 2021-03-05T17:32:06.013+00:00
Johann Petrak 26 Reputation points
commented 2021-08-09T15:05:59.61+00:00
Geezer 1 Reputation point
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

WOPI unlock call | PutFile call delay - never gets triggered in chrome and latest edge browser - Fixed with OOS 2021 June 3 Security Patch

This is a known issue where Chrome is deprecating Sync XHR on Oct 22 2019, affecting WAC's ability to unlock file and shutdown gracefully. At this time, no timeline when a fix will be ready. Per Chrome,…

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.
93 questions
asked 2020-12-11T20:45:03.43+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 896 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
accepted 2021-07-21T21:58:09.59+00:00
Hung-Chun Yu 896 Reputation points Microsoft Employee