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[Blog Map] This post contains a detailed description of each of the PowerTools for Open XML cmdlets.  For an overview and view of PowerTools for Open XML, see Automated Processing of Open XML Documents using PowerShell.  For more information on the cmdlets, see: www.codeplex.com/powertools. Set-OpenXmlCustomXmlData The ...

[Blog Map]  One of the most common scenarios for Open XML is programmatically adding, deleting, and moving paragraphs in a word processing document.  A variation on this is moving or copying paragraphs from one document to another.  This programming task is complicated by the need to keep other parts of the document in sync with ...

Julien Chable has posted the details (in English and French) of his installer for PowerTools for Open XML. Antonio Zamora has posted details about the award-winning scripts that he wrote using PowerTools for Open XML and the VMware Infrastructure Toolkit.  Nice! Róger Bermúdez posted about a real-life scenario - using a script to send bulk ...

About three months ago, I posted the PowerTools for Open XML on CodePlex.  I also posted a video on installing and using them.  The response has been very positive – more than 1000 downloads, a lot of blog posts, and some news stories.  I’ve received a fair amount of email regarding them. I'd like to determine the extent of ...

When I was writing the LINQ to XML documentation, Ralf Lämmel was the program manager for LINQ to XSD, an incubation project in the data programmability group at Microsoft.  Ralf really helped me a lot in those days, both with questions on LINQ to XML, and questions around functional programming.  It was in email exchanges ...

Johann Granados (of Staff DotNet) recently blogged about some new cmdlets for working with spreadsheets.  Using these cmdlets, you can: Add a new table to a spreadsheet Set values for a cell or cell range Set the style for a cell or cell range Set the width of a column Working with Open XML using PowerShell is one of the most ...

Antonio Zamora has posted an interesting article on using PowerTools for Open XML in a workflow using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).  We're seeing quite a few people who are using PowerTools for Open XML in a variety of scenarios.  If you are using WF, the article is worth a read.

ZDNet Asia recently interviewed Oliver Bell, Microsoft Asia-Pacific's regional technology officer.  The story mentions Oliver's blog post on the value that custom schema support adds to the format.  I can attest that I've had several conversations recently where customer's problems were solved by either custom XML parts that ...

Antonio Zamora from Staff DotNet has posted something pretty cool - firing off a PowerShell script from C# to apply a consistent style to multiple Open XML documents.  This is an interesting way to take advantage of the PowerTools for Open XML.

Julien Chable written a concise post on using PowerShell and Power Tools for Open XML to secure and sign Open XML documents.  He also has a short, useful intro to creating a PowerShell profile.  One more thing, Julien has joined the Power Tools for Open XML v-team.  Makes me happy.  Welcome, Julien!