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Staff Dot Net, a small consultancy and training company, is now providing binary builds of the PowerTools for Open XML.  You can download the binary build here. I'm really happy that someone in the community has jumped in and volunteered to help in this way.  This makes it much easier to get started.  You no longer need to use ...

In our family, we have a rule – on Mother's day, my wife basically gets to set the agenda for the entire weekend.  And, as appropriate, she doesn't have to lift a finger around the house.  And on Father's day, the same rule applies for me.  But on all other weekends, normal rules apply.  This year, because my wife was out of ...

I am a newbie to PowerShell scripting.  This is probably pretty obvious to anyone who has taken a look at the PowerShell scripts that I've written.  Fortunately, there are people around who can improve on my efforts. Developer/Author Doug Finke has developed a much, much cleaner version of the PowerTools BulkMailing.ps1 script that ...

Sometimes you want to generate a wordprocessing document that contains a table.  I've created an XML file that contains customers and orders, and a PowerShell script that uses the PowerTools for Open XML that generates a set of documents, each containing a table: The script and the source XML file are attached. See Automated ...

In my enthusiasm to move the extraneous namespaces from the middle of the diffgram, I introduced a bug that would cause a duplicate attribute exception to be thrown in certain circumstances.  I've fixed the code, and updated the orginal blog post.  Sorry.

I found the documentation for the diffgram.  I've udated the original post with the location. Also, I modified the code that prints the diffgram to remove the extraneous namespace declarations - this cleans up the diffgram significantly. I've updated the code on the original post.  If you downloaded the code from the original post, you ...

I had a thought that the instructions in the post, OpenXmlDiff.Exe: A Utility to Find the Differences Between Two Open XML Documents looked a little complicated - more complicated than actuality.  So I put together this 3 minute screen-cast that shows how to build and use the utility. Video: PowerTools for Open XML Introduction  

This blog post introduces a small command line utility (OpenXmlDiff.Exe, code attached to this page) that compares two Open XML documents and produces a textual report of the differences in markup between them.  This utility was born out of sheer frustration.  I've been needing this utility for months.  I've always accomplished my ...

I'm very excited today to announce a new open source project, PowerTools for Open XML.  Processing Open XML documents server-side using PowerShell is a powerful approach for creating, modifying, and transforming Open XML documents.  The PowerTools for Open XML are examples and guidance that show how to do this.  They consist of ...

Today, Microsoft announced support for more document format standards, including ODF, PDF, and XPS. Doug Mahugh has a post that includes a screen clipping from Office 2007 SP2, showing the support for ODF, PDF, and XPS. Gray Knowlton adds a lot of detail regarding Microsoft's future participation in the technical committees of ...