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Follow-up on today's MCT Summit presentation ... OOXML resources
Hi, everyone! Thanks to all of the MCTs who took the time to attend today's session! For those who wanted to but couldn't make it, the recording of the session will be made available wth your other summit resources.
Among those resources, as you may have already seen, is a list of links for this session - providing additional learning resources for the topics covered today. As promised, this post is to list those here as well along with a couple of other links promised during the session:
• Advanced Microsoft Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out (my book for Office 2007, which includes an Office Open XML primer and a VBA primer - both written for advanced users with no developer experience. Info for accessing free excerpts of both (which are on the MSDN Office Developer Center) is below.)
• Open XML I: Exploring the Office Open XML Formats
• Open XML II: Editing documents in the XML
• Using Office Open XML to Save Time Without Writing Code
• Using Office Open XML to Customize Document Formatting in the 2007 Office System
• A Guide to Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon (as mentioned during the session - there are some excess line breaks in the markup posted in that article currently. For correct markup samples and a sample document that you can download to use along with that article - click here.)
• Creating Document Themes with the Open XML File Formats
• Open XML Theme Builder beta (you can download this tool (created by folks on the Office team) from Microsoft Connect. On the Help menu of the tool after it's installed, you'll see two guides - the themes SDK document that I wrote and a theme creation guide from the product team. Both give you much more information about using the theme builder tool and about creating custom themes from scratch.)
For additional resources - including the book excerpts mentioned above and articles with accompanying video demos for learning more about how to use VBA for tasks like troubleshooting documents, see the articles page on this blog (which also repeats some of the resources above).
... and if you are registered for the MCT summit, don't forget to attend tomorrow's advanced sneak peek at Office 2010. As I mentioned during the session today, Tjeerd Veninga from MS Learning will be giving you a preview of the very cool, very latest in Microsoft Office. Lots of great new things to discover, so don't miss it! That's at 7pm GMT on Friday the 19th.
Meanwhile, happy Thursday everybody!
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