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Document Interop Initiative

Office 2007-2010 Additional Information

The documents listed below contain additional information related to the implementation of ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats [ECMA-376] in Excel® 2007-2010, PowerPoint® 2007-2010, and Word 2007-2010.  This information is provided in addition to notes on specific elements of ECMA-376 in case it may be of interest to other implementers or users to facilitate interoperability between implementations. 

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Description

Word

This document contains additional information related to Word’s implementation of ECMA-376.

Excel

This document contains additional information related to Excel’s implementation of ECMA-376.

PowerPoint

This document contains additional information related to PowerPoint’s implementation of ECMA-376.

Shared

This document contains additional information related to Office’s implemention of ECMA-376.

Office Well Defined Custom XML Parts

This document contains additional information describing how Office reads and writes a set of well-defined Custom XML Parts.  Custom XML Parts, in general, are described in "[ECMA-376] Part 1 §15.2.4; Custom XML Data Storage Part" and "[ECMA-376] Part 4 §7.5; Custom XML Data Properties". In addition to implementing the relevant portions of ECMA-376, Office understands a predefined set of schemas when applied to Custom XML Parts.

Office ActiveX Supplemental Information

This document specifies additional semantics written into the Embedded Control Persistence Part (“[ECMA-376] Part 1 §15.2.8; Embedded Control Persistent Part”) used to implement ActiveX controls in a Word document.

Office Digital Signatures

This document contains additional information related to Office’s implementation of Office Digital Signatures.

Equation XML

This document contains additional information related to Office’s implementation of Equation XML.

Simple Types

This document contains additional information describing XML simple types that are used by Office to read and write Office Open XML files.