Macros are mini-programs typically used to automate repetitive or time-consuming tasks in spreadsheet and word processing software, such as calculating sales commissions and formatting documents, among other uses.
Still, the company is pressed to keep pace with rival innovations. Because the tool had been able to index privacy-sensitive documents - against users' wishes - the final product avoids indexing those Word and Excel files that are password...
On Thursday, the Open XML Translator project intends to release a prototype of software that will change Word documents to OpenDocument, and vice versa. The goal is to have a Word plug-in for Office 2007 by the end of this year and translators for...
Microsoft later this month plans to release a converter that will let Word users open documents saved in the OpenDocument format. By the end of the year, the open source project building the converters will move past simply opening documents and...
Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word-processor documents in two different formats. Once installed, a person can open and save documents in the ODF...
Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to tests run by a document standards...