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I’ve talked a lot about the value of “Custom Schema” support in Office. Anytime I give talks on the file formats, I make sure to spend some time also talking about the support for custom schema.Office 2010 key is for you now! I don’t think I’ve really given the basic intro though on the difference between reference schemas and custom defined schemas in my blog, so if you haven’t seen one of my presentations you may not know what I’m talking about when I refer to custom defined schemas. Each Office application has different levels of support, and it’s good to start investigating the functionality… Office 2010 download is available now!

There are of course a infinite number of valuable uses for Office documents. Obviously the Office applications are more than just a better typewriter. If you look at Word for example, one of the big investments have really been around making better looking documents . We’ve done a ton of work this release for instance to allow you to add great looking content to your document easily.By using Office 2010 Professional, you can save your money and time.

Making a great looking document though is only one part of making a document valuable. I think it’s best to use a really simple example. Let’s take the following document:

Using the basic Word functionality, it’s pretty easy to format this document so that any human can easily look at it and understand the information that’s being conveyed. Many people like buy Office 2010 Home.It’s clear that this is a conference report that was made on July 17th. You can quickly find out what the summary was as well as who attended the conference. This information can all be saved out as XML thanks to the reference schemas. In Word, we defined an XML schema called WordprocessingML that fully represents all of that formatting and layout information as XML.Office Professional 2010 is great!

The reference schemas are used for conveying all the application specific information:

Microsoft Office is so great!So the information that says “John Doe” is bold text and “Health Agency” is italic text can be represented as XML thanks to the reference schemas:

<w:p>
    <w:r>
        <w:rPr><w:b /></w:rPr>
        <w:t>John Doe</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r>
        <w:rPr><w:i /></w:rPr>
        <w:t>Health Agency</w:t>
    </w:r>
</w:p>

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