While working on document generation on server side, where Open XML SDK is the tool for a developer, I came across a scenario where the requirement was to generate Open XML based Excel Workbooks (XLSX), from older format of Excel Workbooks (XLS) files which contained a huge amount of data, like million rows in a [...]

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While working with PowerPoint 2007 today I noticed a strange behavior: If you have a Chart in an Excel workbook, and you want to insert this chart as link in a PowerPoint Slide by using Paste Special, it may fail to paste anything in the slide if the current view is Outline View. Also, even [...]

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