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Repeating Content in Document Generation System that uses XPath Expressions in Content Controls

I recently received a very good request for an enhancement to this document generation system.  The request was for a “Repeat” control that works in a similar way to tables, but instead of putting child records into a table, the document generation system generates a repeating section of content. To review, here is what the [...]

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Join us for a live web-cast on DocumentBuilder 2.0 on September 7 at 8:00 AM PST

Announcing Live Web-Cast on DocumentBuilder 2.0 on Sept 7, 8:00 AM PST

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Fourth and Final Screen-Cast in Series on Adding/Updating the TOC in OpenXML WordprocessingML Documents

Screen-cast: shows how to update an OpenXML WordprocessingML table-of-contents using Word Automation Services.

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Links – August 17 2011

Links: inserting / updating the TOC in a WordprocessingML document, removing speaker notes from a PresentationML document, and a short and sweet intro to DocumentBuilder 2.0.

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Second Screen-Cast in Series on Adding / Updating Tables of Contents in Open XML WordprocessingML Documents

Second screen-cast in a series on adding / updating tables-of-contents in Open XML WordprocessingML documents. This screen-cast introduces some code in PowerTools for Open XML that makes it easy to insert a TOC into a document.

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New Screen-Cast Series on Tables of Contents in Open XML WordprocessingML Documents

Introduces the first video in a series of screen-casts on tables-of-contents in Open XML WordprocessingML documents. After generating documents, developers sometimes need to insert an updated TOC at the beginning of the document.

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Introducing a new class for PowerTools for Open XML: TextReplacer

Screen-cast that introduces a new class, TextReplacer, which replaces text in an Open XML WordprocessingML document.

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Introduction to DocumentBuilder 2.0–Screen-Cast 3 of 3

Third screen-cast in a 3-part series. In this screen-cast, I explain how DocumentBuilder 2.0 is data-driven, which makes it more reliable. In addition, I explain a number of aspects of the code so that you can understand how DocumentBuilder works.

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Introduction to DocumentBuilder 2.0–Screen-Cast 2 of 3

Second screen-cast in a 3-part series. In this screen-cast, I walk through merging documents that have comments where the comments have images in them.

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Screen-Cast Introduction to DocumentBuilder 2.0, and new DocumentBuilder Resource Center

Screen-cast shows how to build and run DocumentBuilder, and walks though one scenario of interrelated markup.

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