Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Standards Support

This documentation provides detailed support information for the Open Document Format (ODF) and Open XML (ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC-29500) file formats implemented in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Audience

This documentation is intended for use in conjunction with publicly available standard specifications, computer language design, and implementation art. It assumes that the reader either is familiar with this material or has access to it.

The documentation provides the following levels of audience support:

Implementer: Information regarding the implementation by Microsoft of certain standards for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint to facilitate interoperability between those implementations and other relevant implementations of a given standard.
Reviewer: A resource for readers who want to evaluate or increase their understanding of how Microsoft is approaching its implementation of these standards in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Specification	Description
[MS-CUSTOMUI]: Custom UI XML Markup Specification	Specifies the Custom UI XML Markup specification, which contains information about how the 2007 Microsoft Office system implements UI customization in the context of ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats [ECMA-376]. Click here to view this version of the [MS-CUSTOMUI] PDF.
[MS-CUSTOMUI2]: Custom UI XML Markup Version 2 Specification	Specifies the Custom UI XML Markup, which is used to implement UI customization in the context of the standards for Microsoft Office Open XML file formats as specified in ISO/IEC-29500:2008. Click here to view this version of the [MS-CUSTOMUI2] PDF.
[MS-DOCX]: Word Extensions to the Office Open XML (.docx) File Format	Specifies the Word Extensions to the Office Open XML File Format, which includes elements and attributes that extend the XML vocabulary for representing word processing documents as presented in the ISO/IEC-29500 specification. Click here to view this version of the [MS-DOCX] PDF.
[MS-ODRAWXML]: Office Drawing Extensions to Office Open XML Structure	Specifies extensions to the DrawingML OOXML File Format Structure, which is used in WordprocessingML, SpreadsheetML and PresentationML documents. Click here to view this version of the [MS-ODRAWXML] PDF.
[MS-OE376]: Office Implementation Information for ECMA-376 Standards Support	Specifies information about how Microsoft Office implements ECMA-376 Office Open XML File Formats [ECMA-376], including areas where additional detail may be of benefit to other implementers and areas where the product is known to vary from or extend the specification. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OE376] PDF.
[MS-OFFMACRO]: Office Macro-Enabled File Format	Specifies the structures of macro-enabled WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, and PresentationML file formats that are either not present in or modified from non-macro-enabled WordProcessingML, SpreadsheetML, and PresentationML file formats. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OFFMACRO] PDF.
[MS-OFFMACRO2]: Office Macro-Enabled File Format Version 2	Specifies the structures of macro-enabled WordprocessingML, SpreadsheetML, and PresentationML file formats that are either not present in or modified from non-macro-enabled WordprocessingML, SpreadsheetML, and PresentationML file formats. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OFFMACRO2] PDF.
[MS-OI29500]: Office Implementation Information for ISO/IEC 29500 Standards Support	Specifies information about how Microsoft Office implements ISO/IEC-29500 Office Open XML File Formats [ISO/IEC-29500:2008], including areas where additional detail may be of benefit to other implementers and areas where the product is known to vary from or extend the specification. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OI29500] PDF.
[MS-OODF]: Office Implementation Information for ODF 1.1 Standards Support	Specifies implementation information about how Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and Microsoft Office Word 2007 implement Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.1. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OODF] PDF.
[MS-OODF2]: Office Implementation Information for ODF 1.1 Version 2 Standards Support	Specifies implementation information about how Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, and Microsoft Word 2010 implement Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.1. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OODF2] PDF.
[MS-OODF3]: Office Implementation Information for ODF 1.2 Standards Support	TBD Click here to view this version of the [MS-OODF3] PDF.
[MS-OWEXML]: Office Web Extensibility Extensions to Office Open XML Structure Specification	Specifies the Office Web Extensibility Extensions to Office Open XML File Format, which shows the elements and attributes that extend the XML vocabulary for representing Office Web Extensions. Click here to view this version of the [MS-OWEXML] PDF.
[MS-PPTX]: PowerPoint (.pptx) Extensions to the Office Open XML File Format	Specifies elements and attributes that extend the XML vocabulary for representing PresentationML documents described in ISO/IEC-29500 specification. Click here to view this version of the [MS-PPTX] PDF.
[MS-XLSX]: Excel (.xlsx) Extensions to the Office Open XML SpreadsheetML File Format	Specifies the Excel (.xlsx) Extensions to the Office Open XML SpreadsheetML File Format, which are extensions to the Office Open XML file formats as described in [ISO/IEC-29500-1]. The extensions are specified using conventions provided by the Office Open XML file formats as described in [ISO/IEC-29500-3]. Click here to view this version of the [MS-XLSX] PDF.