Personal Experience Collaborative Experience Organizational Experience Home Product Family Sites Business Productivity Office XP Office XP Guide Organizational Experience 8 of 11 Organizational Experience Organizations of all shapes and sizes must be assured that the overall investment they make in their software is one that offers significant value and return to the organization and its users. With Office XP, this value is realized not only by significant deployment and management gains, but also by the software s improvements as an enterprise development platform. As organizations continue to move their business solutions to the Web, they have a greater need to make their Office applications part of their overall Web solution. Office XP provides a variety of tools that allow organizations to create and extend their solutions to the Web.
Users can load and save generic, well-formed, and spreadsheet XML directly into Excel.
Furthermore users can query XML spreadsheets from the Web and thereby analyze important Web data. Access users can easily import or export XML schema and data documents into and out of Access. Users can automatically import the XML tables or access advanced options to customize the import. Similarly, when users export XML data, schema, and presentations, they can leave the defaults as they are, or they can select advanced options for greater control over the exported output. In addition to the Smart Tags that will ship as part of Word and Excel, third parties can tie in to the Smart Tag technology to offer their own solutions for Office XP users.