This opens the Options dialog box as shown in Figure 3 - within this dialog box, select theĮditor tab (highlighted in red within Figure 3).From the resultant drop-down menu, select Options. Within this window, click the Tools option (highlighted in red withinįigure 1). This opens the 7-Zip File Manager window, as shown inįigure 2. Launch 7-Zip File Manager from the Start menu.
Once both the programs are installed on your computer, follow these steps: Even if you downloaded the entire Visual Studio 2010 Express package, youĬan opt to install just the Visual Basic part, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 1, below.įigure 1: Visual Basic 2010 Express is all you need Do sign upįor a free visual Studiodev Essentials account to access the download. You will be required to sign with your Microsoft Account. Visual Basic 2010 Express rather than the entire Visual Studio 2010 Express Julie Terberg - this book is a great resource for anyone whoīefore you start, you must have these two programs installed: This technique of using 7-Zip and Visual Studio Express was discovered byĮcho Swinford - thank you so much, Echo. Visual Studio Express - both of these products are There is a third, more effective way of achieving the same results using While the former process is time consuming and error prone, the latter process requires that you buy a copy of Visual Studio 2010 – a product that is expensive and no longer available! Unfortunately, the process of editing Office XML files does not work as well in later versions of Visual Studio. If you want to edit Office XML files, you will therefore need to The wrapper technology used is just simple ZIP technology.
That's because these new file formats that end with an “X” are essentially XML based file formats.Įven more interesting is the fact that the actual file is not an XML based file but only a wrapper that contain many disparate and related XML based elements. A PPTX file or any of the new file formats that Office 2007 and later use such as POTX or THMX are different than the older binary fileįormats such as PPT.