Open XML is an open standard for word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that can be freely implemented by multiple applications on different platforms. Open XML is designed to faithfully represent existing word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that are encoded in binary formats defined by Microsoft Office applications. The reason for Open XML is simple: billions of documents now exist but, unfortunately, the information in those documents is tightly coupled with the programs that created them. The purpose of the Open XML standard is to de-couple documents created by Microsoft Office applications so that they can be manipulated by other applications independent of proprietary formats and without the loss of data.
The Open XML SDK 2.5 for Office simplifies the task of manipulating Open XML packages and the underlying Open XML schema elements within a package. The classes in the Open XML SDK 2.5 encapsulate many common tasks that developers perform on Open XML packages, so that you can perform complex operations with just a few lines of code.
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Office to programmatically read a large Excel file. For more information
about the basic structure of a **SpreadsheetML** document, see [Structure of a SpreadsheetML document (Open XML SDK)](structure-of-a-spreadsheetml-document.md).
