Microsoft released a plugin for Office 2007 and 2010, which should facilitate the work with chemical labels, formulas and images in the documents.

The plugin is called Chem4Word and it was developed with tight collaboration of Microsoft Research and three professors from the University of Cambridge. It is based on the technology of Chemical Markup Language (XML for chemistry), which allows easy creation of documents related to chemical structure and details.

More information can be found on the official blog, and Chem4Word is available for free download from Microsoft Education Lab. The source code of this plugin will be enabled under Apache license.

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