How do customers use the Microsoft Office Tool for XBRL Prototype to create and consume XBRL documents?
The Microsoft Office Tool for XBRL Prototype is a working example of how to create and consume XBRL documents. However, it is solely intended as a demonstration of how customers could use the Microsoft Office System to work with XBRL. Customers that want to use XBRL in the business reporting process can benefit from having a wide range of choices of XBRL solutions. That benefit is increased if many of those options are based on, and work with, familiar tools such as the Microsoft Office System. As a result, Microsoft is pleased to work with partners such as those mentioned above that have decided to create Microsoft Office-based XBRL solutions. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.