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Problem

XBRL is a very powerful analytical tool. To demonstrate just how powerful XBRL is for analyzing corporate reports, and how its use greatly enhances the corporate-reporting supply chain, PricewaterhouseCoopers collaborated with NASDAQ and Microsoft .This demonstration allows a user - an investor, a creditor, a regulator or a financial analyst - to select company reports/information from some 20 semiconductor companies, then acquire the selected reports/information in a matter of seconds. Gone is surfing from site to site to collect the company reports, the manual entry of selected information into analytical applications, the flipping back and forth to review key company disclosures, the time wasted checking numbers, etc. This demonstration illustrates how the corporate-reporting supply chain can be transformed for the benefit of investors and other consumers of company information. Describe the Microsoft Office Tool for the XBRLTMPrototype.