diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 26e10deab..2730545cc 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.8-beta2" date="2011-??-??">
+           <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">Implement the load method on MemoryPackagePart</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">50967 - Support for continued ExtSSTRecords</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">48968 - Support for HOUR, MINUTE and SECOND date formulas</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">Added NPOIFS constructors to most POIDocument classes and their extractors, and more widely deprecated the Document(DirectoryNode, POIFSFileSystem) constructor in favour of the more general Document(DirectoryNode) one</action>
diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/openxml4j/opc/internal/MemoryPackagePart.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/openxml4j/opc/internal/MemoryPackagePart.java
index 0d7f8d39c..f950e2ca3 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/openxml4j/opc/internal/MemoryPackagePart.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/openxml4j/opc/internal/MemoryPackagePart.java
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 package org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.internal;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage;
 import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.PackagePart;
 import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.PackagePartName;
 import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.internal.marshallers.ZipPartMarshaller;
+import org.apache.poi.util.IOUtils;
 
 /**
  * Memory version of a package part. Use to
@@ -111,7 +114,20 @@ public final class MemoryPackagePart extends PackagePart {
 
 	@Override
 	public boolean load(InputStream ios) throws InvalidFormatException {
-		throw new InvalidFormatException("Method not implemented");
+	   // Grab the data
+	   ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+	   try {
+	      IOUtils.copy(ios, baos);
+	   } catch(IOException e) {
+	      throw new InvalidFormatException(e.getMessage());
+	   }
+	   
+	   // Save it
+	   data = baos.toByteArray();
+	   length = data.length;
+	   
+	   // All done
+	   return true;
 	}
 
 	@Override