Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a popular word processor program which has existed in a number of versions for DOS, Windows, and the Macintosh. It is often distributed as part of the Microsoft Office suite. Various native file formats have been used, and some other non-Word-specific formats can also be opened and saved.

There are separate articles on these formats:


 * DOC (Word document)
 * DOCM (Word macro-enabled document)
 * DOCX (Word document, XML format)
 * DOT (Word template)
 * DOTM (Word macro-enabled template)
 * DOTX (Word template, XML format)
 * Microsoft Word for Macintosh
 * Word for DOS screen capture
 * WordProcessingML (XML format preceding later DOCX one)

Sample files

 * The same test document saved in various formats available to the "Save As" feature in Word 2007 (some formats not Word-specific):
 * testing.doc (DOC)
 * testing.docm (DOCM)
 * testing.docx (DOCX)
 * testing.dot (DOT)
 * testing.dotm (DOTM)
 * testing.dotx (DOTX)
 * testing.mht (MHTML)
 * testing.odt (OpenDocument Text)
 * testing.pdf (PDF)
 * testing.rtf (RTF)
 * testing.xml (WordProcessingML 2006)
 * testing.xps (OpenXPS)
 * testing-2003.xml (WordProcessingML 2003)
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/document/wordDoc/
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/document/docx/

Software and Program Code

 * Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code
 * Writage: Markdown plugin for Microsoft Word

Links

 * Microsoft Word
 * File formats supported in Office 2010
 * LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats
 * Opening a file is blocked by your registry policy setting or File Block settings in Word
 * Control Words Introduced by Other Microsoft Products

Commentary

 * Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)
 * Why Microsoft Word must Die
 * Why Mac Word 6.0 was crappy, from a developer
 * How to Ditch Word
 * Escape from Microsoft Word
 * You're using Microsoft Word wrong (aimed at lawyers)