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Sembiance: Added sample files and moved section

2023-12-28T15:18:58Z

Added sample files and moved section

Jsummers: /* Other links */ Updating Forensics Wiki links

2023-09-04T14:50:15Z

‎Other links: Updating Forensics Wiki links

Thorsted: ForensicsWiki URL update

2022-01-06T17:29:37Z

ForensicsWiki URL update

Thorsted: /* Other format descriptions */

2022-01-05T00:19:24Z

‎Other format descriptions

Jsummers at 17:23, 16 February 2020

2020-02-16T17:23:37Z

Dan Tobias: Add info from LoC document

2020-01-16T04:17:49Z

Add info from LoC document

Dan Tobias: /* Sample files */

2018-11-10T01:43:53Z

‎Sample files

Dan Tobias at 23:34, 23 April 2018

2018-04-23T23:34:17Z

Jsummers at 19:55, 23 November 2016

2016-11-23T19:55:34Z

VolodyA! V Anarhist: /* File Types */

2015-04-30T17:04:28Z

‎File Types

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 == What's up, DOC? ==
 But just because the file you stumbled onto has a DOC extension doesn't mean it is necessarily actually an MS Word file, though if it's not that old it probably is. Older files, like from the 1980s or 1990s, might be something else entirely. Several other word processors in that era used .DOC file extensions, even though their format was nothing like MS Word's. Also, it was fairly common for people to save plain text files with that extension when they were DOCumenting something, like the instructions for a program that was packed up in an [[ARC (compression format)|ARC]] or [[ZIP]] file for download on a bulletin board system (BBS). But you might still try opening them with Word (as will normally happen in Windows if you have Word installed and double-click on a DOC file), since it will open plain-text files all right (even ancient ones).
 == Opening Word for DOS files in a modern Microsoft Word ==
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 * [http://textract.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Textract: extract text from various document formats including DOC]
 * [http://download.microsoft.com/download/word97win/Wd55_be/97/WIN98/EN-US/Wd55_ben.exe Word for DOS 5.5]
 == Commentary ==

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 == Other links ==
-* [https://forensicswiki.xyz/wiki/index.php?title=Word_Document_(DOC) Forensics Wiki article]
+* [{{ForensicsWikiURL|word_document_%28doc%29}} Forensics Wiki article]
 * [http://decalage.info/file_formats_security/office MS Office 97-2003 legacy/binary formats security] - article with lots of resources on MS Office formats, including analysis techniques, tools and parsing libraries
 * [http://blog.rootshell.be/2015/01/08/searching-for-microsoft-office-files-containing-macro/ Searching for Microsoft Office files containg macros]

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 == Other links ==
-* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Word_Document_%28DOC%29 Forensics Wiki article]
+* [https://forensicswiki.xyz/wiki/index.php?title=Word_Document_(DOC) Forensics Wiki article]
 * [http://decalage.info/file_formats_security/office MS Office 97-2003 legacy/binary formats security] - article with lots of resources on MS Office formats, including analysis techniques, tools and parsing libraries
 * [http://blog.rootshell.be/2015/01/08/searching-for-microsoft-office-files-containing-macro/ Searching for Microsoft Office files containg macros]

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 == Other format descriptions ==
-* [http://msxnet.org/word2rtf/formats/dosword5 Word 5.0 (for DOS) file format, with notes on earlier versions]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160404194249/http://msxnet.org/word2rtf/formats/dosword5 Word 5.0 (for DOS) file format, with notes on earlier versions]
-* [http://msxnet.org/word2rtf/formats/ffh-dosword5 Another site with notes on Word for DOS file format]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160404192303/http://msxnet.org/word2rtf/formats/ffh-dosword5 Another site with notes on Word for DOS file format]
 == Software and Program Code ==

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 == What's up, DOC? ==
-But just because the file you stumbled onto has a DOC extension doesn't mean it is necessarily actually an MS Word file, though if it's not that old it probably is. Older files, like from the 1980s or 1990s, might be something else entirely. Several other word processors in that era used .DOC file extensions, even though their format was nothing like MS Word's. Also, it was fairly common for people to save plain text files with that extension when they were DOCumenting something, like the instructions for a program that was packed up in an [[ARC]] or [[ZIP]] file for download on a bulletin board system (BBS). But you might still try opening them with Word (as will normally happen in Windows if you have Word installed and double-click on a DOC file), since it will open plain-text files all right (even ancient ones).
+But just because the file you stumbled onto has a DOC extension doesn't mean it is necessarily actually an MS Word file, though if it's not that old it probably is. Older files, like from the 1980s or 1990s, might be something else entirely. Several other word processors in that era used .DOC file extensions, even though their format was nothing like MS Word's. Also, it was fairly common for people to save plain text files with that extension when they were DOCumenting something, like the instructions for a program that was packed up in an [[ARC (compression format)|ARC]] or [[ZIP]] file for download on a bulletin board system (BBS). But you might still try opening them with Word (as will normally happen in Windows if you have Word installed and double-click on a DOC file), since it will open plain-text files all right (even ancient ones).
 == Sample files ==

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 |mimetypes=
 {{mimetype|application/msword}}, {{mimetype|application/vnd.ms-word}}, others have been used
 }}
 '''MS Word Doc''' format is a family of formats used by older versions of [[Microsoft Word|MS Word]] (they now use [[DOCX]] as a default as of [[Microsoft Office|Office]] 2007).
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 * [http://support2.microsoft.com/?kbid=922850 Error message in Office when a file is blocked by registry policy settings]
 * [http://fridrich.blogspot.com/2013/06/libreoffice-import-filter-for-legacy.html LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats]
 [[Category:Microsoft]]
 [[Category:Microsoft Compound File]]

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 * [http://people.freedesktop.org/~fridrich/blogs/Business_Letter Mac Word 5.1]
-* [http://www.dan.info/sampledata/msword/testing.doc Windows Word 2007, saving in Word 2003 format]
+* [https://www.dan.info/sampledata/msword/testing.doc Windows Word 2007, saving in Word 2003 format]
 * [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/droid-list/v4CHVddELaM/uaPukLXBGD0J Sample DOC and DOT (template) files from Word 97-2003, with discussion on distinguishing them]
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20020313074855/http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Internet-documents/isoc/charts/presentations/ Directory contains 2 Word 6.0 documents]

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 {{FormatInfo
 |subcat=Document
-|subcat2=Microsoft Word
+|subcat2=Word Processor
 |extensions={{ext|doc}}
 |mimetypes=

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	There is also the closely-related [[DOT]] format used for Word templates.		There is also the closely-related [[DOT]] format used for Word templates.
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		+	Wordpad, the program that comes with current versions of Windows, saves in Word 6 format.

	== What's up, DOC? ==		== What's up, DOC? ==