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* [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074 How to open new file formats in earlier versions of Microsoft Office]
 
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* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Word_Document_%28DOCX%29 Forensics Wiki article]
 
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Revision as of 02:20, 4 February 2014

File Format
Name DOCX
Ontology
Extension(s) .docx
MIME Type(s) application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

Office Open XML (OOXML) representation (.DOCX) is the default file format for documents created by Microsoft Word as of Word 2007. The format is based on XML component files in a container based on the ZIP format. It replaced the binary DOC format used in earlier Word versions.

History

This (along with the other Office Open XML document types PPTX and XLSX) was initially standardized as ECMA-376 in 2006. Three versions of ECMA-376 have been produced; the second version corresponds to ISO/IEC 29500:2008, approved as an ISO/IEC standard in April 2008. Changes to the standard between 2008 and 2012 were primarily corrections based on individual defects reported as implementation of the standard proceeded and required to ensure functional interoperability with existing applications. They do not introduce new functionality.

Format

Like the other "Open XML" formats, this file format actually consists of various files (mostly XML) compressed into a ZIP archive, with this fact obscured from the end user by the use of a different file extension.

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