Microsoft Compound File

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File Format
Name Microsoft Compound File
Ontology
PRONOM fmt/111

Microsoft Compound File is a complex container format used by some versions of Microsoft Office, and other Microsoft applications. It has features similar to those of a filesystem format.

It is also known as Compound File Binary File Format (CFBF or CFB), Microsoft Compound Document File Format, OLE Compound Document Format, OLE2 Compound Document Format, etc.

The format was not publicly documented by Microsoft until 2008.

Identification

Files begin with signature bytes D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1.

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