Microsoft Word

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* [[DOTX]] (Word template, XML format)
 
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== Software and Program Code ==
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* [http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/microsoft-word-for-windows-1-1a-source-code/ Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code]
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== Commentary ==
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* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)]
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* [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html Why Microsoft Word must Die]
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* [http://fridrich.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/libreoffice-import-filter-for-legacy.html LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats]
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040630082459/http://weblogs.asp.net/Rick_Schaut/archive/2004/02/26/80193.aspx Why Mac Word 6.0 was crappy, from a developer]
  
 
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Revision as of 13:26, 18 April 2014

File Format
Name Microsoft Word
Ontology
Extension(s) .doc, .docm, .docx, .dot, .dotm, .dotx
MIME Type(s) application/msword, application/vnd.ms-word, others

Microsoft Word is a popular word processor program which has existed in a number of versions for DOS, Windows, and the Macintosh. 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)
  • WordProcessingML (XML format preceding later DOCX one)

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