Microsoft Word
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Revision as of 21:06, 19 September 2015
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)
- 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)
Software and Program Code
Commentary
- Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)
- Why Microsoft Word must Die
- LibreOffice import filter for legacy Mac file-formats
- Why Mac Word 6.0 was crappy, from a developer
- How to Ditch Word
- Escape from Microsoft Word
- File formats supported in Office 2010
- Opening a file is blocked by your registry policy setting or File Block settings in Word
