Microsoft Word

File Format
Name	Microsoft Word
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document Microsoft Word
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)