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Although the latest version of Microsoft Word can still open them, they are no longer developed. Legacy filename extensions include:.doc – Legacy Word document; Microsoft Office refers to them as "Microsoft Word 97–2003 Document".dot – Legacy Word templates; officially designated "Microsoft Word 97–2003 Template"
Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft.It was first released on October 25, 1983, [11] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. [12] [13] [14] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989 ...
For example, the word processing application Microsoft Word uses different file extensions for documents and templates: In Word 2003 the file extension .dot is used to indicate a template, in contrast to .doc for a standard document. In Word 2007 and later versions, it's .dotx, instead of .docx for documents.
Microsoft Office 2003 (codenamed Office 11 [9]) is an office suite developed and distributed by Microsoft for its Windows operating system. Office 2003 was released to manufacturing on August 19, 2003, [1] and was later released to retail on October 21, 2003. [10] The Mac OS X equivalent, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac was released on May 11, 2004.
Every version of Microsoft Word from 97 to 2016 (Windows) or 2004 to 2011 (Mac) contain functions to create filler text. On older versions, typing =rand() in a Word document and hitting "Enter" results in 3 paragraphs of 5 repetitions of the pangram " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ".
Word for Windows 1.0 was followed by Word 2.0 in 1991 and Word 6.0 in 1993. Then it was renamed to Word 95 and Word 97, Word 2000 and Word for Office XP (to follow Windows commercial names). With the release of Word 2003, the numbering was again year-based.
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In order to allow users of Word 6.0 and Word 95 to be able to open and read documents created in the newer (97–2003) format, Microsoft released the downloadable Word 97 Import Converter. [6] [7] In Microsoft Word 2007 and later, the binary file format was replaced as the default format by the Office Open XML (.docx) format, though Microsoft ...