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Re: Files

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On 10/25/2014 03:34 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Carter Temm wrote:

<snip>

>> I am talking about convert Microsoft Word files to plane text,
> 
> (_plain_)
> 
> You need to specify “Microsoft Word files” as well.  There is the binary, 
> fully proprietary format that is backwards-compatible to Microsoft Word for 
> Windows 6.0 (filename suffix .doc or DOC), and there is the somewhat 
> standardized format of Word XML (part of Office Open XML, ECMA-376), which 
> are basically zipped XML documents, that is used by Microsoft Word 2003 and 
> later (filename suffix .docx or .DOCX).

.doc was the file format used in MS Word 97-2003, and .docx appeared as
of Word 2007. But one could open .docx files in earlier versions of Word
using the "Microsoft Compatibility Pack".

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Office_filename_extensions>


-- 
Joao Rodrigues

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Files Carter Temm <crtbraille@gmail.com> - 2014-10-25 06:54 -0700
  Re: Files "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-10-25 17:14 +0200
  Re: Files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-25 19:34 +0200
    Re: Files Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-26 11:44 -0200
      Re: Files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-26 15:20 +0100
        Re: Files Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-10-27 15:22 -0200
          Re: Files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-27 21:54 +0100
            Re: Files Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-10-28 11:15 -0200

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