Office document formats
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- Microsoft Office formats between 97 and 2003
- has varied names - Composite Document file, Structured Storage, Compound File Binary Format (CFBF) or Compound Document File Format, and OLE2 seems related?
- resembles a FAT filesystem internally
- file extensions: .doc for word processing, .xls, more
- MIME: application/msword, application/vnd.ms-excel (verify)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format
- has varied names - Composite Document file, Structured Storage, Compound File Binary Format (CFBF) or Compound Document File Format, and OLE2 seems related?
- Office Open XML since ~2007
- file extensions: .docx for word processing, xlsx for spreadsheets, pptx for presentations, more
- MIME: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document for .docx
- ECMA-376, ISO 29500:2008 ?
- file extensions: .sxw for word processing, sxc for spreadsheets, sxi for presentations, more
- similar to Office Open XML but not compatible (there's a history there(verify))
- ISO 26300:2006
- Used by: OpenOffice.org (since 2.0), StarOffice
- OpenDocument (ODF)
- a.k.a. OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications?
- at lower level is a zip with XML files
- file extensions: .odt for word processing, .ods for spreadsheets, .odp presentations, more
- MIME: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
- Used by: LibreOffice