Office document formats

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• MS Word between 97 through 2003 (and most formats from Microsoft Office 97-2003)

has varied names - Composite Document file, Structured Storage, Compound File Binary Format (CFBF) or Compound Document File Format, and OLE2 seems related?

file extensions: .doc for word processing, .xls

MIME: application/msword, application/vnd.ms-excel ?

which resembles a FAT filesystem internally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format

• Office Open XML, around 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 ?

• OpenOffice.org XML

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

• Microsoft Office XML formats

• OpenDocument (ODF)

a.k.a. OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications?

Basically 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