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Word and .Doc Files The binary format for Microsoft Word 97 and later versions is based on a structure referred to as a .doc file or compound file. Compound File Binary format is documented at http://microsoft.com/

Word 2007 introduces a new XML-based file format. While this new format is the default format or documents saved by Word 2007, Word 2007 also provides the capability to save files to the binary Word file format used in previous versions.

A Word .doc file consists of a:

Main stream
Summary information stream
Table stream
Data stream
Custom XML storage (Added in Word 2007)
0 or more object streams which contain private data for OLE 2.0 objects embedded within the Word document

Additions

Additions to the Word binary file format include the following:

- Addition of a new custom XML storage
- Addition of several new records to the Office Drawing Layer (Escher)



Word 2007 adds a new custom XML storage to the binary file format to store custom XML information for documents created in Word 2007. This release of the Word binary file format documentation includes information about the custom XML storage. The additions to this binary file format documentation are preceded with the note: Added in Word 2007. Word 2007 adds several new records to the binary file format to store information about documents created in Word 2007. Each of these records stores information about features specific to Word 2007. This data is preserved in the binary format so that when reopened in Word 2007, documents retain data and features that are only available in the newer version. Information on these new records to the Office Drawing Layer is documented in the Office Drawing Binary File Format documentation.

Relevant To: Microsoft Office Word 2007,Word 2003,Office Word 2002, 2000,1997 This specification is provided under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.