Microsoft Office File formats

See Also

• Tools:Document Metadata Extraction
• Media:Compdocfileformat.pdf Microsoft Compound Document File Format

External Links

Microsoft.com links

• Introducing the Office (2007) Open XML File Formats
• Microsoft Office Binary File Format Documents
• Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats
• Ecma Office Open XML File Formats overview
• Introduction to new file name extensions and Open XML Formats

Evaluations

• Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia article on Microsoft Word
• Wikipedia article on OLE