Format
Microsoft Word for Windows Document
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Word for Windows Document
- Version
- 1.0
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/msword
- Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.microsoft.word.doc
- PUID: fmt/37
- Format type
- Word Processor
- Disclosure
- None
- Description
- Word Document format is a word processing format developed by Microsoft. Word 1.0 format is the native file format of Microsoft Word 1.0 for Windows. It is proprietary and Microsoft does not make details of its structure public. A Word document file comprises a header section followed by a text section, which contains the document text in ANSI characters, followed by a format section, which contains formatting information about the text.
- Format encoding
- Binary
- File extensions
-
doc - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
Relationships
- Is previous version of
Internal signatures
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0
- Description
- Header
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
9BA5{16}00000000- Endianness
- Little-endian