FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Microsoft Office Word 97-2003 Binary File Format (. doc). The Microsoft Word Binary File format, with the . doc extension and referred to here as DOC, was the default format used for documents in Microsoft Word from Word 97 (released in 1997) through Microsoft Office 2003.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is a DOC File? DOC file extension refers to a word processing document format. This binary file format is proprietary of Microsoft and is native to Microsoft’s most popular word processing application, Microsoft Word. It’s a plain text document format which can also contain hyperlinks, images, alignments, etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -DOC is the default format used with Office 97-2003. DOC is a Microsoft proprietary Binary Interchange File Format. Microsoft Word 97-2003 uses DOC as the default file format when creating a new document. Support for loading and saving DOCX files can be added using an add-in.

Detailed explanation-4: -The DOC file format was the only file format for Microsoft Office until the company launched its 2003 version of MS Word. The DOCX format was introduced with the launch of the MS Word 2007 and is still the file format up to now. The X in DOCX stands for XML standard.