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| - Information about ODT |
| Id |
| 27 |
| File extension |
| odt |
| File category |
| Document file |
| Stands for |
| OpenDocument Text |
| Developer |
| Sun Microsystems |
| Overview |
| Another name for ODT is Open document format for office applications i.e. ODF. It is a Zip compressed Extensible Markup Language (XML) based open format. It is a substitute for Microsoft’s office and used for creating spreadsheets, charts, presentation and other word processing documents. As it is an open software that is why there is no need to get a license, it is free of cost. A number of files and directories that have binary content can be compressed using ZIP's lossless compression and which in result lessens the size of the file. In opendocument, there is one advantage of the separation of concerns which means, there can be distinct sections that address information separately of varied type. It may include content, styles, metadata and application settings as well. |
| Technical description |
| Based on the Sun Microsystems specification for OpenOffice.org, it was created by a technical committee under the OASIS (Organization for the advancement of structured information standards) association. However, the original developer was StarOffice which intended to provide open software for office documents. It was also released under the ISO/IEC international standard ISO/IEC 26300:2006 standard. Furthermore, there are many extensions that are used in Opendocument. This includes .odt and .fodt for word processing documents, .ods and .fods for spreadsheets, .odp and .fodp for presentations, .odg and .fodg for graphics and finally .odf for formulae in mathematics. Besides this, this format is available both as free and proprietary software. AbiWord, Adobe Buzzword, Microsoft office-2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019, LibreOffice; etc are few examples of softwares that either fully or partially support this format. |
| Links |
| wikipedia.org |
| - Information about DOC |
| Id |
| 28 |
| File extension |
| doc |
| File category |
| Document file |
| Stands for |
| Document (Microsoft Word Binary File Format) |
| Developer |
| Microsoft |
| Overview |
| Doc extension is used for word processing documents which are prepared using Microsoft Word or any other processing program, for instance - OpenOffice Writer, IBM Lotus Symphony, AbiWord and Apple Pages. The file may include all sort of text, images, tables, graphs and charts; etc. A user can also edit the text using page formatting where one can insert hyperlinks, change the margin, choose the alignment, can use varied font size including style and also there are different options for print settings. In the recent versions, one can add audio, images, sounds and videos in the document file. This can be used to write various types of letters, resumes, essays and invitations; etc. These files are editable. |
| Technical description |
| Earlier the doc files just contained the formatted text but with the development, now these files may include numerous objects like charts, graphs, tables and all other media components. It can also have a mail merge information. This aforesaid feature is used for mass mailing in which a number of letters with the fixed or same text are sent to multiple or distinct people with a different mailing address. Few word processing templates can be used to put content from database, spreadsheet or table into the text documents. In the 1980s, this extension was used by WordPerfect for their proprietary format but later in 1983, Microsoft chose to use this extension for their Microsoft Word which is their product. The specifications are not publically available for this file, yet, some of them are available in ‘Microsoft Open Specification Promise' which was released on 15th February 2008. |
| Links |
| wikipedia.org |
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