{"history":[],"article":{"id":"47de0d01-c251-4564-bee9-e35d698b47e5","title":"Microsoft Office XML formats","slug":"microsoft-office-xml-formats","content":":::summary\n**Name:** WordProcessingML \n**Extension:** (XML document) \n**Noextcode:** yes \n**Owner:** [Microsoft](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft) \n**Genre:** [Document file format](https://bliptext.com/articles/document-file-format) \n**Extended From:** [XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/xml), [DOC](https://bliptext.com/articles/doc-computing) \n:::\n\n# \nThe **[Microsoft Office](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office) [XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/xml) formats** are [XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/xml)-based document formats (or [XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/xml) schemas) introduced in versions of [Microsoft Office](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office) prior to [Office 2007](https://bliptext.com/articles/office-2007).\n[Microsoft Office XP](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office-xp) introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and [Office 2003](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office-2003) added an XML-based format for Word documents.\nThese formats were succeeded by [Office Open XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/office-open-xml) (ECMA-376) in [Microsoft Office 2007](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office-2007).\n\n# File formats\n\n# Limitations and differences with Office Open XML\nBesides differences in the schema, there are several other differences between the earlier Office XML schema formats and Office Open XML.\n\n# Word XML format example\n\n# Excel XML spreadsheet example\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T09:25:09.045Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T09:25:09.045Z","search_vector":"'format':4 'microsoft':1 'offic':2 'xml':3","search_content":" \n**Name:** WordProcessingML \n**Extension:** (XML document) \n**Noextcode:** yes \n**Owner:** [Microsoft](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft) \n**Genre:** [Document file format](https://bliptext.com/articles/document-file-format) \n**Extended From:** [XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/xml), [DOC](https://bliptext.com/articles/doc-computing) \n \n\n# \nThe **[Microsoft Office](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office) [XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/xml) formats** are [XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/xml)-based document formats (or [XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/xml) schemas) introduced in versions of [Microsoft Office](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office) prior to [Office 2007](https://bliptext.com/articles/office-2007).\n[Microsoft Office XP](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office-xp) introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and [Office 2003](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office-2003) added an XML-based format for Word documents.\nThese formats were succeeded by [Office Open XML](https://bliptext.com/articles/office-open-xml) (ECMA-376) in [Microsoft Office 2007](https://bliptext.com/articles/microsoft-office-2007).\n\n# File formats\n\n# Limitations and differences with Office Open XML\nBesides differences in the schema, there are several other differences between the earlier Office XML schema formats and Office Open XML.\n\n# Word XML format example\n\n# Excel XML spreadsheet example\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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