RE: Why not Word97?

Subject: RE: Why not Word97?
From: "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:18:51 -0000



>
> I'm wondering if you have the file format spec? There was a time (up
> until '95, iirc) that MS provided the spec on request. But then they
> went dark. Are they back to providing it again?

The file format substantially changed when they moved from Word 95 to Word
97. The Word 6/95 binary file format was freely published, but the Word 97 &
later file format is only licensed to Government, "qualified customers" or
qualified ISVs.

See this article for more information

Information about how to extract Office file formats and schemas
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;840817

Regards
Jonathan West


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