688 Microsoft Word Document 6.0/95 Word Processor None With the release of Word 6.0, Microsoft introduced a new native binary word processing format, based on its generic OLE2 Compound Document Format. The format is proprietary and Microsoft does not make details of its structure public. The information here is derived primarily from OpenOffice.org's reverse-engineered documentation of the format and should not therefore be regarded as definitive. A Word document is stored as a ‘WordDocument’ stream within a Compound Document Format file. The format remained unchanged with the release of Word 95. Binary Little-endian (Intel) 1 Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives 11 Mar 2005 This format can be identified via a container signature in DROID version 6 or later. The PRONOM database cannot currently represent container signatures. 19 Apr 2012 application/msword MIME com.microsoft.word.doc Apple Uniform Type Identifier fmt/39 PUID doc File extension 128 Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0/95 Compound document header + WordDocument user stream + version number 1 Absolute from BOF 0 D0CF11E0A1B11AE1{20}FEFF 1 Variable 57006F007200640044006F00630075006D0065006E007400{42}02(00|01) 1 Variable 4D6963726F736F667420576F726420(362E30|666F722057696E646F7773203935|362E302D446F6B756D656E74) Has priority over 767 OLE2 Compound Document Format Has priority over 1401 Microsoft Word (Generic) Is previous version of 690 Microsoft Word Document Is previous version of 1553 Microsoft Word Document (Password Protected) Is subsequent version of 734 Microsoft Word for Windows Document Is subtype of 767 OLE2 Compound Document Format