The WPD format and its associated .wpd filename extension is text document file format developed by Satellite Systems International. It was released as the native file format for the company's WordPerfect word processing application. The company and its digital assets were later acquired by Corel in 1996 who have maintained active development of the format and the software application. Though WordPerfect was initially cross platform with support for MS-DOS, Mac, and Windows, by 1997, there was only Microsoft Windows compatibility and support. The format, despite being a text document format, has support for formatted text, simple tables as well as drawn objects.
In an effort to create an open document standard, Microsoft in collaboration with ISO/IEC and Ecma, developed the Office Open XML standard in 2006. One of the filename extensions supported in this specification is the .docx extension, a text document filename extension. The .docx was introduced in Microsoft Office Word 2007 and has been supported ever since in later iterations. It has become the default filename extension for all text documents produced using Microsoft Office Word. Given the open source nature of the XML specification, more alternative document processing applications support read and write capabilities on documents saved with the .docx filename extension. This is in comparison to the .doc filename extension which is a proprietary asset owned by Microsoft.
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The WPD format supports several advanced text formatting features in addition to those mentioned in the description including support for graphs, mail merging, indexing, searching, as well as tables such as contents tables. The format is split in blocks with formatting information stored in tags found within one or more blocks in the format. Information embedding is also supported allowing a WPD document to include hyperlinks, templates, databases, and spreadsheets.
The .docx filename extension is specified in the open standard ISO/IEC 29500-1:2012. A free compatibility update allows older versions of Microsoft Office Word such as Office 2003 to open .docx documents.
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