DOC (Documento Binario Microsoft Word)
DOC e o formato binario legado do Microsoft Word utilizado desde o Word 97 ate ao Word 2003. Embora amplamente compativel, foi substituido pelo DOCX para melhor interoperabilidade e tamanhos de ficheiro menores.
Tipo MIME
application/msword
Tipo
Binário
Compressão
Sem perdas
Vantagens
- + Universal compatibility with older Microsoft Office installations
- + Well-understood format with decades of tooling support
- + Supports macros, OLE objects, and VBA code
Desvantagens
- − Proprietary binary format is hard to parse without specialized libraries
- − Larger file sizes compared to ZIP-compressed DOCX
- − Macro-enabled DOC files are a common malware vector
Quando usar .DOC
Use DOC apenas quando precisar de compatibilidade com software antigo. Para todos os outros fins, o DOCX e recomendado.
Detalhes técnicos
O DOC utiliza o formato binario OLE2 Compound Document da Microsoft com armazenamento de ficheiros estruturado. Armazena texto, formatacao e objetos incorporados num unico ficheiro binario com limitacoes de tamanho de 512 MB.
Histórico
A Microsoft introduziu o formato binario DOC com o Word para Windows em 1983. Evoluiu significativamente com o Word 97, que introduziu o formato compound document que permaneceu ate ao Word 2003.
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