Introduction Document

This section provides an introduction document for the Office File Formats documentation set. The introduction document supplements the technical documents by describing context, conceptual background, and inter-protocol relationship and interaction information.

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[MS-OFFDI]: Microsoft Office File Format Documentation Introduction

Introduces the persistence formats that are primarily used by Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word. This document also identifies related documents and specifications that provide more information about each format and how each format is implemented in those Office applications.

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