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vetinari on July 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft's Calibri font is at the center of a pol...

> Open XML formats (.docx, etc) came with Office 2003.

They came with Office 2007. For Office 2003, there was a plugin that allowed to open the XML files, in a limited way.

davidgerard on July 12, 2017 [–]

No, there was a separate XML format for 2003 before OOXML, called WordprocessingML. Basically nothing else ever used it, but later MS Office and LibreOffice still read it.

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