MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD 97-2007
BINARY FILE FORMAT SPECIFICATION
[*.doc]
Includes Binary File Format Documentation
Relevant To:
Microsoft Office Word 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2003
Microsoft Office Word 2002
Microsoft Office Word 2000
Microsoft Office Word 1997
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Microsoft Office Word 97-2007
Binary File Format (.doc) Specification
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ....................................................................................................... 4
Note ......................................................................................................................... 8
Additions to Word 2007............................................................................................... 8
Word and .Doc Files .................................................................................................... 8
Definitions ............................................................................................................... 10
Naming Conventions ................................................................................................. 20
Format of the Summary Info Stream in a Word File ...................................................... 21
Format of the Main Stream in a Word Non-Complex File ................................................ 21
Format of the Main Stream in a Complex File ............................................................... 22
Format of the Table Stream ....................................................................................... 22
Format of the Data Stream ........................................................................................ 27
Format of the Custom XML Storage (Added in Word 2007) ............................................ 28
FIB ......................................................................................................................... 28
Text ....................................................................................................................... 29
Character and Paragraph Formatting Properties ........................................................... 32
Bin Tables ............................................................................................................... 34
Style Sheet ............................................................................................................. 34
STSHI ....................................................................................................... 36
Introduced in Word 2003: ........................................................................... 37
STD .......................................................................................................... 38
List Tables ............................................................................................................... 47
LST Records and the rglst .............................................................................. 47
List Names and the sttbListNames ................................................................... 48
LFO Records and the pllfo .............................................................................. 48
Paragraph List Formatting .............................................................................. 48
SPRM Definitions ...................................................................................................... 49
Paragraph SPRMs .......................................................................................... 50
Character SPRMs .......................................................................................... 56
Picture SPRMs .............................................................................................. 62
Section SPRMs .............................................................................................. 63
Table sprms ................................................................................................. 66
Complex SPRMs ............................................................................................ 72
Complex Paragraph SPRMs .......................................................................... 72
Complex Character SPRMs ........................................................................... 75
Complex Picture SPRMs ............................................................................... 78
Complex Section SPRMs .............................................................................. 78
