However, it is also supported on Office 2004 with the help of a free conversion tool available from Microsoft.
The new Office Open XML format was built into the next version of Office for Mac (Office 2008). DOCX, but has the capability of saving and opening the old. Its proprietary DOC format is considered a de facto standard, although its successive Windows version (Word 2007) uses a new XML-based format called. Microsoft Word is a word processor which possesses a dominant market share in the word processor market.
