Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Nadav Har'El]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats":
> Undocumented? Which file format is that? All the .doc and .docx
> formats are documented, even the older binary formats.

Where is the ".doc" format documented?

I once wrote a tool to extract the text in MS Office files (for a search
engine). It was a really annoying reverse-engineering-like
trial-and-error process, and I could hardly find any documentation.
The PowerPoint format (.ppt) was particularly odd.

What documentation do you refer to?

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