Files with .doc extension. How to open it?

The DOC file belongs without a doubt to the most popular text editor - Microsoft Word. This program is a required component of every version of Office. Microsoft Office package. DOC files are an incredibly cool format that can contain all the information about text formatting: fonts and their style, indents and paragraphs of text, alignment, columns, lists, etc.

DOC files are not without the ability to include images, tables and diagrams, and scripts. Also, among other things, a document with a .doc extension necessarily contains the text itself and printing parameters.

However, this format can be called outdated. Indeed, since the relatively recent year 2007, Microsoft, together with Microsoft Word 2007 presented in the same year, introduced a new designation for this format - . DOCX.

But a similar format with the same name still exists and is used - .doc. However, it is applicable for working with the program that is included by default in the Windows 7 operating system - Microsoft WordPad. This format is very similar in characteristics, only a large number of them, which are present in .DOCX, are absent in this format. But due to the fact that the format is less cumbersome, it can be easily worked with text editors from completely third-party developers.

How to open a .doc file extension

Naturally, the best option would be Microsoft Word, preferably the latest versions. The following programs also work successfully with these documents:

- Microsoft Word Viewer;
- Microsoft Works;
- File Viewer Lite;
- Corel WordPerfect Office X7;
- Kingsoft Writer;
- LibreOffice;
- Apache OpenOffice;
- Microsoft WordPad;

The lion's share of the test editors presented are free and can easily handle opening a DOC file in the correct form. And also many of the text editors are multi-platform, which makes it easy to use both on operating systems of the Windows family and on any others, even on Android, Windows Phone and IOS. As we can see, there is nothing tricky about this format. It is very popular and can be opened by many programs. We wish you good luck working with DOC files!