Editing Microsoft Word (section)

===XML Document (Word 2003)===
{{Main|Microsoft Office XML formats}}The .docx XML format introduced in Word 2003<ref>{{cite web|year=2004|title=What You Can Do with Word XML [Word 2003 XML Reference]|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa223584(office.11).aspx|publisher=MSDN|access-date=August 13, 2010|archive-date=August 21, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100821014000/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa223584(office.11).aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> was a simple, [[XML]]-based format called [[Microsoft Office XML formats#File formats|WordProcessingML or WordML.]]

The '''Microsoft Office XML formats''' are [[XML]]-based document formats (or [[XML schema]]s) introduced in versions of [[Microsoft Office]] prior to [[Office 2007]]. [[Microsoft Office XP]] introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and Office 2003 added an XML-based format for Word documents.

These formats were succeeded by [[Office Open XML]] (ECMA-376) in [[Microsoft Office 2007]].