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Microsoft Word 97 to 2003 document template file

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File extension DOT - Microsoft Word 97 to 2003 document template file

File type specification:

Document file type icon Document file type

Microsoft Office file type icon Microsoft Office file type

dot file icon: dot file icon

File extension DOT description:

The DOT file extension is associated with Microsoft Word, a powerful authoring program that gives you the ability to create and share documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with the easy-to-use Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, which is part of Microsoft Office.

The .dot files are used in Microsoft Word 97 to 2003 for document template files. The .dot templates are used, when users wants to create several .doc documents with same formatting.

The latest versions of Microsoft Office use the Open XML file format and the Word documents are stored in the .docx files or in the template .docm files.

MIME: application/msword, application/dot, application/x-dot, application/doc, application/microsoft_word, application/mswor2c, application/x-msword, zz-application/zz-winassoc-dot

The default software that works with dot file format:

Microsoft Word icon

Microsoft Corporation logo Microsoft Word

Company or developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Word 2010 is the latest version of the famous family of word processor that started with Word for MS-DOS in 1983. Currently Word is a core application of Microsoft Office suite. Microsoft Word offers powerful word processing and text editor features that allow users to easy create high quality documents.

Microsoft Office icon

Microsoft Corporation logo Microsoft Office

Company or developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Office is popular productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Office contains a set of applications and services used to work with documents (Microsoft Word), spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel), presentations (Microsoft Powerpoint), databases (Microsoft Access) etc.. Microsoft Office can be also used to manage e-mail accounts, tasks, calendars and contacts (Microsoft Outlook). Microsoft Office for Windows is distributed in six editions for Home, Academic and corporate sector.

Microsoft Office for Mac icon

Microsoft Corporation logo Microsoft Office for Mac

Company or developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Office for Mac is popular office suite that contains a set of applications and services used to work with documents (Microsoft Word), spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel), presentations (Microsoft Powerpoint) and manage e-mail accounts, tasks, calendars and contacts (Microsoft Outlook).

Microsoft Office Mobile icon

Microsoft Corporation logo Microsoft Office Mobile

Company or developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Office Mobile is mobile version of Microsoft Office for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone operating systems that is able to open and edit Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel documents, and view Microsoft Office PowerPoint documents.

Word Mobile icon

Microsoft Corporation logo Word Mobile

Company or developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Word Mobile helps you with creating and editing of your Microsoft Word documents directly on your Phone. Word Mobile (in previous versions of Office Mobile, known as Pocket word) is part of Microsoft Office Mobile, that is automatically loaded in Windows Phone 7 based smart phones and accessible in the Office hub.

Word Mobile does not fully support all features included in Microsoft Word 2010 for desktop computers. However you will be still able to open the documents on your found phone, but the unsupported content won't be visible.

Help how to open DOT files:

Use Microsoft Word to open .dot files.

How to convert file with extension DOT:

After you have opened .dot template in Word, you can save it to another supported file format (DOC by default).

List of software associated to the .dot file extension

Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, Mac OS X etc.) and possible program actions
that can be done with the file
: like open dot file, edit dot file, convert dot file, view dot file, play dot file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

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Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting of the dot files.

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  • Create dot file
  • Print dot file
  • Others dot file

Programs that open dot file - Microsoft Word 97 to 2003 document template file

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Microsoft Windows platform:

Main software associated with dot file by default:
Microsoft Word small icon Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office small icon Microsoft Office
Other suggested software:
Microsoft Works small icon Microsoft Works
TextMaker small icon TextMaker
AbiWord small icon AbiWord
Ability Write small icon Ability Write

Apple Mac OS X platform:

Linux/Unix platform:

Windows Mobile/CE platform:

Main software associated with dot file by default:
Microsoft Office Mobile small icon Microsoft Office Mobile
Word Mobile small icon Word Mobile

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