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by severak_cz 1574 days ago
> On this definition, Word and Excel are just (zipped) plain text files.

but this is true only for newer versions. In older versions it was binary salad derived from C's data model.

And even in new versions these are far from files you can safely edit by hand.

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doc and xls files have nothing to do with "C's data model".