What is dotm file? Understanding and opening dotm files
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Microsoft Word Open XML macro-enabled document template
A dotm file extension is related to Microsoft Word 2007 and later. A dotm file stores Open XML macro-enabled document template.
Further details
The dotm 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 dotm files are used in Microsoft Word 2007 and higher for document template files.
The *.dotm templates are used, when users wants to create several *.docx documents with same formatting and with additional macros. Developers can pro grammatically determine if any macro-enabled code exists in a WordprocessingML document by inspecting the package file and can remove those parts, so that the code can cause no harm.
They serve the same purpose as the Word template files (*.dot), but use the new file extensions and file formats for Word documents based on Open XML data format. The dotm files use ZIP compression for smaller file sizes.
MIME types:
application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12
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