Open DOTX file

Microsoft Word XML document template

What is dotx file? Understanding and opening dotx files

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Microsoft Word XML document template

A dotx file extension is used for a main open XML document template format of Microsoft Word. Templates are generally used to save predefined look and settings of documents for quick creation of documents that have same look. DOTX format is a successor to previously used DOT format. Some other word processors are also able to open dotx files, however they wont probably use most of the Microsoft Word specific formatting.

Further details

The dotx file extension is associated with Microsoft Word, a popular authoring text/document editor.

Microsoft Word is a part of Microsoft Office suite. It gives you the ability to create and share documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with the easy-to-use Microsoft Office user interface.

The dotx files are used in Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 (or future versions) for document template files.

The dotx templates are used, when users wants to create several  dotx documents with same formatting.

They serve the same purpose as the older dot Word template files, 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.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template

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