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The '''Office Open XML file formats''' are a set of [[file format]]s that can be used to represent electronic [[Office suite|office]] documents. There are formats for [[word processing]] documents, [[spreadsheets]] and [[presentations]] as well as specific formats for material such as mathematical formulae, graphics, bibliographies etc.

The formats were developed by [[Microsoft]] and first appeared in the [[Microsoft Office 2007]] suite. They were standardisedstandardized between December 2006 and November 2008, first by the Ecma International consortium, where they became ECMA-376, and subsequently, after ana [[Standardization of Office Open XML|contentious standardization process]], by the ISO/IEC's Joint Technical Committee 1, where they became ISO/IEC 29500:2008.

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