the Microsoft word files are called document
Templates (.dot) are identical to Word (.doc) files but all of the formatting in them applies to the current document. In Word, if you create a New file and use the default then it has the normal.dot file formats. Some templates have Visual Basic macros to help you fill out the document e.g. your company name in a fax template.
".odt" is for Open Document and ".doc" is for Word Document.
.doc or .docx
Prior to Microsoft Office 2007 the native file formats for word documents were .DOC, with the templates using .DOT. You can still save in these file formats with newer versions of Office, but you can lose some of the formatting used in a newer document that was not supported on legacy versions.
Doc file extension is short for document
.doc
.doc
* The file extension of a Word document is .doc * The file extension of an Excel speadsheet is .xls
A .doc file is a Microsoft Word document. Microsoft Word 2007 uses the .docx extension, but previous versions of Word use .doc.
*.doc or *.docx
.txt .doc .docx (Most common)