

WPD files produced in Corel WordPerfect, the company that has developed the format since 1996, can store embedded objects such as tables, graphs, and images produced in other applications. WPD documents tend to contain formatted text primarily. WordPerfect has been acquired twice - first by Novell in 1994 and then by Corel in 1996, who continues developing the product and the WPD file format to this day. WordPerfect was the top-selling word processing software during the 1980s and early 1990s and remained a big fan club to this day (so much so that it was still the second most popular office suite up to a couple of years ago). The DOS and Macintosh versions of WordPerfect were stopped in 1997, but the Windows version is still under active development by current owners, Corel. It is a historically popular word processing file format, which most versions of Microsoft Word can also open.

WPD is a text document file format created by Satellite Systems International for their WordPerfect word processing software in 1980. DOC files are easy to share and print, and can be opened by most word processing programs, including LibreOffice, Apple Pages, and Google Docs, as well as by Microsoft Word.Application/wordperf, application/wordperfect, application/wpd A basic free ‘Word for the web’ program is also available online for Microsoft account holders. Microsoft Office was designed for the Windows operating system, but you can also install Office apps on other operating systems like Apple’s macOS and Google’s ChromeOS. Word is part of Microsoft Office, which is available as a paid software application or accessed online with a Microsoft 365 subscription. They can include pictures, charts, and graphs, as well as plain or formatted text, and can also contain an editable template. DOC and DOCX are used for formatted text documents like reports, letters or resumes.

Since 2007, Word has used DOCX as standard, although you can still open DOC files and can still save to the older format. DOC was primarily used by Microsoft for its Word program until 2003. DOC and DOCX are the most common word processing file formats.
