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Microsoft Word: Word is Microsoft's word processor, part of the office suite. It normally uses it own proprietary format, which changes with each version. Microsoft originally tried to keep this format secret, but by now it has been documented. RTF (Rich Text format) is an alternate simpler format it can be persuaded to produce. Word will also produce something that purports to be HTML, but it looks nothing like the usual HTML, full of Microsoft proprietary gobbledegook. It can also produce raw unformatted text files. If you want to interact with Word, you can use a search engine that can understand its document format such as Lucene or DieselPoint.
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