| Name | MD | DOCX |
| Full name | MD, Markdown Documentation File | DOCX - Office Open XML Document |
| File extension | .md | .docx, .docm |
| MIME type | application/vnd.-openxmlformats-officedocument.-wordprocessingml.-document | |
| Developed by | John Gruber | Microsoft |
| Type of format | Developer | Document file format |
| Description | MD files are basically text files. The text inside is written in one of many different dialects of the Markdown development language. They are used to author documentation also in a plain text format, so they can be turned into the HTML format. Furthermore, MD files are used to version control source code because it makes it easy to compare the code to revisions that have been written in human-readable text. | The Office Open XML file formats are a set of file formats that can be used to represent electronic 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. |
| Technical details | The data inside the MD file is saved in plain text. However, this text can contain inline symbols that indicate how certain parts of the text should be formatted; such as bold, italic, table formatting, and more. The developer of the MD file format, John Gruber, also developed a program using the Perl programming language which allows the easy conversion of MD files in Markdown to HTML. Next to MD, Markdown files can also be saved using the MARKDOWN file extension. | Office Open XML documents are stored in Open Packaging Convention (OPC) packages, which are ZIP files containing XML and other data files, along with a specification of the relationships between them. Depending on the type of the document, the packages have different internal directory structures and names. |
| File conversion | MD conversion | DOCX conversion |
| Associated programs | Apple TextEdit (Mac), Daring Fireball Markdown (Windows, Mac & Linux), GitHUb (Web), GNU Emacs (Linux), gVim (Windows), MacroMates TextMate (Mac & Linux), MacVim (Mac), Microsoft Notepad (Windows), Microsoft WordPad (Windows), Vim (Linux), any other text editor | Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, Kingsoft Office, Google Docs. |
| Wiki | https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML_file_formats |
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