DOC may refer to any of the following:

  1. In general, doc is shorthand for a word document.

  2. In computing, .doc is a file extension associated with WordPad and other word processing programs. Microsoft Word is an example of a word processor used to view .doc files.

DOCX, Microsoft, Word processor, Word processor terms

Newer versions of Microsoft Word default to the .docx file extension.

  • How to create a document.
  • Open Word, Excel, PowerPoint files without Microsoft Office.
  • Computer file extension help and listing.