Compound document

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This article is about compound documents in general. For the W3C standard, see Compound Document Format.
Example of a compound document in Microsoft Office Word
Example of a compound document in Microsoft Office Word

In computing, a compound document is a document type typically produced using word processing software, and is a regular text document intermingled with non-text elements such as spreadsheets, pictures, digital videos, digital audio, and other multimedia features. It can also be used to collect several documents into one.

Compound document technologies are commonly utilized on top of a software componentry framework, but the idea of software componentry includes several other concepts apart from compound documents, and software components alone do not enable compound documents. Well-known technologies for compound documents include:

While the origins of the compound document are uncertain, the first public implementation was on the Xerox Star workstation, released in 1981. [1]

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