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Office 2007 File Format MIME Types for HTTP Content Streaming

Summary

Office 2007 introduced new file formats for common document types (Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations), and has standardized on new MIME types for each new format.  The following information is provided to document the new MIME types and their proper use in HTTP content streaming situations.

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The following table documents the HTTP MIME types that are available when working with Office 2007 documents:

Ext

MIME Type

.doc

application/msword

.dot

application/msword

.docx

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

.dotx

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template

.docm

application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12

.dotm

application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12

.xls

application/vnd.ms-excel

.xlt

application/vnd.ms-excel

.xla

application/vnd.ms-excel

.xlsx

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

.xltx

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template

.xlsm

application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12

.xltm

application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12

.xlam

application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12

.xlsb

application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12

.ppt

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

.pot

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

.pps

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

.ppa

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint

.pptx

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation

.potx

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template

.ppsx

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow

.ppam

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.addin.macroEnabled.12

.pptm

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12

.potm

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12

.ppsm

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12

To fully support the new types, web server administrators are advised to add the MIME types for the Open XML formats to their web server metabase settings so as to add the correct MIME type header in documents saved directly on the server and sent back.  For Windows 2003 Servers running IIS 6.0, you can add the Open XML types in IIS Manager, Server Properties, MIME Types.  These new formats are included in Windows 2008 running IIS 7.0 by default.  For more details on the default MIME types for IIS, please see the following KB article:

936496: Description of the default settings for the MimeMap property and for the ScriptMaps property in IIS

Clients that install Office 2007 or the Office 2007 File Format Compatibility Pack will get client-side MIME mappings to these formats by default.  

To use the MIME type in your ASP/ASP.NET code, you should use the built-in Response.ContentType property and set it to the MIME value that matches the content type you are providing.  If you fail to set the correct type, security checks by the client may prevent the content from being opened or may prompt the user with an alert that the file is not in the correct format.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2008
    Web sites that use an XLS MIME type to open content in Excel 2007 from a web site may see warning alert that file is in a different format than its extension. This is a new alert to Excel 2007. The reason for the alert, and things you can do to work around

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2008
    The following post offers documentation on the Office 2007 MIME Types that can be used for HTTP content

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2009
    ReturnPath: Received: by 10.100.105.15 with SMTP id d15mr3505060anc.140.1241107989947; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:13:09 0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:13:09 0400 From: Bill Branan <bbranan@fedora...