Hackers have exposed heavily redacted information from the latest 11,034 documents in the Epstein files, released on Monday.

Today's the deadline for the Justice Department to release its files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected financier and pedophile.

Microsoft Word is the world's leading word processing application, and documents created in the program are saved in a proprietary format. Even though these .docx or .doc files are native to Word, it is possible to open them without owning the program.

(DOCument file) The default file format in a version of Word, Microsoft's word processing application prior to Microsoft Office 2007. DOC files use a .DOC extension and differ from text files (.TXT extension) because they contain proprietary codes that ...

Functionally, plain text excels at writing and storing information without locking it in the document. Plus, the files are tiny so they load instantly, and they don’t break when software changes. Version control also works flawlessly with plain text files,

The DOCM file format was introduced in Microsoft Word 2007 as an improvement to the previous DOC format. DOCM uses Extensible Markup Lanugage, or XML, for better security, smaller file sizes and improved data recovery for your business documents.