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A Word document is never Transparent. From the GFDL:
A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
represented in a format whose specification is available to the
general public ...
The Word format specification is not available to the public.
Word documents can be read and written by a free software whose source
code is available (openoffice). So I think that now we can say that the
specification of the Word format is available to the public, even if it
is not published by M$. (there might be an exeption for some unusual
very complex word documents not fully understandable by openoffice, but
from my experience this is only a very tiny proportion of word documents
using some special feature like macros, etc.).
Olive
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