Common Windows File Extensions

 

Common Windows File Extensions

File Extension

File Type

.TXT

Notepad

.RTF

WordPad (Rich Text Format)

.BMP

Windows Bitmap (MS PAINT)

.DOC or .DOCX

Microsoft Word

.XLS or XLSX

Microsoft Excel

.PPT or .PPTX

Microsoft PowerPoint

.MDB

Microsoft Access database

.ODT

Libre Office Writer

.ODS

Libre Office Calc

.ODP

Libre Office Impress

.ODG

Libre Office Draw

.ODB

Libre Office Database

.AIFF or .AIF

Audio Interchange File Format

.AU

Basic Audio

.AVI

Multimedia Audio/Video

.BAT

PC batch file

.CLASS or .JAVA

Java files

.CSV

Comma separated, variable length file (Open in Excel)

.CVS

Canvas

.DBF

dbase II, III, IV data

.DIF

Data Interchange format

.EPS

Encapsulated PostScript

.EXE

PC Application

.FM3

Filemaker Pro databases (the numbers following represent the version #)

.GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

.HQX

Macintosh BinHex

.HTM or .HTML

Web page source text

.JPG or JPEG

JPEG graphic

.MAC

MacPaint

.MAP

Web page imagemap

.MID or .MIDI

MIDI sound

.MOV or .QT

QuickTime Audio/Video

.MTB or .MTW

MiniTab

.PDF

Acrobat -Portable document format

.P65
.T65

PageMaker (the numbers following represent the version #) P=publication, T=template

.PNG

Portable Network Graphics

.PSD

Adobe PhotoShop

.PSP

PaintShop Pro

.QXD

QuarkXPress

.RA

RealAudio

.SIT

Stuffit Compressed Archive

.TAR

UNIX TAR Compressed Archive

.TIF

TIFF graphic

.WAV

Windows sound

.WK3

Lotus 1-2-3 (the numbers following represent the version #)

.WKS

MS Works

WPD or .WP5

Word Perfect (the numbers following represent the version #)

.ZIP

PC Zip Compressed Archive


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