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 |
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 |