File Extensions Flashcards
.aiff or .aif
Audio Interchange File Format
.au
Basic Audio
.avi
Multimedia Audio/Video
.bat
PC batch file
.bmp
Windows BitMap
.class
Java class file is a file containing Java bytecode that can be executed on the Java Virtual Machine
.java
Java language file
.jar
Java classes archive file
.jpg or .jpeg
Bitmap graphics (Joint Photography Experts Group)
.csv
Comma separated, variable length file
.cvs
Canvas
.dbf
dbase II, III, IV data
.dif
Data Interchange format
.doc or .docx
Microsoft Word for Windows/Word97
.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
.mac
MacPaint
.map
Web page imagemap
.mdb
MS Access database
.mid or .midi
MIDI sound
.mov or .qt
QuickTime Audio/Video
.mtb or .mtw
MiniTab
Acrobat-Portable document format
.p65 or t65
PageMaker (the numbers following represent the version #) P=publication, T=template
.png
Portable Network Graphics
.ppt or .pptx
PowerPoint
.psd
Adobe PhotoShop
.psp
PaintShop Pro
.qxd
QuarkXPress
.ra
RealAudio
.rtf
Rich Text Format
.sit
Stuffit Compressed Archive
.tar
UNIX TAR Compressed Archive
.tif
TIFF graphic
.txt
ASCII text (Mac text does not contain line feeds–use DOS Washer Utility to fix)
.wav
Windows sound
.wk3
Lotus 1-2-3 (the numbers following represent the version #)
.wks
MS Works
.wpd or .wp5
WordPerfect (the numbers following represent the version #)
.xls or .xlsx
Excel spreadsheet
.zip
PC Zip Compressed Archive