Common data formats
and their file extensionsFile name cannot include the following characters:
* / \ | , ; : + = [ ] < > ? filename.xxx See File naming for cross platform use.AI Adobe Illustrator native file .AI8 Adobe Illustrator 8 native file .AIF sound file .APD Aldus PageMaker .ARC UNIX archive .ASC text file .AU sound file .AVI movie file .BAT dos text file .BIN text file encoded from binary file .HQX binhex encoded file .BMP Windows pixel file .CMD dos OS text file .CPT Compact Pro archive .CT Scitex continous tone format .DCS digital color seperation .DBF data base file .DCR Macromedia Director file .DIR Macromedia Director file .DOC MS Word .DOT MS Word .DV movie file .EPS PostScript file .EXE Windows application .FM FileMaker Pro .FM3 FileMaker Pro 3 .FTS Live Picture .GIF CompuServer Graphic Image File .HQX binhex encoded file (text) .HTM Web hypertext file .IMG Macintosh disk image .INI dos OS text file .JPG Joint Photographic Group file .MOV QuickTime file .MP3 sound file .MPG movie file .MW MacWrite II .PCX IBM indexed graphics file .PDF Adobe Acrobat file .PCT Pict file format .PM PageMaker file .PM3 PageMaker 3 file .PNG Portable Network Graphic format .PPT MS PowerPoint .PS PostScript file .PSD Photoshop native .QCP PureVoice sound file .QT QuickTime file .QXD QuarkXpress file .RA Real Audio sound file .RAM Real Audio sound file .RAW Pixel based file .RGB SGI pixel file .RIB Rinderman file .RIF pixel based file .RLE pixel based file .RM Real Audio .RSC Macintosh resource .RTF Rich Text Format .SEA Mac Stuffit archive .SIT Stuffit archive .SLK MS Excel .SND sound file .SUN Sun graphics file .SYK MS Excel file .TAR Sun archive .TEX text file .TGA Targa DOS pixel file .TIF Tagged Image File format .TSV MS Excel text file .TXT text file .UU Unix text encoded file .WP WordPerfect .WP4 WordPerfect 4 file .WPG WordPerfect Graphics .WRI Microsoft works text file .XL Excel .XLS Excel .ZIP zip archive file Top of page | More extensions