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Examples:
Below are some basic file extensions and a little information about the extension name. There are thousands of extensions - so I'm not trying to list them all.
| .doc |
Word document (usually) |
| .pdf |
portable document format |
| .ppt |
PowerPoint document |
| .xls |
Excel document |
| .gif |
picture - Graphics Interchange Format |
| .txt |
text file |
| .jpg |
jpeg - Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| .png |
picture - Portable Network Graphics |
| .exe |
executable file |
| .htm |
web page - hyper text markup language |
Have an extension that you need to lookup some information on? Check out this site - FileInfo.net - the definitive file extensions resource.
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