Document

Revision as of 04:29, 30 March 2016

General and multi-function

• Google Document (.gdoc)
• iWork (Apple; used for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote)
• Microsoft Compound File (OLE Compound Document)
• Microsoft Office File Format Specifications
• Office Open XML
• OpenDocument (ODF; OASIS)
• OpenOffice.org XML
• StarOffice binary formats
• UOF (Chinese office document format)

Collaboration

• Microsoft OneNote (ONE, ONEPKG)

Desktop Publishing

• Calamus (.cdk)
• Impression
• Microsoft Publisher (.pub)
  • PUZ (archived "Pack and Go" file)
• Newsroom, The
• PageMagic (.dtp)
• PageMaker (originally from Aldus, later Adobe)
• Print Shop, The (Broderbund)
• Scribus (.sla, .scd)
• Serif PagePlus (.ppp)
• Timeworks Publisher (also released as Publish It!) (.dtp)

Document Processors

(similar to word processors and desktop publishing but designed particularly for building structured documents such as technical documentation)

• FrameMaker
  • Element Definition Document
• troff

Document storage/exchange formats (non-program-specific)

• AFP (Advanced Format Printing)
• CSV (Comma Separated Values)
• Data Interchange Format (DIF)
• DDIF
• DjVu
• OpenXPS
• PDF (Portable Document Format)
• Plain text (TXT) (Un-structured text document)
• PostScript
• RTF (Rich Text Format)
• RTFD (Rich Text Format Directory)
• SYLK (Symbolic Link)

Label making

• P-touch Editor Label (.lbt, .lbx)

Presentation

• Harvard Graphics
• Keynote (Apple iWork/iCloud)
• OpenDocument Presentation (.odp, .otp)
• PmDraw
• PowerPoint
  • PPS (PowerPoint slide show- autoplay)
  • PPSM (PowerPoint macro-enabled slide show)
  • PPSX (PowerPoint slide show, XML format- autoplay)
  • POT (PowerPoint template)
  • POTM (PowerPoint macro-enabled template)
  • POTX (PowerPoint template, XML format)
  • PPT (PowerPoint presentation)
  • PPTM (PowerPoint macro-enabled presentation)
  • PPTX (PowerPoint presentation, XML format)
• SXI (StarOffice / OpenOffice.org) (.sxi, .sti)

Spreadsheet

• Ability Spreadsheet (.aws, .ast)
• Excel
  • SpreadsheetML (XML format preceding later XLSX format)
  • XLM (Excel spreadsheet macro, old pre-XML format)
  • XLS (Excel spreadsheet old pre-XML format)
  • XLSB (Excel binary workbook)
  • XLSM (Excel macro-enabled spreadsheet format, XML version)
  • XLSX (Excel spreadsheet format, XML version)
  • XLT (Excel template, old pre-XML format)
  • XLTM (Excel macro-enabled template, XML version)
  • XLTX (Excel template, XML version)
• Gnumeric (.gnumeric, .gnm)
• Google Sheet (.gsheet)
• Lotus 1-2-3 (.wks, .wk1, .wk2, .wk3, .wk4)
• Lotus Symphony
• Microsoft Works spreadsheet (.wks)
• Mouse Calc (Apple II)
• MultiPlan (early Microsoft spreadsheet)
• Numbers (Apple iWork/iCloud)
• OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods, .ots)
• pfs:Plan
• Quattro Pro
• SDC (StarOffice spreadsheet)
• SuperCalc 3
• Swift Spreadsheet (Atari 8-bit)
• SXC (OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet) (.sxc, .stc)
• VisiCalc

(or you can just do a spreadsheet with pen and paper)

Word Processor

• Ability Write (.aww, .awp)
• AbiWord (.abw)
• AppleWorks
• Bank Street Writer
• Breeze
• ChiWriter (.chi)
• ClarisWorks (Mac)
• Cut & Paste (Electronic Arts Home Management Software)
• DotWriter (TRS-80, Apple II)
• EasiWriter / TechWriter (Word processor file format)
• Easywriter
• The Electric Pencil (word processor for 8080/Z-80 machines, and later IBM PC)
• EPOC Word
• HomeWord (Sierra Online, Apple II)
• HWP (Hancom Word, Korean)
• HWPML (Hangul Word Processor Markup Language, Korean)
• IBM Displaywriter (dedicated word processing machine)
• IBM Writing Assistant (.iwa)
• JOT (Juggler Of Text; experimental word processor by Ted Nelson c. 1980)
• Kingsoft Office (.wps, .wpt)
• LocoScript
• LWP (Lotus WordPro Document)
• MacWrite
• Magic Window
• MCW
• Microsoft Word
  • DOC (Word document)
  • DOCM (Word macro-enabled document)
  • DOCX (Word document, XML format)
  • DOT (Word template)
  • DOTM (Word macro-enabled template)
  • DOTX (Word template, XML format)
  • WordProcessingML (XML format preceding later DOCX one)
• Microsoft Works word processor document (.wps, .wpt)
• Microsoft Write (.wri)
• Mouse Word (Apple II)
• Mousewrite (Apple II; apparently a different program from Mouse Word)
• MultiMate Professional Word Processor (.dox, .pat)
• OpenDocument Text (.odt, .ott)
• Pages (Apple iWork/iCloud)
• PC-Write
• Perfect Writer
• pfs:Write
• PIE Writer (Hayden Software, Apple II)
• Psion Series 3 Word (.wrd)
• Samna Word
• Scripsit
• ScreenWriter II (for Apple II; formerly SuperScribe II)
• Scrivener (.scriv)
• SDW (StarOffice Writer)
• SXW and STW (OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text) (.sxw, .stw)
• TechWriter (Scientific word processor file format)
• TI-Writer
• Volkswriter
• Wang (dedicated word processing machines)
  • Wang 1200 (1972; used cassette storage)
  • Wang OIS (1977; used disks)
• WordPerfect
• WordStar
  • WordStar 2000

Other

• 602
• ACL
• CCF
• Computable Document Format (.cdf)
• CWK
• EGT
• FDX
• FTM
• FTX
• MBP
• ODM
• OMM
• OTT
• PAP
• PDAX
• QUOX
• RPT
• UOML
• VIA
• WRD
• WRF

See also Markup

Links

• CVs and File Extensions
• Trustworthiness of Information by File Extension (xkcd comic with discussion thread)
• Text editors in Lord of the Rings
• Sharing or collaborating with government documents (UK government proposal)
• Four Skills That Will Turn You Into a Spreadsheet Ninja
• Document Freedom Day: Celebrating information accessibility and raising awareness of Open Standards.
• G-Cloud and open file formats, a cautionary tale
• Redaction rules: How best to keep the secrets
• Testing for encrypted Office documents
• Pandoc: Document format conversion swiss-army knife
• Give Me Text: online converter of various document formats to plain text
• The Writer's Guide to Word Processing File Formats