Document

Latest revision as of 18:57, 24 April 2026

[edit] General and multi-function

• 602Pro PC Suite
• ActiveMime (format used to store macros within MS Office documents)
• Airtable (cloud-based documents combining database and spreadsheet functionality)
• BeagleWorks
• COSMI MultiMedia
• EIOffice (Chinese office suite alternative)
• Farallon Replica ('90s cross platform document)
• Google Document (.gdoc)
• iWork (Apple; used for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote)
• Microsoft Compound File (OLE Compound Document)
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Works
• Office Open XML
• OpenDocument (ODF; OASIS)
• OpenOffice.org XML
• PerfectWorks (Novell WordPerfect)
• PFS:First Choice
• StarOffice binary formats
• UOF (Chinese office document format)
• Synology Office (.odoc, .osheet, .oslides)

[edit] Collaboration

• Microsoft OneNote (ONE, ONEPKG)

[edit] Desktop Publishing

• 3M Printscape
• 3M Post-It
• Affinity Publisher (.afpub)
• Calamus (.cdk)
• Canvas
• Corel Print House (.cph)
• Corel Print Office (.cpo)
• Dynamic Publisher
• Express Publisher (.epd)
• GEM Desktop Publisher (.gwd)
• Greenstreet Publisher (.dtp)
• Hallmark Card Studio
• Impression
• InDesign / InCopy
  • InDesign INDD
  • IDML
  • InDesign INX
  • InDesign Book (.indb)
  • InDesign Library (.indl)
  • InCopy (.icml)
• iPublish (.did)
• Microsoft Home Publishing (.php)
• Microsoft Publisher (.pub)
  • PUZ (archived "Pack and Go" file)
• Newsroom, The
• PageMagic (.dtp)
• PageMaker (originally from Aldus, later Adobe)
• PrintMaster
• PrintPartner
• Print Shop, The (Broderbund)
• QuarkXPress
• Ragtime
• Ready, Set, Go!
• Scribus (.sla, .scd)
• Serif PagePlus (.ppp)
• Timeworks Publisher (also released as Publish It!) (.dtp)
• Ventura Publisher (Corel) (.chp)
• VivaDesigner (.desd)
• VivaPress (.vpd)

[edit] Document Processors

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

• Bikeshed
• DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)
• FrameMaker
  • Element Definition Document
  • Maker Interchange Format (MIF)
• LaTeX
• Scribe
• TeX
• troff

[edit] Documentation combined with source code

• CWEB
• Doxygen
• Javadoc
• Noweb
• Pod
• RDoc
• WEB

[edit] Document storage/exchange formats (non-program-specific)

• AFP (Advanced Format Printing)
• CSV (Comma Separated Values)
• Common Ground
• Data Interchange Format (DIF)
• DDIF
• DjVu
• Envoy
• FTXT
• IBM BookManager book
• OpenXPS
• PDF (Portable Document Format)
  • XDP
  • XFA
  • XFDF
• Plain text (TXT) (Un-structured text document)
• Portable Text [1]
• PostScript
• RTF (Rich Text Format)
• RTFD (Rich Text Format Directory)
• SYLK (Symbolic Link)
• WWF (non-printable variant of PDF)

[edit] Label making

• Avery Labels
• P-touch Editor Label (.lbt, .lbx)
• JWL (Roxio Label Creator)
• NTI JewelCase Maker (.jwc)
• Discus (.cdl)

[edit] Presentation

• ARTstor Presentation (.prs)
• Astound Presentation (.asd)
• Asymetrix Compel (.cpl)
• Corel Presentations (.shw, .mst)
• DemoMaker (R. Janorkar)
• Harvard Graphics
  • SPC Runtime Presentation (.ply)
• Keynote (Apple iWork/iCloud)
• OpenDocument Presentation (.odp, .otp)
• Persuasion (.pr2, .pr3)
• PmDraw
• PowerPoint
  • PPT (PowerPoint presentation)
  • PPTX (PowerPoint presentation, XML format)
  • PPS, PPSM, PPSX, POT, POTM, POTX, PPTM: See PowerPoint.
• SHW (Corel)
• Stanford Graphics
• SXI (StarOffice / OpenOffice.org) (.sxi, .sti)

See also:

• Presentation file creation software

[edit] Spreadsheet

• Ability Spreadsheet (.aws, .ast)
• As-Easy-As
• Corel Calculate
• CSS STATISTICA (.css; spreadsheet format used in Statistica)
• DeskMate Worksheet (.wks)
• Full Impact
• Gnumeric (.gnumeric, .gnm)
• Google Sheet (.gsheet)
• Lotus 1-2-3 (.wks, .wk1, .wk2, .wk3, .wk4)
• Lotus Improv (.imp, .imx)
• Lotus Symphony
• Microsoft 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)
• Microsoft Works Spreadsheet (.wks)
• Mouse Calc (Apple II)
• MOXCEL (.mxl) 1
• MultiPlan (early Microsoft spreadsheet)
• Numbers (Apple iWork/iCloud)
• OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods, .ots)
• PC-Calc
• pfs:Plan
• Quattro Pro
• SDC (StarOffice spreadsheet)
• SuperCalc 3
• Swift Spreadsheet (Atari 8-bit)
• SXC (OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet) (.sxc, .stc)
• VisiCalc

See also:

• Spreadsheet file creation software

[edit] Word Processor

• Ability Write (.aww, .awp)
• AbiWord (.abw)
• Ami Pro (.sam)
• AppleWorks
• Bank Street Writer
• Breeze
• Brother WP Typewriters
  • Brother 120k
  • Brother 240k
  • Brother HD
• Canon Cat
• ChiWriter (.chi)
• ClarisWorks (Mac) (CWK)
• Corel Write
• Cut & Paste (Electronic Arts Home Management Software)
• DavkaWriter (.dwd)
• DeskMate Text (.doc)
• DisplayWrite (IBM)
• 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)
• Envision Publisher
• EPOC Word
• FullWrite (Mac)
• geoWrite
• 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)
• Ichitaro (.jtd)
• JOT (Juggler Of Text; experimental word processor by Ted Nelson c. 1980)
• JustWrite
• Kingsoft Office (.wps, .wpt)
• LocoScript
• Lotus Word Pro (.lwp)
• MacWrite
• Magic Window
• Maple
• 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)
  • Microsoft Word for Macintosh
  • WordProcessingML (XML format preceding later DOCX one)
• Microsoft Works Word Processor (.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)
• Nisus Writer
• Nota Bene (.nb)
• OpenDocument Text (.odt, .ott)
• Pages (Apple iWork/iCloud)
• PC-Outline
• PC-Type
• PC-Write
• Perfect Writer
• pfs:Write
• PIE Writer (Hayden Software, Apple II)
• @PROMT (.std)
• Psion Series 3 Word (.wrd)
• QR-Tekst (.qrt)
• RFT
• Samna Word
• ScreenWriter II (for Apple II; formerly SuperScribe II)
• Scripsit
• Scrivener (.scriv)
• SDW (StarOffice Writer)
• Storyist (.story)
• Student Writing Center
• SXW and STW (OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text) (.sxw, .stw)
• TAG
• 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
• WriteNow

See also:

• Document file creation software

[edit] Screenwriting

• Adobe Story (.astx)
• Celtx (.celtx or .cxscript)
• Dramatica
• FadeIn
• Final Draft (.fdr, .fdx)
• Fountain
• Hollywood Screenplay (.hss)
• Movie Magic
  • ScreenWriter (.scw)
  • Scheduling Export File (.sex)
• Movie Master 1
• Open Screenplay (.xml)
• Scriptware (.scr)

[edit] Indexing

• Cindex

[edit] Other

• ACL
• CCF
• Computable Document Format (.cdf)
• DBT
• EGT
• FDX
• FTM
• FTX
• IBM Storyboard Text Maker Document
• MBP
• Notability
• OBD
• ODM
• OLE 1.0 object
• OMM
• OTT
• PAP
• PaperLess MicroViewer
• PDAX
• Photoshop Text Engine Data
• PowerBI (.pbix)
• QUOX
• RIFF STYL
• RPT
• SHS
• SNP
• Tableau
  • Tableau WorkBook (.twb, .twbx)
  • Tableau Bookmarks (.tbm)
  • Tableau Data Source (.tds, .tdsx)
  • Tableau Data Extract (.hyper, .tde)
  • Tableau Flow File (.tfl, .tflx)
• UOML
• VIA
• WRD
• WRF

See also Markup

[edit] 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
• Document Liberation Project
• The Business Case: Office software runnable in-browser at Internet Archive
• Indexing Software : Wikipedia