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General and multi-function
- ActiveMime (format used to store macros within MS Office documents)
- 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)
Documentation combined with source code
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
- Canon Cat
- ChiWriter (.chi)
- ClarisWorks (Mac) (CWK)
- 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
- 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)
- WordPerfect
- WordStar
Other
- 602
- ACL
- CCF
- Computable Document Format (.cdf)
- EGT
- FDX
- FTM
- FTX
- MBP
- ODM
- OMM
- OTT
- PAP
- PDAX
- Photoshop Text Engine Data
- 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
