Document
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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)
- UOF (Chinese office document format)
Collaboration
- Microsoft OneNote (ONE, ONEPKG)
Desktop Publishing
- Calamus Vector Graphic
- Impression
- Microsoft Publisher (.pub)
- PUZ (archived "Pack and Go" file)
- PageMaker (originally from Aldus, later Adobe)
- PageMagic (.dtp)
- Serif PagePlus (.ppp)
- The Print Shop (Broderbund)
- 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)
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
- 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)
- STI (OpenOffice.org 1.0 presentation template)
- SXI (StarOffice / OpenOffice.org)
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
- OpenOffice.org
- pfs:Plan
- Quattro Pro
- SDC (StarOffice spreadsheet)
- SuperCalc 3
- Swift Spreadsheet (Atari 8-bit)
- 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
- 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)
- OpenOffice.org
- STW (OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document Template)
- Pages (Apple iWork/iCloud)
- PC-Write
- 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)
- Star Office Writer
- TechWriter (Scientific word processor file format)
- TI-Writer
- Volkswriter
- Wang (dedicated word processing machines)
- WordPerfect
- WordStar
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
