Can anyone give me a list of the most common file extension names?

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Can anyone give me a list of the most common file extension names?
This list is very large isn't it? I'll do my best, and list the most common:








Documents:





.doc : Microsoft Office Word 1980s - 2003


.docx : Microsoft Office Word 2007


.txt : Text document


.pdf : Adobe Reader


.ppt : Microsoft Office Powerpoint


.pub : Microsoft Office Publisher


.accdb : Micorsoft Office Access 2007


.mdb : Microsoft Office Access 1992 - 2003








Audio:





.mp3 : MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (Most commonly used audio format)


.wma : Windows media audio


.wav : Waveform audio format


.midi : Musical Instrument Digital Interface








Picture:





.jpeg : Most common picture format


.gif : Graphics Interchange Format


.png : Portable Network Graphics


.bmp : Bitmap








Video:





.avi : Audio Video Interleave (The most common video format)


.wmv : Windows Media Video


.mp4 : MPEG-4 Part 14


.mov : QuickTime video file


.3GP : (Most commonly used by mobile phones)


.rm : Real Media








The Web:





html : Hyper-text markup language (many webpages)


.php : Commonly used web scripting language


.css : Cascading Style Sheets








Other:





.swf : Shockwave flash (the player on youtube works with this)


.exe : Execuatble (Most sofware is this file format)





Hope this has helped





Thanks for Reading








p.s.








If you want the full list here it is:





A Library file (Unix)


A Object code library


A3L Authorware 3.x library


A3M Authorware MacIntosh file (unpackaged)


A3W Authorware Windows file (unpackaged)


A4L Authorware 4.x library


A4M Authorware MacIntosh file (unpackaged)


A4P Authorware file (packaged without runtime)


A5L Authorware 5.x library


A5W Authorware Windows file (unpackaged)


AA Audible audio file (commonly used for downloadable audio books)


AAM Authorware shocked file


AAS Authorware shocked packet


AB Applix Builder file


ABF Adobe Binary Screen Font


ABK Corel Draw AutoBackup


ABK Backup file (PrintMaster Gold)


ABM Audio album file (HitPlayer)


ABO Applix Builder Turbo file


ABS Standard GNU compiler output file for a PC platform


ABS Sometimes used to denote an abstract (as in an abstract or summary of a scientific paper) AutoBackup


ABS MPEG Audio Sound file


AC$ AutoCAD Undo Info file


ACA HTTP animation file (Microsoft Agent)


ACA Project Manager Workbench file


ACB ACBM Graphic image


ACC DR-DOS Viewmax file


ACD Character definiton file (Microsoft Agent)


ACE ACE Archiver Compression file


ACF HTTP character file (Microsoft Agent)


ACI ACI development appraisal (ACIWEB)


ACL Corel Draw 6 keyboard accelerator file


ACM Interplay compressed sound file (Fallout 1,2, Baulder's Gate)


ACM Dynamic Link Library (DLL)


ACM Windows system directory file


ACP Microsoft Office Assistant Preview file


ACR American College of Radiology file


ACS Character structered storage file (Microsoft Agent)


ACT FoxPro Foxdoc Action Diagram


ACT Action Presentation


ACT Documenting wizard action diagram (Microsoft Visual FoxPro)


ACT Microsoft Office Assistant Actor file


ACV Used to Compress and decompress audio data


AD After Dark screensaver


Ada Ada source text file (non-GNAT)


ADB HP 100LX Organizer Appointment database


ADB Ada source text body file (GNAT)


ADC Scanstudio 16 color Bitmap Graphic file


ADD OS/2 adapter driver file used in the boot process


ADF Amiga disk file


ADI AutoCAD device-independent binary plotter file


ADL QEMM Mca adaptor description library


ADM Windows NT policy template


ADM After Dark MultiModule screensaver (Microsoft)


ADN Lotus 1-2-3 Add-In file


ADP FaxWorks Faxmodem setup file


ADP Astound Dynamite file


ADP Dynamic Page file (AOLserver)


ADR Smart Address address book


ADR After Dark Randomizer screensaver


ADS Ada source text specification file (GNAT)


ADT AdTech Fax file


ADT HP NewWave datafile for card applications


ADX Lotus Approach dBase Index


ADX Archetype Designer Document


ADX Dynazip Active Delivery script


ADZ Packed ADF file (Extracts with WinZip)


AE Author/Editor file (SoftQuad)


AEP ArcExplorer project file


AF2 ABC FlowCharter 2.0 Flowchart


AF3 ABC Flowchart


AFC Apple Sound file


AFI Truevision Bitmap graphic


AFM HP NewWave Cardfile application


AFM Adobe metrics


AG Applix graphic


AI Corel Trace drawing


AI Adobe Illustrator drawing


AIF Audio Interchange File, a sound format used by Silicon Graphics and Macintosh applications


AIFC Similar to AIF (compressed)


AIFF Similar to AIF


AIM AOL Instant Messenger Launch file


AIN AIN Compressed archive


AIO APL transfer file


AIS Velvet Studio Instruments file


AIS Xerox Arry of Intensity Samples Graphic


AIS ACDSee Image Sequence


AIX HP NewWave Cardfile Application data


AKB HaleyAuthority Authority Knowledge Base File


AKW Contains all A-keywords in the RoboHELP Help Project Index Designer not associated with topics


ALAW European Telephony audio


ALB JASC Image Commander album


ALI Document file (SAP proprietary format)


ALIAS Alias Image


ALL WordPerfect for Windows General printer information file


ALL Arts %26amp; Letters Library


ALS Alias Image


ALT WordPerfect Library Menu


AM Applix SHELF Macro


AMF DSMIA/Asylum module music (Crusader,No Remorse,Aladdin)


AMF Music file (Advanced Module Format)


AMG ACTOR System image


AMG AMGC Compressed Archive File


AMI Annotation file (Cocreate SolidDesigner)


AMS Extreme's Tracker Module


AMS Velvet Studio music module (MOD) File


AMU Sony Photo Album


AN Text file (Sterling Software) (Groundworks COOL Business Team Model)


ANC Canon Computer Pattern Maker file that is a selectable list of pattern colors


ANI Microsoft Windows Animated cursor


ANM DeluxPaint Animation


ANN Windows 3.x Help annotation


ANS ANSI Text file


ANT SimAnt for Windows saved game


AOM Adobe Download Manager Online Manager Shortcut


AOM Adobe After Effects Output Settings


AOS Nokia 9000 Add-on software


AOT Applicatio binary object template file (ZenWorks snAPPshot)


AP WHAP Compressed Amiga archive


AP Applix Presents file


APC Lotus 1-2-3 Printer driver


APC Compiled application file (Centura Team Developer)


APD Lotus 1-2-3 Printer driver


APD Dynamic application library file (Centura Team Developer)


APE Winamp Plugins AVS File


APE Monkey's Audio Lossless Audio Compression Format


APF Project file (Allaire) (Created by Homesite)


APF Lotus 1-2-3 Printer driver


API Lotus 1-2-3 Printer driver


API Application Program Interface; used by Adobe Acrobat


APL APL Workspace file


APL Application library file (Centura Team Developer)


APP Symphony Add-in Application


APP Generated application or active document (Microsoft Visual FoxPro)


APP dBase Application Generator Object


APP DR-DOS Executable Application


APP FoxPro Generated Application


APP Normal mode application file (Centura Team Developer)


APR Employee Appraiser Performance Review file


APR Lotus Approach 97 View file


APR ArcView project file


APS Advanced patching systems with error checking, (Similar to IPS)


APS Microsoft Visual C++ file


APT Text mode application file (Centura Team Developer)


APT Lotus Approach Data view file


APX Borland C++ Appexpert database


APX Lotus Approach Paradox-Specific information file


AQ Applix data


ARC SQUASH Compressed archive


ARC LH ARC (old version) compressed archive


ARF Automatic Response file


ARI Aristotle audio file


ARI ARI Compressed archive


ARJ Robert Jung ARJ compressed archive (ARJ)


ARK ARC File Archiver CPM/Port archive


ARL AOL v4.0 organizer file


ARR Atari Cubase Arrangement


ART Canon Crayola art


ART Clip Art


ART Ray Tracer file


ART First Publisher Raster graphic


ART AOL Image file compressed using the Johson-Grace compression algorithm


ART Xara Studio drawing


ARX AutoCAD Runtime Extension


ARX ARX Compressed Archive


AS Applix Spreadsheet


ASA Microsoft Visual InterDev file


ASC PGP armored encrypted file


ASC ASCII text file


ASD Lotus 1-2-3 Screen driver


ASD Microsoft Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) description file; opens with NSREX


ASD Astound Presentation


ASD WinWord AutoSave file


ASE Velvet Studio Sample file


ASF Microsoft Advanced Streaming Format


ASF StratGraphics Datafile


ASF Lotus 1-2-3 Screen font


ASF Music file (Electronic Arts)


ASH TASM 3.0 Assembly language header


ASI Borland C++/Turbo C Assembler Include file


ASM Pro/E assembly file


ASM Assembler Language source file


ASO Astound Dynamite Object


ASP Procomm Plus setup and connection script


ASP Astound Presentation


ASP Active Server Page (an HTML file containing a Microsoft server-processed script)


AST Claris Works "assistant" file


AST Astound multimedia file


ASV DataCAD Autosave file


ASX Microsoft Advanced Streaming Redirector file


ASX Video file


ASX Cheyenne Backup script


AT2 Aldus Persuasion 2.0 Auto Template


ATM Adobe Type Manager data/info file


ATT AT%26amp;T Group 4 bitmap


ATW AnyTime Deluxe for Windows personal information manager file from Individual Software MultiModule screensaver


AU Audio U-law (pronounced mu-law)


AU Sun/NeXT/DEC/UNIX sound file


AUD Audio file (Westwood Studios) (Kyrandia 3,C%26amp;C,RedAlert,C%26amp;C:TS)


AUP Audacity project file


AUX ChiWriter Auxilliary Dictionary file


AUX TeX/LaTeX Auxilliary Reference file


AVA Avagio Publication


AVB Inculan Anti-Virus virus infected file


AVG AVG Virus Information Database


AVI Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved file for Windows movie


AVR Audio Visual Research file


AVS Stardent AVS-X Image


AVS Application Visualization System file


AVX File Extension (ArcView)


AW Applix Words file


AW HP AdvanceWrite Text file


AWD FaxView Document image


AWE Acrobat Bookmark XML File


AWK AWK Script/Program


AWM Animation Works Movie


AWR Telsis file for digitally stored audio


AWS StatGraphics Data file


AXL ArcIMS XML project file


AXT ASCII application object template (ZenWorks snAPPshot)


AXX ARJ compressed file from a multi-volume archive (xx = a number)
Reply:I can't give you a list, but I can give you a couple of websites that will tell you what programme(s) were used to give such a suffix.





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Nice one, jigs1_69. I've added that site to my favourites.
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Every file extension in the world :)
Reply:EXE, AVI, DOC, TXT, DLL, MP3, WAV, HTML


(to name a few)