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Word 2003 or Word 2016, plain or formatted text, compressed or not: type the extension the file should have.

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About this interactive

A file extension is the part of the name after the period, and it tells the operating system which program opens the file. Word saves .doc in Word 2003 and earlier and .docx in Word 2007 and later; Excel does the same with .xls and .xlsx. A .txt file is text without formatting, opened in Notepad on Windows; .rtf, rich text format, is text with formatting. One program can save several formats: Paint's Save as offers PNG, JPEG, BMP and GIF, and a bitmap is saved uncompressed while a JPEG (.jpg) is compressed. One app can own several extensions too: Chrome opens both .htm and .html, and Adobe Acrobat opens .pdf. Type the extension without its dot. Capitals do not matter.

What you'll learn

Aligned to

CompTIA Tech+
3.2 Compare and contrast components of an operating system.
1.2 Compare and contrast fundamental data types and their characteristics.

Key terms

File Extension
A suffix appended to a filename after a period that identifies the file format and tells the operating system which program to use to open it.
Default Application
The program an operating system automatically uses to open a specific file type based on its extension.
Bitmap
An uncompressed image format that stores color data for every pixel individually, with file size directly determined by pixel dimensions and bit depth.
Compression
The process of reducing file size by encoding data more efficiently, associated with formats such as .zip, .rar, and .tar.
Portable Document Format
PDF
A file format designed to present documents consistently across different devices and operating systems, viewable with a free reader application without requiring the original authoring software.

Topics

File Extension Default Application Bitmap Compression Interactive Fill In

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