When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...

Red Eye Rose received a file with a strange extension. She doesn’t know into what program she should load it. Neither does Windows. I doubt that anyone knows all of the file extensions used since the ...

File extensions are the characters that precede the last period of a file name. It helps us find the type of file we are trying to open i.e. whether it is an audio file, video file, or simply a ...

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Whether you're looking at documents regarding business analysis, performance reporting or financial management, you might come across a special type of Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with the file ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside. However, [PortalRunner] has ...

BearPup sometimes wants to open a file in one program, and other times open it in another. He asked the Answer Line forum for an easy way to do this. Windows uses a file’s extension–the part of the ...

Microsoft Access, available as part of Microsoft Office, allows business owners to manage their databases and develop software applications. Prior to 2007, Access saved certain database information in ...

You can get a whole lot of work done with just Web apps nowadays, but sometimes you simply need the power of full-fledged desktop applications like Photoshop or ...