Those pesky file extensions
Mac Tip #93/19-March-2003
If you have a recent version of AppleWorks you’ll have noticed it seems to always want to add the letters .cwk at the end of the name of any file you create. Maybe you carefully delete them each time.
Well, it might be time to not only let them stay there but also to go ahead and add similar file extensions to files you make in other applications.
Some other common file extensions are (notice how they all start with a . — pronounced “dot”:
.docfor Microsoft Word documents.xlsfor Microsoft Excel documents.pptor.ppsfor Microsoft Powerpoint documents.txtfor plain text files.jpgor.gifor.tiff(or various others) for pictures.htmlfor web pages.pdffor PDF files (Portable Document Format)
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