Using Windows Files On A Mac

The most popular Mac applications use the exact same file formatsas their Windows counterparts, making it easy to open and usefiles created on Windows PCs on a Mac. You can also share filesusing e-mail, a network volume, recordable CDs, Zip disks, a .MaciDisk, or other storage devices.

Some of the common file types are:

Productivity

Plain text (.txt), rich text (.rtf), Word (.doc), Dbase (.dbf), Excel (.xls),PageMaker (.pm3, 4, 5, 6), PowerPoint (.ppt), Quark XPress (.qxd),Quicken (.qdf)

Media:

MP3 (.mp3), AAC (.aac), AIFF (.aiff), ASF (.asf), AVI (.avi), MIDI (.midi),MPEG1, MPEG 2, and MPEG 4 video (.mpg, .mp2, .mp4), QuickTimeMovie (.qt, .mov), Real Audio/Video (.ra, .ram), Wave Form Audio(.wav), Windows Media Audio and Video (.mwa, .wmv)

Graphics

BMP (.bmp), GIF (.gif), JPEG (.jpg), TIFF (.tif), PICT (.pct), EPS (.eps),Photoshop (.ps), PostScript (.ps), PDF (.pdf)

Internet

HTML (.html, .htm), MIME (.mim, .mime), XML (.xml)

Compression

Stuffit (.sit) and ZIP (.zip)Filename extensions are usually hidden in Mac OS X. To show thefilename extension for all files, choose Finder > Preferences andselect “Always show file extensions.”