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Normally xls is the extension for an Excel spreadsheet document.

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Regular Excel files that are compatible with old versions of Excel (95 or 97) have the extension .xls. Regular Excel files made in or for 2007 or later have the extension .xlsx.

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What is Excel file 3 word extension?

I presume you mean 3 letter extension. In that case it is "xls". There are also other Excel extensions like "xlt", "xlw" and "xla", amongst others.


What is the extension of the word document and Excel document?

For most typical Word documents the extension is .docFor Excel workbooks (spreadsheets) the extension is .xlsIn general the file extension is the 3 letter/number "code" after the period in the complete file name that gives a hint as to what type of file it is. For example, in the file name resume.docthe word resume is the file's actual name and the .doc tells you that it is a document file.


What is the 3 letter extension for a microsoft word file?

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DOS requires a 3 character file extension?

No. DOS allows a max 3 character long file extension.


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There is no specific file extension for MS-DOS. Files can have any 3 character extension in MS-DOS.


How do you recover the lost password in a protected Excel work sheet?

Suppose you have to view an important excel sheet data but you have forget the password then you need to do excel password recovery, unfortunately MS excel doesn't offer any option for password recovery. You can try the following steps but it will work in MS excel 2007 only. 1) Change file extension .zip from .xls/xlsx. 2) Extract this zipped file. 3) Go to the extracted files and navigate to the .xml for the target sheet (found in the 'xl\worksheets' directory) like filename.xml 4) Open this .xml file in to xml editor and file and find <sheetProtection password="CC58" sheet="1"/> line and remove it. 5) Now save this file and change extension back to .xlsx from .zip. You will be able to open your file successfully without any password.


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What is a file that is the last 3 characters that follow the file name that identify the type of program used to create the file?

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