Add-a-Photo-to-a-Document-Using-Microsoft-Publisher-Step-11.jpg/aid2143137-v4-728px-Add-a-Photo-to-a-Document-Using-Microsoft-Publisher-Step-11.jpg' alt='How To Open Microsoft Publisher File With Another Program Like Microsoft' title='How To Open Microsoft Publisher File With Another Program Like Microsoft' />How to Open Files in Windows with Different File Extensions. Ive always wanted to write a resource article on how to open files with different file extensions such as. Ive come across this issue myself many times usually because someone sent me a file and I have no idea which program opens it So if you come across a file with a strange extension you have never seen before, there are a couple of ways you can identify which program opens that file. Im also going to go through some of most common file types that people need to open, but if its not in my list, check the online lookup sites that will let you search for file extensions. The easiest way to determine the program associated with a file type is to use an online database of file extensions. There are a couple of sites with thousands of entries, so unless someone made up their own file extension, you should be able to find it. File. Info. My favorite site for getting information on files is File. Info because it has a huge database plus its got a very clean and well organized site. Just type your extension into file extension search box to get started. I searched for. NRG and got the following results At the top, you see it is a Nero CDDVD Image file and you get a short description of exactly what the file might be. Also, this site gives you really useful info sometimes like in this case where it says you can convert NRG files to standard ISO files using a program called Nrg. Iso. The best part, however, is the fact that it tells you which programs can open files with that extensions on Mac, Windows and Linux. This is mostly what people are looking to do when they are searching for a file extension, so File. Info puts that info front and center. File. Ext. Im not a huge fan of File. Ext because its got a ton of ads blended into the content to try and confuse you so that you install software to speed up your pc or scan for registry errors. Just avoid all of those links. Save-Publisher-File.png' alt='How To Open Microsoft Publisher File With Another Program Like Microsoft' title='How To Open Microsoft Publisher File With Another Program Like Microsoft' />To search for a file extension, just use the Google Custom search box at the top of the site. At the top youll see the file extension and also the file type. This is important because itll tell you what kind of file the extension is associated with. Download this app from Microsoft Store for Windows 10, Windows 8. Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8. HoloLens. See screenshots, read the latest customer reviews. To. Do this. Import a selected text or a chart from a document created in another program. Copy and paste the selected text or chart. Convert a Microsoft Office Word. Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, at COMDEX in. Create a Windows Information Protection WIP policy using the classic console for Microsoft Intune. Troubleshooting error message Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permission to access the item. In the example above,. NRG is a CD image file created by the Nero application. Skip the blue sections as those are ads and itll give you a short paragraph with more details on the program that is used to create those files. File. Ext doesnt give much more info beyond that, so thats why I listed it second. As shown above, several different programs can open the NRG file and File. Add-a-Photo-to-a-Document-Using-Microsoft-Publisher-Step-4.jpg/aid2143137-v4-728px-Add-a-Photo-to-a-Document-Using-Microsoft-Publisher-Step-4.jpg' alt='How To Open Microsoft Publisher File With Another Program Like Microsoft' title='How To Open Microsoft Publisher File With Another Program Like Microsoft' />Ext doesnt clue you into that fact. How to Open Dat Files. DAT files are so common in emails that I wrote an entire post just about opening. DAT files. DAT files arent necessarily from one program and thats why its a bit hard deciphering the best way to open them. How to Open ODT File. I have gotten an ODT file several times while at the office because its a text document, created using one of those free open source word processors like Star. Office or Open. Office. Thankfully, this is a really easy one because you can open it directly in Microsoft Word if you have that installed. On a Mac, you can open it in Text. Edit, which is included in OS X. If you dont have Office installed on a PC, you can also use Libre. Office, Lotus Notes or Word. Perfect to open the document. How to Open a RAR file. I dont know why people use RAR for compressing files, but they do, especially if you are trying to download anything off of torrent sites. Anyway, you dont have to purchase any software like Win. RAR or anything like that because there are free programs that can open RAR files just fine. Zip is my favorite file archiver and will open and extract RAR files just fine. If you have a password protected RAR file, you can read my previous post on cracking password protected RAR files. How to Open PRN file. A PRN file is what you end up getting when you check the Print to file option from Windows. Its a special file that contains the print job in a format that can be understood by the printer, such as what to print, the tray to use, the paper size, etc. Normally, when you print this file is created transparently in the background before being sent to the printer. Since the PRN file is actually the instruction set for the printer, it will contain lots of extra garbage data that you wont understand. Its almost impossible to open it in Word, Notepad, etc if you try. You can, however, use a Post. Script viewer like GSView to view the file correctly. Normally, however, if someone was intending to send the file to your electronically, you would want them to print it out to a PDF writer, etc as the Print to file option is not meant for humans to read How to Open MPP file. An MPP file is the file extension for Microsoft Project files. Sometimes people unintentionally send this file thinking that everyone has Microsoft Project installed on their computers Sadly we all do now work at places that can afford that type of luxury. Either way, there are a couple of free and commercial programs that you can use to open an MPP file. Check out this list of freepaid apps for opening Microsoft Projects files. How to Open PSF file. The PSF file extension can be one of several different types of files. If you have to open a PSF file, it is more likely than not a Photoshop Proof Setup file or a Photo. Studio Graphic. It can also be from Microsofts Picture It The first way to try an open it would be to download the Picture It Adobe Photoshop. If you dont have Photoshop, you can try a free photo viewer like Xn. View. If that doesnt work, try to rename the file extension to. JPG instead of. PSF and then open it. Some people have said this method works for opening PSF files. Also, it could be a Photo. Studio file from Arcsoft, which you can get here. That should hopefully get your file open You will need to download the trial version since its not free. How to Open MDI file. MDI stands for Microsoft Document Imaging and is usually created by the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer when you go to print files from Office. This is basically useful for printing documents in electronic format that you can then send to someone else for viewing. Sometimes Windows will not open this file type even if you have Office installed on your computer, especially if its Office 2. Microsoft Office Document Imaging is not installed by default. You can install it by following these steps Go to Control Panel and select Uninstall a program link under the Programs section. Click on Microsoft Office 2. Click on Change towards the top of the window. Select Add or Remove Features. Expand Office Tools. Click on the drop down list for Microsoft Office Document Imaging and select Run all from My Computer. Click Continue and then Close. You should now be able to open MDI files with Office 2. Windows XP or Windows Vista. How to Open VSD file. A file with a VSD file extension is a Microsoft Visio drawing. In order to view the drawing, you have to have Microsoft Visio installed on your computer. If you dont, there are several free Visio viewers that are available for free. Visio 2. 01. 0 Viewer. Visio 2. 01. 3 Viewer. Revenge Of The Spirit Rite Of Resurrection Blue Star here. Using the Visio 2. Visio documents created in Visio 5, 2. How to Open PUB file.