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Generic file formats allow files to be opened across different platforms and include common file types like .csv, .txt, .rtf, .gif, .jpg, .pdf, .png, .mp4, .mp3, .css, .html, and .rar. These formats compress files to reduce size for storage and transmission or provide a standard format for images, audio, documents and code that can be read by any device without proprietary software.

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Generic file formats allow files to be opened across different platforms and include common file types like .csv, .txt, .rtf, .gif, .jpg, .pdf, .png, .mp4, .mp3, .css, .html, and .rar. These formats compress files to reduce size for storage and transmission or provide a standard format for images, audio, documents and code that can be read by any device without proprietary software.

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File Management
What is generic file type
• Generic file formats allow you to save files so that they can be opened
on any platform.
• Excel spreadsheet(.xlsx), word processor/documents(.docx),Access
databases(.accdb)are not generic file format.
Generic text files
• Comma separate values: .csv file extension
• Text: .txt file extension
• Rich Text Format: .rtf extension
Generic image files(1/2)
• Graphic interchange format
• .gif file extension
• Store still image or moving image
• Joint Photographic expert group
• .jpg .jpeg file extension
• Store still image only
• Not moving image
• Portable document format
• .pdf file extension
• This is a document that has been converted into an image format
Generic image files(2/2)
• Portable network graphics
• .png file extension
• Compress graphic file without any loss of image quality
• Lossless compression format
• Moving picture experts group layer 4
• .mp4
• It is a multimedia container
• It is used for storing video files, still image, audio files, subtitles.
Generic Audio files
• Moving Picture experts group layer 3
• .mp3 file extension
• It is a compressed file format used for storing audio files.
Generic file used for website authoring
• Cascading style sheet
• .css file extension
• It is a stylesheet attached to one or more webpage
• Hyper text markup language
• .html file extension
• Text-base language which is used to created markup that a web browser will
be able to display information as a web page.
Generic Compressed File
• Roshal archive
• .rar file extension
• This is a container that can hold almost any file types in a compressed format.
• To reduce the number of bytes/file size
• To save storage space
• To reduce transmission time when sent from one device to another.

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