![]() ![]() Either way, there are a couple of free and commercial programs that you can use to open an MPP file.Ĭheck out this list of free/paid apps for opening Microsoft Projects 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. 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 fileĪn MPP file is the file extension for Microsoft Project files. You can, however, use a PostScript viewer like GSView to view the file correctly. It’s almost impossible to open it in Word, Notepad, etc if you try. Since the PRN file is actually the instruction set for the printer, it will contain lots of extra garbage data that you won’t understand. Normally, when you print this file is created transparently in the background before being sent to the printer. It’s 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. How to Open PRN fileĪ PRN file is what you end up getting when you check the “Print to file” option from Windows. ![]() If you have a password protected RAR file, you can read my previous post on cracking password protected RAR files. Anyway, you don’t have to purchase any software like WinRAR or anything like that because there are free programs that can open RAR files just fine.ħ-Zip is my favorite file archiver and will open and extract RAR files just fine. I don’t know why people use RAR for compressing files, but they do, especially if you are trying to download anything off of torrent sites. If you don’t have Office installed on a PC, you can also use LibreOffice, Lotus Notes or WordPerfect to open the document. On a Mac, you can open it in TextEdit, which is included in OS X. Thankfully, this is a really easy one because you can open it directly in Microsoft Word if you have that installed. I have gotten an ODT file several times while at the office because it’s a text document, created using one of those free open source word processors like StarOffice or OpenOffice. DAT files aren’t necessarily from one program and that’s why it’s a bit hard deciphering the best way to open them. How to Open Dat FilesĭAT files are so common in emails that I wrote an entire post just about opening. As shown above, several different programs can open the NRG file and FileExt doesn’t clue you into that fact. Skip the blue sections as those are ads and it’ll give you a short paragraph with more details on the program that is used to create those files.įileExt doesn’t give much more info beyond that, so that’s why I listed it second. NRG is a CD-image file created by the Nero application. This is important because it’ll tell you what kind of file the extension is associated with. To search for a file extension, just use the Google Custom search box at the top of the site.Īt the top you’ll see the file extension and also the file type. I’m not a huge fan of FileExt because it’s 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. ![]()
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