Files DO have Extensions

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For some reason, the powers that be thought that the general public was going to be confused by those suffixes at the end of file names.

To help us all out, they hid extensions by default.

I like to see .Doc (or .Docx). Here's how to get that information back

1. Open Windows Explorer
   
   
2. Go to Tools>Folder Options.
   
   
3. In the Folder Options dialog box, click the View tab
   
   
4. Clear the checkbox to the left of the Hide extensions for known file types option
   
   
5. Click OK to close the dialog box and return to Windows Explorer
   

Also see EdBott.com:
 Show or hide file name extensions

and
Configure Windows



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