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For a standard Excel document, prior to Excel 2007, it is xls and xlsx is used in 2007. There are other kinds of files created by Excel, like templates which can be xlt or macros which can be xlm and xla for Add-ins, and there are other extenions. For 2007, you add x to the end of them.

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The default file extension is .xls for all the MS Excel versions up-to 2003.

And .xlsx for all the MS Excel versions from 2007.

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Excel saves files using a .xls extension (Excel 2003 and earlier) or .xlsx extenstion (Excel 2007 and later).

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.xl is the file extension for Excel documents.

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Default file extension for MS Excel 2003 & earlier versions is .xls

Default file extension for MS Excel 2007 & later versions is .xlsx

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The file extension of MS Excel is .xmls

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