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emf
– Enhanced Metafile format Next generation of Microsoft Windows OS
metafiles. EMF files are not supported by 16-bit Microsoft Windows
ico
– icon file
ov?
– Microsoft DOC executable files
xl*
- Microsoft Office Excel documents and files, such as:
xla
– Microsoft Of-
fice Excel add-on,
xlc
– diagram,
xlt
– document template,
xlsx
– Micro-
soft Office Excel 2007 work book,
xltm
– Microsoft Office Excel 2007
work book with macro support,
xlsb
– Microsoft Office Excel 2007 in bi-
nary (non-XML) format,
xltx
– Microsoft Office Excel 2007 template,
xlsm
– Microsoft Office Excel 2007 template with macro support,
xlam
–
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 add-on with macro support.
pp*
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint documents and files, such as:
pps
– Mi-
crosoft Office PowerPoint slide,
ppt
– presentation,
pptx
– Microsoft Of-
fice PowerPoint 2007 presentation,
pptm
– Microsoft Office PowerPoint
2007 presentation with macro support,
potx
– Microsoft Office Power-
Point 2007 presentation template,
potm
– Microsoft Office PowerPoint
2007 presentation template with macro support,
ppsx
– Microsoft Office
PowerPoint 2007 slide show,
ppsm
– Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
slide show with macro support,
ppam
– Microsoft Office PowerPoint
2007 add-on with macro support.
md*
– Microsoft Office Access documents and files, such as:
mda
– Micro-
soft Office Access work group,
mdb
– database, etc.
sldx
– a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 slide.
sldm
– a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 slide with Macro support.
thmx
– a Microsoft Office 2007 theme.
Remember that the actual format of a file may not correspond with the format
indicated in the file extension.
A.2.
Valid file exclusion masks
Let‟s look at some examples of possible masks that you can use when creating
file exclusion lists:
1. Masks without file paths:
*.exe
– all files with the extension .
exe
*.ex
?
– all files with the extension .
ex
?
,
where ? can represent any
one character
test
– all files with the name
test
2. Masks with absolute file paths:
