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MapInfo geometry or atribute data file
File type: GIS, GPS navigation and map file
Files with tab file extension can be found as some sort of geometry or attribute packages from MapInfo GIS and mapping software for Windows.
Found 13 different file type records with the same tab filename suffix.
What is tab file?
File type category:
GIS, GPS navigation and map file
Date updated: March 24, 2024
The tab file extension is mainly related with MapInfo mapping software product for Microsoft Windows and used for its main default format.
This type of tab files stores both feature geometry and attributes. It is ASCII file that represents a link between all other files from MapInfo data set and also holds information about the type of this data set.
How to open tab file?
Primarly use MapInfo to work with these *.tab files.
How to convert tab file?
If any export or conversion is possible, it would be as part of whole map file.
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Associated software actions with the tab file
Programs for viewing tab files:
ArcGIS for Desktop Basic (ArcView) (Microsoft Windows)
Software apps that convert tab files:
MyGeodata Cloud (On-line services)
Software apps that import tab files:
Total GIS Converter (Microsoft Windows)
QGIS (Multiplatform)
Software apps that export tab files:
Terrain Navigator (Microsoft Windows)
QGIS (Multiplatform)
Software applications that handle other tasks involving tab files:
MapInfo (Microsoft Windows)
3D top and bottom movie
File type category:
Digital video and movie file
Date updated: July 13, 2025
The tab file extension is associated with 3D effect used to visualize 3D movies known as Top and Bottom (TAB).
The TAB seems to be shortcut, videos are stored in standard video formats like flv, mp4, mkv etc.
Various Top and Bottom (TAB) videos are available for example on popular video sharing services, like Youtube, Vimeo etc.
How to open tab file?
Use compatible tools to playback *.tab files.
How to convert tab file?
Probably can be exported to other formats.
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Associated software actions with the tab file
Apps designed for playing tab files:
VLC media player (Microsoft Windows)
VLC media player for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
VLC media player for Linux (Linux/Unix)
Autodesk TR-55 tabular hydrograph
File type category:
3d graphics, CAD-CAM-CAE file
Date updated: July 27, 2017
The tab file extension is associated with some applications, such as AutoCAD Civil, AutoCAD and others developed by Autodesk.
The tab file contains TR-55 tabular hydrograph. File is in binary format.
How to open tab file?
Use compatible tools to work with *.tab files.
How to convert tab file?
Compatible tools may be able to export *.tab files to other formats.
Suggested software to open tab file:
Associated software actions with the tab file
Software applications that can open tab files:
Autodesk Civil 3D (Multiplatform)
Software applications that can edit tab files:
Autodesk Civil 3D (Multiplatform)
Software capable of saving tab files:
Autodesk Civil 3D (Multiplatform)
Software apps that create tab files:
Autodesk Civil 3D (Multiplatform)
Avalanche Studios game data
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: January 28, 2019
The tab file extension is associated with various computer games, like Mad Max and Just Cause based on Avalanche Engine and developed by Avalanche Studios for various platforms.
The tab file stores some kind of information related to Avalanche Studios game archives (arc file extension).
Avalanche Studios games:
- Just Cause
- The Hunter
- Just Cause 2
- Renegade Ops
- The Hunter: Primal
- Rumble City
- Mad Max
- Just Cause 3
- Final Fantasy XV
How to open tab file?
You cannot open this file type manually, it is accessed by the game automatically.
How to convert tab file?
These games files cannot be converted to anything else. However, sometimes modding.
Suggested software to open tab file:
Associated software actions with the tab file
Software applications that handle other tasks involving tab files:
Just Cause 2 (Microsoft Windows)
ArchiveViewer (Microsoft Windows)
Mad Max (Multiplatform)
Just Cause 3 (Multiplatform)
GPS Pathfinder Office station or session table
File type category:
GIS, GPS navigation and map file
Date updated: November 26, 2010
TAB file suffix is associated with GPS Pathfinder Office. GPS Pathfinder Office software enables pre-plan field sessions for more productive field work. File contains station or session table.
Suggested software to open tab file:
Associated software actions with the tab file
Software applications that handle other tasks involving tab files:
GPS Pathfinder Office (Microsoft Windows)
Guitar tablature
File type category:
Text file
Date updated: December 31, 2024
File extension tab is also used for the ASCII text guitar tablature format, a text file that contains song lyrics and guitar tabs.
Guitar tablature, also known as tablature, is a type of musical notation that is primarily used for fretted stringed instruments like the guitar. In a tab file, each line represents a string on the guitar, and the numbers on the line represent the frets where the musician should place their fingers. For instance, a "0" indicates that the string should be played open, a "1" indicates that the first fret should be pressed, and so on.
How to open tab file?
Best to be opened using guitar tablature software, but you can use any editor to open .tab files.
How to convert tab file?
Tablatures can be exported to MusicXML or Midi.
Associated software actions with the tab file
Software apps that import tab files:
MuseScore (Microsoft Windows)
Rosegarden (Linux/Unix)
Harmony Assistant (Multiplatform)
TuxGuitar (Multiplatform)
Melody Assistant (Multiplatform)
Software apps that export tab files:
Melody Assistant (Multiplatform)
Lotus Notes full text index
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: May 21, 2019
The tab file extension is associated with Lotus Notes. The tab file contains full text index.
An index file is helpful if records are large: the keys and indexes can be extracted, sorted, and the original file accessed faster than the original file could be rearranged into sorted order. Also if the file needs to be accessed by different keys at the same time, it cannot be sorted by all of them. So a index file is maintained for each different key.
How to open tab file?
Probably not meant to be accessed by the user.
How to convert tab file?
Probably cannot be converted to anything else.
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Associated software actions with the tab file
Software apps that create tab files:
IBM Notes (Lotus Notes) (Microsoft Windows)
Software applications that handle other tasks involving tab files:
IBM Notes (Lotus Notes) (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft SQL table script
File type category:
Source code and script file
Date updated: September 9, 2024
The tab file extension is associated with Microsoft SQL Server, a relational database management system for Microsoft Windows Server operating system.
The tab file stores table script written for Microsoft SQL Server.
How to open tab file?
Use Visual Studio to open *.tab files.
How to convert tab file?
Probably cannot be converted to other formats.
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Associated software actions with the tab file
Software applications that can open tab files:
Microsoft SQL Server (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
Software applications that can edit tab files:
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
Software capable of saving tab files:
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
Software apps that create tab files:
Microsoft SQL Server (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Visual Studio (Multiplatform)
Tab separated value
File type category:
Text file
Database file
Date updated: November 7, 2024
The tab file extension is also related to a specially formatted text format - tab separated value format.
Tab separated file is a very simple textual data format which allows tabular data to be exchanged between applications that use different internal data formats. The more common suffix for this format is tsv extension.
Some old spreadsheet programs (Lotus 1-2-3 etc.) in the past used the very same format for their file types. Also for example used as export format for data output from some molecular chemistry programs, like old Insight II.
How to open tab file?
Tab file is readable by any text editor. To work with data you need some tools, that parse tabular data and imports this file format like e.g. Microsoft Access or some database management tools.
How to convert tab file?
Tab separated files can be converted to other specially formatted files like CSV, or perhaps spreadsheets or even database formats.
Associated software actions with the tab file
Software applications that can open tab files:
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
Lotus 1-2-3 (Microsoft Windows)
Software applications that can edit tab files:
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
Software capable of saving tab files:
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
Programs for viewing tab files:
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
Software apps that import tab files:
Microsoft Access (Microsoft Windows)
Insight II (Linux/Unix)
Software apps that export tab files:
Microsoft Access (Microsoft Windows)
Insight II (Linux/Unix)
ThinBASIC Adventure Builder adventure data file
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: September 23, 2015
The tab file extension is associated with the ThinBASIC Adventure Builder an interactive fiction and text adventure maker for Microsoft Windows operating system.
The tab file contains adventure data for Adventure Builder.
Typinator settings
File type category:
Settings, options, themes or skins file
Date updated: May 2, 2017
The tab file extension is associated with the Typinator, a typing shortcut software for Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Ergonis Software.
The tab file contains settings from Typinator program.
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Associated software actions with the tab file
Software apps that manage settings for tab files:
Typinator (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
UFO: Enemy Unknown game data
File type category:
Game file
Date updated: February 1, 2017
The tab file extension related to the UFO: Enemy Unknown, a turn-based strategic computer game for MS-DOS and Amiga computers, developed by Microprose.
The tab file stores terrain data for UFO: Enemy Unknown.
There is original version of UFO: Enemy Unknown running on Microsoft Windows via DOSBox available to purchase on Steam distribution service.
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Software applications that handle other tasks involving tab files:
X-COM: UFO Defense (UFO: Enemy Unknown) (Microsoft MS-DOS)
WAsP observed wind climate
File type category:
Various data file
Date updated: May 2, 2017
The tab file extension is associated with the WAsP. The observed wind climate file contains the frequencies of occurrence of the wind in a number of sectors (the wind rose) and wind speed bins.
How to open tab file?
Use WAsP to work with *.tab files.
How to convert tab file?
Conversion to other formats is not possible.
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Associated software actions with the tab file
Software applications that can open tab files:
WAsP (Microsoft Windows)
Software apps that create tab files:
WAsP (Microsoft Windows)
Software applications that handle other tasks involving tab files:
WAsP (Microsoft Windows)