All about TBL Files

The TBL file type is primarily associated with Text Editor.

TBL	File extension: TBL
	File type:	table file

What is a TBL file?

TBL files mostly belong to Text Editor.

This TBL file can store tabular data or be used as an internal file for games. It may contain rows and columns like a simple table.
When the file is text‐based, it often uses a structure similar to a tab separated values format. You can open it with a text editor or a spreadsheet application.
Some TBL files also serve as game data files, used by titles such as Pokémon Diamond/Pearl (Pokémon) or Guitar Hero 5 (Activision). Others store data like 3D model textures for games (for example, in Minecraft-related mods) or configuration data for specialized software.
A few TBL files are employed by data acquisition and analysis tools such as Logger Pro (Logger Pro) and LabVolt Data Acquisition Software, and even in SQL tools like Teradata SQL Assistant (Teradata).
Very few people know that some TBL files incorporate ZIP compression or use custom binary formats, which makes them harder to edit without the right tool.

Tips:

Open the file with a text editor to see if it is plain text.

If the content is in rows and delimiters, try a spreadsheet program.

For game-related files, look for tools or documentation provided by the game developer.

Search online using the related software names if the file does not open normally.

How to open TBL files

You need a suitable software like Text Editor to open a TBL file. Without proper software you will receive a Windows message "How do you want to open this file?" or "Windows cannot open this file" or a similar Mac/iPhone/Android alert. If you cannot open your TBL file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file. Then click "Open with" and choose an application. You can also display a TBL file directly in the browser:. Just drag the file onto this browser window and drop it.

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Programs that open and convert TBL files:

Text Editor
See the previous paragraphs to learn more about the main application. TBL files are often referred to as Text Editor data files because this type of file is primarily created or used by this software.
ArcView (Geocoding Support Table) by ESRI
Related links: GIS Info
Generic Table
Insight II (Graph Data File) by Accelrys Software Inc.
Insight II is a molecular modeling environment that provides a graphical interface to algorithms for molecular dynamics, homology modeling, de novo design, and electrostatics.
Mozilla (Netscape) (Excluded Fill Form Data Sites) by Mozilla.org
File: URL.TBL
OS/2 Table of Values
PageMaker (Import Mapping Table) by Adobe Systems Incorporated
Pro/ENGINEER by PTC
Pro/ENGINEER is a 3D product design product, featuring productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance with your industry and company standards. The identifying characters used for this association are - Hex: 23 55 47 43 3A 32 20, ASCII: #UGC:2.
Starcraft Information Table
TrialDirector (Toolbar File) by inData Corporation
TrialDirectorTM is inData’s leading-edge trial presentation software. With TrialDirector, you can view, manage, search, and prepare case exhibits and depositions, and then orchestrate them into a compelling trial presentation. Indexing tools allow you to organize and annotate information by client, issue, witness, or any other logical criteria, then easily stage the information for presentation during trial. The Presentation mode enables you to blend drawings, photos, text, and videos with the ease of a Hollywood director, and lets you adjust, annotate, or amplify in the courtroom.

TBL file format:

The file format, which is the arrangement and type of data in a file, determines which program can open the file. The initial characters of a file are called signature, sometimes also referred to as "magic bytes". The signature can be used to infer the file format. Nonetheless, different programs can utilize the same file extension to represent distinct file formats. Double-clicking on the file often results in an error when opening. So a detailed analysis of a file is vital in order to determine the format and the associated program. In the following you will find our evaluation of the TBL files:

The TBL extension is very commonly used. This TBL file itself is among the most popular common file types and covers a large number of different file formats. But the following two file formats are common:

5% of all TBL files start with the bytes L&C, which are crucial for this file format. They consist of illegible, cryptic characters. TBL files are between 990 bytes and 620 KB in size. It is a modern file type. The following filename is common: Skill_Magic_Main_us.tbl or ACHIEVE_com.tbl. These files can be linked to item, magic, skill, achieve, exchange and zones.
5% of all TBL files internally utilize the .NET file format. The .NET format is used to save Microsoft .NET Framework objects to a file (ex. save game state as file) via object serialization. Such a .NET object may contain functions and data like settings, images or videos. If you open these files in a text editor, you can view the contents and find segments of text. Most of these files are 31 KB to 33 KB in size. The following keywords are characteristic: Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null, Version, instrument0, item0, nbrCol, nbrRow, unit0, width0, JLVDataTable and /LabVolt.Instruments.LVDataTable.LVDataTableFilex. The following filename is common: DT611.tbl. Files like these are about table, data, document and step.

All the rest of the TBL files (90%) have different formats, the following 20 formats exist: PageMaker Table, Binary Unicode conversion Table, ZIP, AHTB, Data, TABLE, TRTS, OOCH, Ghost, FTABLE and Name. Often described as event, list, user, string, trans or spec. If you want to find out which format your TBL file belongs to, just click on the button "Choose your .tbl file to analyze".

Technical Data for TBL File Extension

File classification:

Data

Related files:

tsv, hdr00, tlb, acme, n3chr, zip, table, dat, txt, z, xml, dxt, btl, mtx, 1, idx, xlsx, tpl, dai, pkd, tbi, tfw, bip, bil, csv

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GIS Info

Mime type:

application/octet-stream, text/plain

The following listing is compiled from the database produced by the 'Associate This!' program, selected data from the main FILExt database and file extension information submitted by users.

ProgramID: AdobeTable3.TableObject, FileType: Adobe® Table 3.0, AppName: Table30

ProgramID: AdobeTable.TableObject
EXEFile: C:\PM6\TABLE25\TABLE25.EXE %1

ProgramID: AdobeTable3.TableObject
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\Adobe\PageMaker

ProgramID: AdobeTable3.TableObject
EXEFile: C:\PM65\TABLE30\Table30.EXE%1

ProgramID: AdobeTable3.TableObject
EXEFile: C:\PM65C\EXTRAS\TABLE30C\Table30C.EXE %1

ProgramID: MXtbl
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\mfw\pfe\pfe32.exe %1

ProgramID: AdobeTable3.TableObject
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\Adobe\PM65\TABLE30\Table30.EXE%1

ProgramID: AdobeTable3.TableObject
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\adobe\page maker\EXTRAS\TABLE30\Table30.EXE%1

ProgramID: SimpleGraph.Document
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\RENEGA~1\LEVELE~1\SIMPLE~1.EXE %1

ProgramID: AdobeTable3.TableObject
EXEFile: E:\PM5\te.exe %1

ProgramID: SDDocuments.Chart2dDocument.1
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\Accelrys\MS Modeling 3.2\Studio\MatStudio.exe

ProgramID: CSProTextView.Document
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\CSPRO3~1.1\TextView.exe

ProgramID: AdobeTable3.TableObject
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\Adobe\PageMaker 7.0\Table30\TABLE30.EXE

ProgramID: hidemaru.tbl
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\Hidemaru\Hidemaru.exe

ProgramID: Table.Document
EXEFile: %ProgramFiles%\CHEMOF~1\Chem3D\TBLEDIT.EXE

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a tbl table file is a special file format and should only be edited and saved with the appropriate software.

How to solve problems with TBL files

Associate the TBL file extension with the correct application.
Update your software that should actually open table files. Because only the current version supports the latest TBL file format. Search, therefore, e.g. on the manufacturer website after an available Text Editor update.
To make sure that your TBL file is not corrupted or virus-infected, get the file again and scan it with Google's virustotal.com.
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