# Table format
The table format is a file specifier for the LOAD statement that defines the file type. If nothing is specified, a .txt file is assumed.
Specified file types
| File type | Description |
| --- | --- |
| txt | In a delimited text file
the columns in the table are separated by a delimiter character.
[Delimiter](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/September2026/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Scripting/ScriptSpecifiers/delimiter.htm) |
| fix | In a fixed record file, each field
is exactly a certain number of characters.
Typically, many fixed record
length files contains records separated by a linefeed, but there are more advanced options to specify record size in bytes or to span over more than one line with Record is.
[Record is](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/September2026/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Scripting/ScriptSpecifiers/record-is.htm)
Information noteIf the data contains multi-byte characters, field breaks can become misaligned as the format is based on a fixed length in bytes. |
| dif | In a .dif
file, (Data Interchange Format) a special format for defining the table
is used. |
| biff | QlikView can also interpret data in standard Excel files by means
of the biff format (Binary Interchange
File Format). |
| ooxml | Excel 2007 and later versions use the ooxml .xslx format. |
| html | If the table is part of an html page or file, html should be used. |
| xml | xml (Extensible Markup Language) is a common markup language that is used to represent data structures in a textual format. |
| qvd | The format qvd is
the proprietary QVD files format,
exported from a QlikView document. |
| qvx | qvx is a file/stream format for high performance output to QlikView. |
## Learn more
* [Load](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/September2026/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Scripting/ScriptRegularStatements/Load.htm)
* [QVD files](https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/September2026/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/QVD_files.htm)