# Verity Supported File Types

The ColdFusion Verity implementation supports a wide array of document types. This means you can index Web pages, ColdFusion applications, and many binary document types and produce search results that include summaries of these documents.

The following table lists the supported document types.

Supported Document Types
Documents | Versions
--- | ---
Text files
HTML, CFML, DBM, SGML, XML, | N/A
ANSI, ASCII, Plain Text | N/A
Word processors
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Adobe FrameMaker (MIF) Aplix Words Corel WordPerfect for Windows Corel WordPerfect for Macintosh Lotus AMI Pro Lotus AMI Pro Write Plus Lotus Word Pro Microsoft Office MS Rich Text Format (RTF) MS Word for Windows MS Word for DOS MS Word for Macintosh MS Notepad, WordPad MS Write, MS Works XYWrite | All All 4.2 5.x 6, 7, 8 2, 3 2, 3 all 96, 97 95, 97 1.x, 2.0 2, 6, 95, 97 4, 5, 6 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 all all 4.12
Spreadsheets
Corel QuattroPro Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS/Windows Lotus 1-2-3 for OS/2 MS Excel MS Works | 7, 8 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, '96, '97 2 3, 4, 5, '95, '97 all
Presentation
Corel Presentations Lotus Freelance MS PowerPoint | 7.0, 8.0 96, 97 4.0, 95, 97

| To create an index of data from a directory:

1. Create a collection in the Administrator.
2. If not already selected in the list of collections, select the collection you want to populate and click Index.
3. Edit the list of file extensions, if necessary.
4. Enter a directory path you want to index in the form:
5. Enter a URL to return for documents returned in a search operation against this collection. For example, if you are indexing the ColdFusion documentation directory and subdirectories, the directory you index could be `c:\inetpub\wwwroot\cfdocs`. You would enter the return URL as:

       http://my_server/cfdocs/

6. Click Index. ColdFusion populates the collection with data from the specified directory.

Note that Verity collections, including those that index query data, can be created using the CFCOLLECTION tag, and can be populated using the CFINDEX tag in your ColdFusion application pages.