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Used for text and layout. Examples include PDF (Portable Document Format) for universal viewing and DOCX for editing.

Long before Silicon Valley, a "file" was a physical object. The word comes from the Latin filum , meaning "thread." In early record-keeping, documents were literally strung together on a thread to keep them in order. Used for text and layout

These are the "action" files. On Windows, these end in .exe ; they contain the instructions to run software. meaning "thread." In early record-keeping