A good answer might be:

No. At the hardware level each file is a collection of bytes.

Text Files

MS Word uses some byte patterns to indicate formatting and font information. Notepad is not written to deal with this information and will not work correctly with a file that contains it. This is somewhat like a book written in English and a book written in Latin. The same book shelf could hold both books and both books use the same characters printed on paper. But there is a software difference between the books.

A text file is a file that contains bytes that represent characters, and a limited number of other bytes that represent ends of lines, tabs, and a few other control characters. A text file contains bytes that represent:

Text files are the easiest type of files for a program to deal with.

QUESTION 6:

What type of file does the program Notepad create?