Key Terms

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Chapter: 02. File Management Organisation Of Data

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Data: Whatever we do or save on a computer, like documents, songs, images, presentations, or excel sheets.

File: An individual piece of saved data on a computer, such as a document, song, image, or presentation.

Folder: A digital container used to group and save files of the same category together.

File Explorer: A tool in Windows that helps to organize and manage files and folders.

Drive: A storage box inside a computer, typically a partition of the hard disk, where all files and folders are kept.

Partition: Smaller parts of a computer’s hard disk, also known as drives, which make it easier to access files and folders.

Copying (a file/folder): The process of creating a duplicate of a file or folder at a new location, while keeping the original at its initial location.

Moving (a file/folder): The process of transferring a file or folder from its original location to a new location, thereby removing it from the original spot.

Writing of data: The process of transferring data from one storage device to another storage device.

Sorting: The process of arranging files and folders on the computer in different ways, such as by name, size, type, or date.

Wildcard character: A special character used in search queries to represent one or more characters when the exact file/folder name is unknown.

Asterisk (*): A wildcard character used in searching to replace a string of one or more characters in the search term.

Question Mark (?): A wildcard character used in searching to replace a single character or symbol in the search term.

Using Multiple Applications: The ability to open and work on more than one application or file simultaneously in Windows.

File Format: The type of a file, which determines how data is stored and is identified by its file extension.

File Extension: A group of three or more characters, appearing after the file name, used to identify the type or format of a file.

JPEG: A file format (Joint Photographic Experts Group) used to store image files (.jpeg, .jpg, .jpe).

MP4: A file format (MPEG-4 video file) used to store multimedia content, including audio, video, movies, and images (.mp4).

MP3: An audio file format (Moving Pictures Expert Group) primarily used to store music files (.mp3).

DOCX: A file format used to save Microsoft Word documents, storing text, images, pictures, and tables (.docx).

XLSX: A file format used to store spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel, containing tables, rows, columns, images, charts, and formulas (.xlsx).

PPTX: A file format used to store presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, saving data in the form of slides (.pptx).

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