RE: Linking to non HTML Resources (PDF) (Word doc) etc.

The challenge is will the average person out there know the filename extensions? I would  think not. Thus my top of thoughts is to use the product name. Microsoft Word if this was the original source product which created the downloadable material. RTF and EPub   would fall in the same category as PDF.

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From: Andrea Douglas <dougl361@umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2019 11:44 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Linking to non HTML Resources (PDF) (Word doc) etc.

I’m looking for guidance on linking to non-HTML resources in web pages, for example, pdfs, Word docs, Excel docs. Specifically, is it better to link to the format name (Word) or (Word doc) or (doc) or (docx) ?
It seems the link text for (pdf) is straightforward as it describes the_format_AND the file_extension_. However, other common links (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) the format (Word for example) is different from the file extension ( doc or docx for example).

Feedback and thoughts are appreciated.

For example:
County Resource (pdf)
County Resource (doc)