Probably Word or PDF
It's a copy of your Cv in electronic format e.g Microsoft Word format document
PDF (Portable Document Format), developed by Adobe Systems.
Pdf and xps
To scan a document into electronic format is to have it electronically available. The you can email the copy, upload it online or change it as you wish.
From Microsoft's Web site:An XML Paper Specification (XPS) document is a document format you can use to view, save, share, digitally sign, and protect your document's content. An XPS document is like to an electronic sheet of paper: you can't change the content on a piece of paper after you print it, and you can't edit the contents of an XPS document after you save it in the XPS format. In this version of Windows, you can create an XPS document in any program you can print from, but you can only view, sign, and set permissions for XPS documents in the XPS Viewer.[Note: The format serves a similar function to Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format).]
Portable Document Format was created in 1993.
Open Office files are saved as 'open document format' - Most of the popular office suites can read open document formats. If your friends computer can't read .odt format documents, ask them what program they use, then save your document as (for example) .doc
What is the difference between an academic paper format and a business document format?
Computable Document Format was created on 2011-07-21.
By "electronic copy" one usually means an image of a document so that it may be stored on a computer system. Adobe's .pdf format is very common for this type of representation, but it is by no means the only choice. The term can also refer to any computer representation of the material contained in the document, including textual form or a Word-processing document.
XPS (XML Paper Specification) is a standardised open format similar to PDF (Portable Document Format).