If you've been accustomed to opening files from newer versions of Microsoft Word in older versions of the software, the error messages you see when you try to open ...

My Scientific American column this month concerned a sneaky problem that not many people are paying attention to: file-format rot. That’s when our digital files become unopenable not because their ...

It is the best way to open and edit Word documents without the actual Microsoft Word app. No matter whether you want to add words, add/remove images, edit bullet ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

Microsoft Works is the smaller cousin of Microsoft Office. Works is not as expensive as the full Office suite yet it still contains a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system ...

The debate between Mac computers and PCs has been going on for decades. This can cause problems if, for example, your office uses PCs but your family uses all Apple products — especially if you want ...