Hidden metadata provides useful file information, but it could also endanger the privacy of your clients or employees. Microsoft Word's metadata, or document properties, stores details about files.

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

You spent a lot of time on a crucial Word document and, just when you save, your machine either shuts down or stops functioning, leaving your work unsaved. You may wonder whether can you recover an ...

If you've accidentally deleted an important Microsoft Word document, don't despair. You can often recover the document from your computer's Recycle Bin feature. You ...

In some cases, you can fix this issue by converting your Word document into another encoding. Open the document you want to convert, then click "File." Go to "Options" at the bottom of the startup ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Word will save new documents to the cloud by default.AutoSave will also be enabled by default.You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft ...

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 ...

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.