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 is changing how Word for Windows handles file saving. With an upcoming update, new documents will automatically be saved to the cloud the moment you start working. This removes the need to ...

If you use Word or Excel to edit documents and spreadsheets on your iPad, and you need to save a copy of your file to Dropbox, then this article will show you how you can save Microsoft Office files ...

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 ...