The WordPad program is a simple word processing program that is included with every copy of Windows. Even though Microsoft removed the ability to save a document in the .doc format using WordPad and ...

We have Vista Home Basic running Word 8. No one is able to open our Windows Mail email attachments sent in Word. Why should this be? We also have difficulty opening many of our in-coming e-mail ...

While Office Word will always save in DOCX format, but the default save options may have changed. To change it, click on Save As > browser, and then from the dropdown, select Docx instead of RTF. Once ...

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 ...

While Microsoft Word uses the DOC and DOCX formats for document files, its competitor, Apache's OpenOffice Writer, uses the ODT format. Previously, these two files ...

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 ...

This has been a frequent complaint by users of Microsoft Office 2003 and earlier word processing software since Microsoft launched Office 2007, and introduced the .docx format. “At the beginning of ...

The Windows vs Mac debate isn’t a new one, but now more than ever people find themselves working between the two operating systems, be it for work or play. We can also assume that those working ...

Users of open-source office suites like Lotus Symphony and OpenOffice know that those programs can open Microsoft Office documents, but what if you're an Office user who needs to open an Open Document ...

Hey all. I'm trying to set up my grandfather under OS X with a copy of AppleWorks 6.2. He wants to be able to open .doc files that other people send him. AppleWorks can do this pretty easily if you ...