Microsoft Word is the world's leading word processing application, and documents created in the program are saved in a proprietary format. Even though these .docx or .doc files are native to Word, it ...

To learn more about these steps, continue reading. Here you need to ensure that the Open selected file types in Protected View option is selected. Then, tick all the Open checkboxes of old Word ...

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 points/numbered lists, copy hyperlinks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google Docs is a deceptively powerful tool for writing and editing documents. When all you have is a blank page, it may look simple, but you have access to easy notation and markup options, charts, ...

One of the banes of modern working life comes about when trying to collaborate remotely with colleagues using different software. Mac users pick up a spreadsheet, presentation deck or word-processing ...

Google Docs sits at the center of the world of cloud-based productivity. Its success is due, in part, to its accessibility and flexibility. You can write, edit, and ...

LibreOffice is one of the best open-source office suites on the market. I use it regularly and have found it to perfectly suit many of my use cases. I prefer it over most other similar tools not only ...

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 ...