One of the features of Microsoft Word 2013 is that documents downloaded from a website or attached to emails are automatically displayed in read mode. This display mode, new to Word 2013, optimizes ...

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 ...

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 Word is capable of opening many document file formats, including those produced by WordPerfect Version 11. While Word will open these files, they may not display correctly due to data ...

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 ...