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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of File Converter’s strongest selling points is the number of formats it supports (for both input and output) across audio, video, images, and documents. You might assume it handles only common ...

Microsoft Works is the smaller cousin of Microsoft Office. Works is not as expensive as the full Office suite yet it still contains a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft Office standards chief Jim Thatcher quietly announced that Microsoft would add ”two additional formats for use: Strict Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2. … [and] ...

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 ...