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 ...

Any business looking for a cost-effective alternative to the Microsoft Office suite may do well to look into the open-source, free-to-download Apache OpenOffice. The suite includes a robust array of ...

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It’s been several years since Microsoft introduced a new document format in its Office 2007 suite called .Docx, but still, many people seem to wonder what .docx file is and how to open, read, and edit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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