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 ...

Your business' Word documents likely use one of two extensions. DOC Word files were likely created with an older version of Microsoft Word, whereas DOCX and DOCM ...

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 ...