Microsoft introduced the DOCX format, which ends with the extension .docx, in 2007 as an upgrade to its popular word-processing program, Word. DOCX files' incompatibility with earlier versions of Word ...

Microsoft Word is a very useful piece of software for writers, who need custom formatting as well as a good environment to write text. Earlier, you only had the desktop version, but now you can also ...

The modern digitalised world has made it more convenient to work online. The internet also helps many individuals who do not have to install any heavy software on their devices since the web offers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Have you encountered a Word file corruption issue with a notice: “Word experienced an error trying to open the file”? Microsoft Word will offer three solutions to ...

Reader Jim Harper feels like Word 2008 has severed his ties with the past. He writes: I’m running Tiger and when I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008 from Office 2004 I cannot open Word files created ...