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 ...

Need to rename a bunch of files in Windows? File Explorer can help. But you’ll find more options with the PowerToys PowerRename tool or a third-party utility. Lance is an experienced writer who tries ...

Microsoft Word word processing software has grown increasingly more diversified as new editions have been released. Versions of the software from Word 2013 forward, including Word 2016, Word 2019 and ...

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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 ...