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 ...

Those old .doc Word files that you're used to have been around for years, and are used by just about everybody. There's something wonderful about this ubiquity—if you send a .doc file to someone, you ...

If you've been accustomed to opening files from newer versions of Microsoft Word in older versions of the software, the error messages you see when you try to open ...

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 ...

I have Googled and Binged, without finding a satisfactory resolution (although I did find a LOT of speculative and unsubstantiated bullshit on the MS support forums, a depressing amount of it ...