Writer online word processor, with a look mimicking DOS-based text editors running on a green-phosphor display, makes it easy to create and return to a text file, with no sign-in. Dennis O'Reilly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps.

Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps. However, the biggest ...

Here’s a quick trick that lets you open files in the application you want, even the app in question thinks it can’t understand that file type. This can be useful with some older word processing files, ...

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 ...

If Microsoft Word gets stuck on Processing when opening or saving, the solutions provided in this article will surely help you. This issue usually occurs with Word documents saved in OneDrive.

Discovering you are unable to access an important document because it is corrupt can be distressing, but if it is a Microsoft Works word processor file, you may be able to recover it or at least the ...

This post will show you how to open a .WPS Works file on a Windows 11/10 computer. Earlier, it was pretty easy to open a WPS file using MS Word (2003 or newer version) with the help of a free tool ...