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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although the default option that appears when you open Microsoft Word is a blank page and a blinking cursor, it's possible to create an entire Word document out of attachments and other files. You can ...

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 ...