AppleWorks and iWork are Apple's answers to Microsoft Works and Microsoft Office. Unlike some competing word processors, like Corel WordPerfect, which include formats compatible with Microsoft Word, ...

The WordPad program is a simple word processing program that is included with every copy of Windows. Even though Microsoft removed the ability to save a document in the .doc format using WordPad and ...

Users of open-source office suites like Lotus Symphony and OpenOffice know that those programs can open Microsoft Office documents, but what if you're an Office user who needs to open an Open Document ...

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 ...

This has been a frequent complaint by users of Microsoft Office 2003 and earlier word processing software since Microsoft launched Office 2007, and introduced the .docx format. “At the beginning of ...

The debate between Mac computers and PCs has been going on for decades. This can cause problems if, for example, your office uses PCs but your family uses all Apple products — especially if you want ...