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 ...

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 ...

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 ...