Web word processors auto-save files You can create a keyboard shortcut that opens Google Docs or any other Web word processor. Start by opening a new document in the service.

Ankush khandelwal asked about compatibility issues between files created in different versions of Microsoft Office--specifically the big changes in file format that came with Office 2007.

Editing a .docx file on Mac This one’s easy. A .docx file will open quite happily in Word for Mac, of course, but it can also be edited in Pages, the nearest thing to a first-party Apple equivalent.

Microsoft has announced that Word for Windows will now save new files to OneDrive or preferred cloud storage automatically.

Sometimes, when you try to open a Word file it fails to open and displays the following message – Word cannot open the file because the file format does not match the file extension.

10 Ways to Open .Docx Word Files When a .docx file cannot be opened by regular means (as listed below), you might need a special tool to repair Word document.

To resolve the 'Word cannot open the existing file (Normal.dotm)' error, reset the Normal.dotm file, use Open and Repair, and disable add-ins.

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 ...

Now Microsoft Word, one of the world’s most widely used word processors, is moving closer to that model, announcing that by ...

Microsoft Word's new Open-XML-based file format provides support for new content enhancements, helps minimize the chances of data corruption, can compress file content to produce smaller documents ...

Pages will automatically convert the Word file to a new Pages file (alternatively, if the Word document has been sent via email, you can open it there and it should automatically launch in Pages).

While minimizing Excel to open an existing document in Word -- or to create a new one -- is relatively quick and simple, using Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA, you can program macros or ...