I tested '90s Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, and only LibreOffice would open them ...

Need to edit a Microsoft Word document stored on Dropbox on your mobile device? No problem — at least not if you’re running the mobile version of Word. Before the new partnership, users of Microsoft’s ...

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The first step to collaborating in G Suite is sharing a file with your collaborators. That starts with adding the file to Google Drive. Go to drive.google.com and log in if necessary. On the top left, ...

When Microsoft rolled out Office 2013, the productivity suite promised to be deeply integrated with the cloud. And as long as you were invested in Microsoft services such as OneDrive, it was. But ...

Microsoft has revealed new filetype icons for files that can be opened with its Office apps. The new icons are meant to match the ones for the Office apps themselves, and they're rolling out now.

When you try to open an Office file that is blocked by your Registry policy settings, you may get the following error message You are attempting to save a file that ...

At a report-planning meeting last week I volunteered to add a timeline to a Word document that would ultimately become a PDF file. I could’ve used Word or Excel to create a horizontal timeline with ...

Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft switched to Office Open XML (OOXML) as the default file formats for its applications. However, the legacy .doc (Word), .xls (Excel) and .ppt (PowerPoint) file ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...