One of the features of Microsoft Word 2013 is that documents downloaded from a website or attached to emails are automatically displayed in read mode. This display mode, new to Word 2013, optimizes ...

It is the best way to open and edit Word documents without the actual Microsoft Word app. No matter whether you want to add words, add/remove images, edit bullet points/numbered lists, copy hyperlinks ...

InDesign uses layers to make up the documents that we see. Layers are like transparent pages or canvases that make up the document. When the layers come together, they make up the full document. In ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Pages is the Apple version of Microsoft Word — however, unlike Word or any of the other software that comes with a Microsoft 365 subscription, ...

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 ...

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 ...