Google Docs is an online office suite that is offered free from Google. You can create, upload, transfer and save documents using the productivity software in the ...

You can integrate Google Drive and Microsoft Office so you can share files online for real-time collaboration.

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 ...

There’s also an open-source utility for the job that I’ve been using constantly: Pandoc. Pandoc calls itself "a universal document converter," with support for dozens of markup formats and 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 ...

Microsoft Works is the smaller cousin of Microsoft Office. Works is not as expensive as the full Office suite yet it still contains a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system ...

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 ...