Microsoft introduced the DOCX format, which ends with the extension .docx, in 2007 as an upgrade to its popular word-processing program, Word. DOCX files' incompatibility with earlier versions of Word ...

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 ...

If your business computers run XP and you don't use Microsoft Word to manage documents, you may find the Microsoft Word Viewer useful. With this tool, you can view DOCX files without using Word. A ...

Another version of https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Office.html, another set of file-compatibility hassles. (No, really, thanks a ton, Microsoft.) Office 2007 ...

How to Use Settings to Open Microsoft 365 Files in Desktop Apps Your email has been sent Learn how to use a Microsoft 365 setting that lets you determine whether to work in an online or desktop ...

Have you ever noticed how your computer knows which program to open when you double click on a file? It doesn’t always know but most of the time it does. When it doesn’t know, your computer will ask ...

This has been a frequent complaint by users of Microsoft Office 2003 and earlier word processing software since Microsoft launched Office 2007, and introduced the .docx format. “At the beginning of ...

After we listed a few of the ways you can convert .docx to .doc in the July 2010 issue of Macworld, readers suggested a few more. An anonymous MacOSXHints.com reader reminds us of an even easier way, ...