Functionally, plain text excels at writing and storing information without locking it in the document. Plus, the files are ...

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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most universally recognized file formats, widely used for official documents, contracts, manuals, reports, and many other scenarios. Professionals ...

There are dozens of file formats for word processing documents, database files, graphics, spreadsheets and so on. If a file was created in one application and you want to use it in another, you can ...

Last week I gave you some useful Windows tips; this week I thought I’d continue the tips theme, and move to Microsoft Word. Actually, when you’re copying from a Web page, things get a little ...

Navigate your browser to the Zamzar website. Upload a file. You can add/upload multiple files if they are up to 100 MB in size and of the same format Now, choose the desired format for converting your ...

Back in December I posted the news that Office 2007 native file formats were incompatible with all mobile device operating systems. You could always have people save the documents in Office 2003 and ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

I'm not the first techno writer to raise the alarm about data rot, which can be described as “the tendency of computer files to become inaccessible as their storage media go to the great CompUSA in ...

If you use Microsoft Word (or a similar word processor), you probably know well enough how to save a document. You click Save, choose a folder, give the document a name, and then click Save, OK, or ...