Word and Excel are part of Microsoft's Office suite of productivity software. If your small business has been using Office for a while, chances are you have hundreds if not thousands of Word and Excel ...

If you're using Microsoft Word and the document fails to save, how do you recover it? It could be a system crash, the power fails, or your laptop battery suddently dies. Whatever the scenario, if ...

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 ...