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 ...

Locate the .doc file you want to open on the computer's hard drive, highlight it and click the "Open" button to open the document in the WordPad program.

As it turns out, Word can open many kinds of older Word documents—but only if you make a few changes. (Out of the box, Word refuses to open document types that could contain viruses.) ...

Learn how to open and edit Word document without Word. Convert to PDF, open in Google Docs and Dropbox, use browser to open, etc.

Click "Open" to open the Works document in Word. If you want to make changes to the document, you need to save the file as a Word document by clicking "File," then "Save As" and then saving the ...

Office 2013 will, after years, finally fully support Open Document Format, Adobe's PDF, and, oh yes, Microsoft's own Open XML document standard.

Hey all. I'm trying to set up my grandfather under OS X with a copy of AppleWorks 6.2. He wants to be able to open .doc files that other people send him. AppleWorks can do this pretty easily if ...

Some claim that Microsoft made the move to compete with Open Document Format (.odf) files, an open source format that is popular, especially outside the United States.

You can open a Microsoft Word document in Pages if you don't have Word on your Mac computer. Here's how to do it.