Learn how to change the default file format for saves in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, so that you do not need to change it every time.

Convert old Word document into latest Word format The previous editions of Microsoft Word used .doc file format to save the documents as the default file format.

How to Change DOCM Files to DOC. The DOCM file format was introduced in Microsoft Word 2007 as an improvement to the previous DOC format. DOCM uses Extensible Markup Lanugage, or XML, for better ...

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 ...

Microsoft Word 2016 for Windows has a basic feature that lets you save documents in several different, but common, file formats. Here’s how to use it.