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 ...

It’s easy to automate the creation of Word documents with Quarto, a free, open-source technical publishing system that works with R, Python, and other programming languages. There are several ways to ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

Combining Microsoft Word documents can be a straightforward process if you follow these simple steps. Whether you’re merging chapters of a report or consolidating multiple drafts, the following ...

It has been 24 years since Microsoft first released Word, and four years since the program’s last major upgrade. How much more can Microsoft do to tweak its venerable word processor? Surprisingly, ...

Whenever someone brings up using PowerShell to automate an Office product, often what you may think of initially ends up being along the lines of working with Excel instead of Word. And there is good ...

Making sure your documents are accessible supports people with disabilities who may also use assistive technologies. It also makes the document more usable for everyone. In this tutorial, we'll review ...

Word will save new documents to the cloud by default. AutoSave will also be enabled by default. You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft has long been pushing ...

Microsoft Word contains a Recent Documents list that enables you to quickly find and open documents that were recently closed. This feature saves you the trouble of navigating to the document each ...

Office applications like Word periodically, and sometimes, without the consent of a user convert a file to ‘Read-only’ mode while it is being used. The change in default status can be annoying since ...

Quite a few apps, including some free ones, turn your PDFs into editable Word docs or image files that you can embed. It's easier than you may think. I've been writing about software and hardware for ...

Word and Excel are both part of the larger Microsoft package, so it's no surprise they play well together. Exce*l* is a great tool for gathering information in a database format, such as names, ...