You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

Microsoft PowerPoint is a useful tool for making presentations, but it's sometimes useful to convert a PowerPoint presentation to another format, such as Microsoft Word. This enables you to use Word's ...

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 ...

Microsoft updates Copilot in PowerPoint to allow Windows users to create new slides from files or documents, and even give them prompts.