Hidden metadata provides useful file information, but it could also endanger the privacy of your clients or employees. Microsoft Word's metadata, or document properties, stores details about files.

You spent a lot of time on a crucial Word document and, just when you save, your machine either shuts down or stops functioning, leaving your work unsaved. You may wonder whether can you recover an ...

In some cases, you can fix this issue by converting your Word document into another encoding. Open the document you want to convert, then click "File." Go to "Options" at the bottom of the startup ...

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 ...

If you've accidentally deleted an important Microsoft Word document, don't despair. You can often recover the document from your computer's Recycle Bin feature. You ...

Microsoft has long been pushing Office and OneDrive users to save their documents to the cloud by default. Now, the company is getting even more aggressive with a feature coming to Microsoft Word.

Follow these suggestions to try and repair a corrupt Word file to an extent. You can apply these if there is a layout issue, a Word document stuck on opening ...

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 ...