This obscure Microsoft Excel tool imports PDF data without mangling it

I don’t use Microsoft Excel all that often, so it remains a bit of a mystery to me. I can enter text and create graphs and that’s basically it. That’s why I’ve set myself a goal to learn one new Excel ...

How to do a mail merge using Microsoft Word and Excel to quickly create personalized templates for imported data

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.

How to convert PDFs into Word files and edit them on a Mac computer

To convert PDFs into Word files and on Mac, you should edit them with Google Docs or other third-party applications.

Microsoft Word will now automatically save your docs in the cloud

This week, Microsoft quietly announced a small but important change to Word. The popular word-processing software will now ...

Microsoft’s new Word tests are a direct threat to Google Docs

Word’s testing a new default that saves fresh documents to OneDrive with autosave active. It’s convenient and good for recovery, but it also nudges more files into the cloud unless you opt out.