Microsoft Office remains the default ecosystem for most of that work, which is why perpetual licenses are still worth the investment.

Company joins project designed to bridge rival document formats and thus enable its OpenOffice customers to work with Microsoft Office. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Although it's hard to come by cold, hard numbers on the amount of those using Google Docs or Apps, research firm IDC reported in July of this year that of companies surveyed, Google Docs was being ...

If you accidentally closed an Office document without saving it, or maybe a Word document you've been working on crashed, don't panic. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary ...

Microsoft will finally better respect IT pro decisions about macros, ActiveX content and Office add-ins in e-mailed Office documents, according to a new security policy that'll be arriving in "early ...

Back in November 2021, Microsoft announced its most ambitious addition to the Office suite in years, though it’s taken until now to publicly launch the thing. The new arrival is called Microsoft Loop, ...

In context: OpenDocument is an ISO standardized format for saving word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics using ZIP compression and XML metadata. ODF is the native file ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

You may get an error prompt displaying the error message Microsoft Office cannot open this file because some parts are missing or invalid when you try to open a Word ...

Microsoft Word is still the most ubiquitous office productivity program out there, but it's time to stop bothering with it, ...

LibreOffice developer The Document Foundation says Microsoft’s OOXML format keeps users locked into the Office ecosystem.

Microsoft is rolling out a service-side fix for a classic Outlook bug that made shared Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files open blank, with browser-based workarounds available until it reaches everyone.