Office suites have come a long way in terms of compatibility from five and 10 years ago. Previously a document in one office suite would rarely open properly in a competitors office application, or if ...

Microsoft OneDrive gives immediate access to all your personal files. It also enables you to share them easily with others or sync through the program’s settings. Sometimes, syncing can get stuck for ...

Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft switched to Office Open XML (OOXML) as the default file formats for its applications. However, the legacy .doc (Word), .xls (Excel) and .ppt (PowerPoint) file ...

Thanks to a new agreement between Microsoft and Dropbox, mobile users can now edit documents stored on Dropbox through one of Microsoft's mobile apps. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer ...

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 ...

The first step to collaborating in G Suite is sharing a file with your collaborators. That starts with adding the file to Google Drive. Go to drive.google.com and log in if necessary. On the top left, ...

Gmail is building up its integration with Microsoft Office files, allowing users to directly edit Office documents that they receive in attachments. Users have been able to edit files from Google’s ...

Q I’m having problems with some Microsoft Office files. Some of them open very slowly, and others either don’t open or they open with terse error messages. Do you ...

Microsoft recently updated their Microsoft Office apps for iOS making it possible to now use iCloud Drive to sync Office files from a Mac or PC to an iPad or iPhone. We’ll show users how to take ...

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 revealed new icons for the Office suite of apps last year, and though they've begun making their way to users across many platforms, the company hadn't yet updated the corresponding filetype ...

When Microsoft rolled out Office 2013, the productivity suite promised to be deeply integrated with the cloud. And as long as you were invested in Microsoft services such as OneDrive, it was. But ...