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 ...

Apache's OpenOffice Writer is a versatile program, with one of its strengths being the ability to open and read document formats from other word processors, such as Microsoft Word and the .doc and ...

Office applications like Word periodically, and sometimes, without the consent of a user convert a file to ‘Read-only’ mode while it is being used. The change in default status can be annoying since ...