The File menu houses recent docs; right-click one for the option to remove it Reviewed by Ryan Perian Reviewed by Ryan Perian This article explains where to find recent files opened in Microsoft Word, ...

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.

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 ...

Few computer-related disasters can drain the color from your face quicker than losing a document you’ve been busily working on. Whether your Mac crashed, froze, you forgot to save, or you accidentally ...

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 ...

Microsoft Word helps us in many ways during the documentation or submitting the abstract for your project. It also allows us to find the text normally or using a regular expression which makes it easy ...

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 ...