To fix this error message, you have to decrease the size of the Word document. The size of the Word document is directly proportional to the length of the text and ...

Some users have reported that when they attempt to open a Word document, it fails to open. Instead, they see a Word cannot open the existing file (Normal.dotm) error ...

Microsoft Word is the world's leading word processing application, and documents created in the program are saved in a proprietary format. Even though these .docx or .doc files are native to Word, it ...

Any business looking for a cost-effective alternative to the Microsoft Office suite may do well to look into the open-source, free-to-download Apache OpenOffice. The suite includes a robust array of ...

Open one, two, three, or all the Microsoft Word files in a folder at the same time. Susan Harkins explains how to do it. There are a number of ways to open a Word file. Use Open from the File menu, ...

Have you encountered a Word file corruption issue with a notice: “Word experienced an error trying to open the file”? Microsoft Word will offer three solutions to ...

I've always been a bit miffed that Word plops you at the start of a document when you open it. If you're editing a very long document, you literally need to write on a piece of paper where you left ...

Gmail can now open all Microsoft Word files (both DOC and DOCX formats) in Google Docs Viewer with the click of a link—a new feature accompanied by an equally simple route to editing the file in ...

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 ...

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