Display file format conversion panel on open in Word using this guide. Enable or disable this option using Word Options, GPEDIT, and REGEDIT.

Sometimes, when you try to open a Word file it fails to open and displays the following message – Word cannot open the file because the file format does not match the file extension. This can be ...

Microsoft Word's new Open-XML-based file format provides support for new content enhancements, helps minimize the chances of data corruption, can compress file content to produce smaller documents ...

If you don't see it, select "Rich Text Format" as the type of file you wish to open. Open the file as you would any other Word document.

Microsoft Word can accommodate a surprising number of file formats, and even take in Excel and PowerPoint data, though it might look funny. Here's how.

Have old Microsoft Word or AppleWorks spreadsheet, word processing, presentation, or draw documents that won't open under Lion? Ted Landau offers some advice.

Microsoft Word Convert a group of Word documents to another format As you probably know, you can use File | Save As to convert documents from Word to another format, such as .html or .rtf files.

Because of its finicky format, you should, wherever possible, try using a document’s native program to open it and convert it to something else.