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 ...

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 ...