You may rely on Microsoft Word to prepare business correspondence, lay out documents such as annual reports or create marketing materials, but Word also operates as a catch-all for existing documents.

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most universally recognized file formats, widely used for official documents, contracts, manuals, reports, and many other scenarios. Professionals ...

Using styles in Word makes it easy to format headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes, and other elements in your document. You can use built-in styles in Word or create a custom style to meet your ...

Functionally, plain text excels at writing and storing information without locking it in the document. Plus, the files are tiny so they load instantly, and they don’t break when software changes.

iPad owners, are you feeling constrained in your content creation choices? While there are some savvy cloud-connected apps that let you open, edit or share your Microsoft Office-formatted documents, ...

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others. The Markdown text format makes it easy for people—not only software ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Do you know that you can format text in multiple ways in a single cell in Microsoft Excel? In this guide, we show how you can add multiple formatting to your text in a single cell in Excel. Formatting ...

Mac BU Blogger Rick Schaut has posted an entry on his MSDN blog detailing how the next version of Office for OS X (Office 12) will similarly be supporting the new XML format document files that were ...

For nearly a decade, Bill focused on printer and scanner technology and reviews for PCMag, and wrote about computer technology since well before the advent of the internet. He authored or co-authored ...

Like many other firms, Hinshaw & Culbertson, has always been focused on enhancing user productivity and efficiency as a means of working not only smarter internally, but also — and ultimately — ...