These guides will help ... of Microsoft’s Office apps for Windows — and Windows itself. Need to get up to speed on the latest features in Excel? Wrestling with an old version of Word?

See Office 2007 and Office file formats. Support for XML and data collaboration. Office files could be saved as native XML for easier integration with other applications, and Microsoft's ...

When the blinking cursor paralyzes me, I turn to these underrated Microsoft Word tricks to help me get through the mental logjam. Typing that first sentence can often feel like wading through mud.

Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft switched to Office Open XML (OOXML) as the default file formats for its applications. However, the legacy .doc (Word), .xls (Excel) and .ppt (PowerPoint ...