While it was indeed Microsoft who came out with docx file format back in 2007, many others have adopted docx, and you don’t necessarily need Microsoft Word to open docx files anymore.

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.

From time-to-time users of Microsoft Word will come face-to-face with a file extension called ASD.In many cases, folks are confused about what to do with such a file and how to open it. Well, we ...

With Office 2007, Microsoft introduced entirely new file formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Designated by an x at the end of the file extension (.docx instead of .doc, and so on), these were ...

3] Uncheck Hide Extensions by known File Types. Open the File Explorer and go to the View tab. Just adjacent to it, you should find the See more icon visible as three horizontal dots. Click the ...

Microsoft says it will align the files considered dangerous and blocked in OneNote with those blocked by Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The complete list includes 120 extensions according ...

Familiar file extensions, including the .doc Word default, sprouted an "x" at the end, ... Microsoft Word's new Open-XML-based file format provides support for new content enhancements, ...