Word documents are the absolute last format that anyone should ever consider uploading to the web because what is visible in the document is usually not all that the document contains.A knowledgeable person can extract past copies of the content out of the document and find out things you didn’t want them to know.
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Wondering how many words there are in that article that you wrote? Before computers the word count on articles used to be estimated by counting the number of characters in an average line, dividing that by an expected number of letters in a typical word, and then multiplying that by the number of lines. That [...]

The Save option in different programs do not all function the same way. What gets saved is not always just the latest version of the content of a file. Word is one obvious example of where the Save option works differently than many people might expect.
Because the changes that you make to an already written [...]

Word Processing programs have come a long way sinced the early days and modern word processors such as Microsoft Word contain features that used to only be found in Desktop Publishing programs. Character spacing and Kerning is one of the options that Word supports, which will allow you to adjust the gap left between the [...]

Sometimes what you are trying to find in your Word document may not be always exactly the same thing. Sometimes the content you are looking to find and replace has minor variations but all follows a similar pattern. Fortunately, Word allows us to enter wildcard values into our find and replace strings that allow us [...]

Star Office and Open Office (which is what the free version is now called) can easily process Microsoft Word documents almost as well as Word itself can. It also has the advantage of running on operating systems that Word itself doesn’t support. This makes Open Office the ideal choice of office suite software for anyone [...]

Word documents use a proprietary format. That means that without your spending an extensive amount of time to reverse engineer their file format, any edits that you do have at least the potential to corrupt the document.
Enter the proprietary format that Microsoft based on HTML which they designed for transferring files between their programs. This [...]

Converting a PDF into a Word document (provided that the PDF isn’t protected) doesn’t require any special software provided that all you are after copying is the text content and are not worried about if some of the formatting gets lost. At least that was the case back when I wrote this article. More recent [...]