This has been a frequent complaint by users of Microsoft Office 2003 and earlier word processing software since Microsoft launched Office 2007, and introduced the .docx format. “At the beginning of ...

In an email News Brief distributed today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reminded stakeholders that starting at 12:01 am (ET) on January 17, the filing of new, non-provisional utility patent ...

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How to enable .docx creation in the Google Docs app Your email has been sent Did you know that you can now create .docx files directly from within the Google Docs app? With this new(ish) feature you ...

In August, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it planned on raising various fees. One of those involved an additional $400 fee for non-provisional utility application filings with a ...

Convertio is a popular free online file converter tool. Using this tool, you can easily convert a HEIC image to DOC or DOCX format. The advantage of using this tool is that it lets you convert ...

If you haven't yet upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008, you're probably intimately familiar with the problem of receiving Office 2008 .docx (Word 2008) files; they're not natively supported by Office ...

DOCX isn't always best—switching to different document formats can solve real-world frustrations.

If you've been accustomed to opening files from newer versions of Microsoft Word in older versions of the software, the error messages you see when you try to open ...