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Q. When I bought a Windows 10 PC last year, I had all my Word files from Windows 7 transferred to the new computer. But I couldn't open those files using Word on Windows 10, and Word was unable to ...

My problem involves moving 7-year-old word processing files from my old computer to my new HP Pavilion 6630. I was using Microsoft Works 2.0 and the HP has Microsoft Works 5.0. I am unable to open ...

The WordPad program is a simple word processing program that is included with every copy of Windows. Even though Microsoft removed the ability to save a document in the .doc format using WordPad and ...

When you right-click a file, you see the Open With command. Whenever you use any program to open such a file, it gets added to this list, as Windows remembers that you had used it once. If you were ...