The first step to collaborating in G Suite is sharing a file with your collaborators. That starts with adding the file to Google Drive. Go to drive.google.com and log in if necessary. On the top left, ...

After ending official support in 2023, Microsoft will now lock down Office 2019 on July 13, meaning you can't edit, save, or create new files. Here are your options.

All your recently opened files and folders, including pinned folders, appear under the Quick Access location. The same holds true for office online files but if you do not want to show files from ...

If you accidentally closed an Office document without saving it, or maybe a Word document you've been working on crashed, don't panic. By default, Office applications automatically save temporary ...

When Microsoft rolled out Office 2013, the productivity suite promised to be deeply integrated with the cloud. And as long as you were invested in Microsoft services such as OneDrive, it was. But ...

This has been the case since Microsoft introduced an Office mobile app for Android and iOS in 2019. The Office app combined Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps into a single app to create an “integrated ...

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) file ...

Have you ever clicked on a Microsoft Office file, only to find it opening in the browser instead of the desktop app you prefer? For many, this seemingly small inconvenience can disrupt workflows and ...

If opening Office files crashes or freezes the File Explorer on your Windows 11/10 system, this post may help you fix it. The affected users have reported that the File Explorer crashes only when they ...

Microsoft resolved a Teams file access outage, but IT teams should check tenant impact, document the outage window, and test Microsoft 365 file fallbacks.

Searching, grouping, and even filtering files is easier if you know how to use the Windows Tags property. Sometimes you don’t know you need a feature until you discover it and put it to use for a bit.

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...