Word will always open the file in the desktop environment if available. To my knowledge, Microsoft 365 doesn’t offer a setting for always defaulting to Word for the web. However, if you create ...

Microsoft appears to be experimenting with ad-supported Office desktop apps They are limited in their functionality, and will ...

That simplified Ribbon is available in the Word web app, but there’s currently no sign that it will appear in the Word desktop app ... in the original file. Instead, Microsoft suggests opening ...

Microsoft has officially announced a very useful new feature for Word users, allowing for easier processing of long documents ...

When I am at home, I normally work from a desktop computer ... been planning to write in Word. Microsoft Office and OpenOffice have long supported one another's file formats, but just barely.

There's a Word for Microsoft 365 bug that deletes your files. Credit: IB Photography / Shutterstock Microsoft has confirmed a bug in Word for Microsoft 365 that deletes files if you try to save them.

Microsoft is warning Word for Windows users about a bug that might see their files disappear when they try to save them. While the computing giant works on a fix, users are being told to be ...