Catching up to a key part of Google Docs, Microsoft's Office 365 now lets people simultaneously edit the same online Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Microsoft today announced a significant change to its Office strategy for mobile devices: creating and editing is now free. The company also released standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps for ...

Microsoft is preparing to bring a new command-line text editor called Edit to Windows 11, which is made for users who want a simple and lightweight tool for editing text files. Edit is now available ...

Microsoft today said that it has enhanced certain versions of its PowerPoint presentation-building program with real-time collaborative editing. This feature came to Word on desktop last year. And ...

Public preview of Microsoft’s C++ tools for the AI coding assistant are available in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.

Sometimes, Team files uploaded in the Teams Chat group can only be modified by the file owner. When adding someone to chat, the permissions are not instantly adjusted as they should be, but Teams is ...

Gkuep1945 used to edit the Start Menu from inside XP’s Windows Explorer, and now asks the Answer Line forum how to do that in Windows 7. If you’re doing major work on the Start Menu–moving shortcuts ...

Microsoft is adding photo editing and viewing features to OneDrive that bring it another step closer to Google Photos. Starting on Android and the web, you can now use the file syncing app to crop ...

Microsoft didn’t release a major new version of Windows in 2025, but it did deliver a lot of significant updates. Here's my ...

Microsoft Word can ably edit PDFs with lots of text, but it can’t replace a dedicated PDF editor for complex documents. Microsoft doesn’t include a PDF editor in its Office suite, but it has made it ...

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