You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

Portable Document Format files can contain many types of data, including images, charts and simple text. If you want to use the information from a PDF in your next PowerPoint presentation, you can do ...

Legendary file-sharing site The Pirate Bay may have finally been forced offline, but that doesn’t mean that the less-than-legal file-sharing scene has slowed down—the shady BitTorrent hydra has many ...

You can use the macOS Finder's Copy command to copy and paste files. But here's how to use the same command to copy file icons into Preview. You've probably used the macOS Finder's popup contextual ...

A compressed version of files, popularly known as zipped files are convenient but also prone to errors. So, when you attempt to open such files using freeware utilities like 7-Zip, you may encounter ...

You know those times when you want to upload a new photo to, say, Facebook or Pinterest? The typical browser-based upload tool forces you to click through countless ...

One of the banes of modern working life comes about when trying to collaborate remotely with colleagues using different software. Mac users pick up a spreadsheet, presentation deck or word-processing ...

The free, open-source TrueCrypt file encryption program allows you to create encrypted container files for protecting sensitive data. These container files appear just like any other file, which ...

I know robocopy is faster than the normal copy command for transferring many files over a network because of its multithreading. But for transferring a single file such as a multi-GB video, would ...

Microsoft has rummaged deep into its archive for its latest contribution to the open-source community: Windows File Manager. Originally bundled with Windows in 1990, File Manager was a replacement for ...