Microsoft 365 is the de facto option. But if you just need to open, edit, and create basic documents, you don’t have to spend anything.

Microsoft 365 Insiders are testing a change in Word for Windows. Instead of saving new documents to your computer, Word will now save them to OneDrive by default.

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default.

Option 1: Recover Unsaved Word Document Using 4DDiG When Microsoft Word crashes, it often leaves behind temporary versions of unsaved documents in a hidden AutoRecovery folder on your computer.

Option 1: Recover Unsaved Word Document Using 4DDiG When Microsoft Word crashes, it often leaves behind temporary versions of unsaved documents in a hidden AutoRecovery folder on your computer.

An alternative to using the features in Word is to use an online optical character recognition (OCR) service to convert the text in your PDF to a Word document, as discussed by Computer Hope.

How to Open Word Documents if You Don't Have Word. Microsoft Word is the world's leading word processing application, and documents created in the program are saved in a proprietary format.

If you are trying to track down a missing Word document, these tips and tricks might be helpful.

There's no need to recreate your Microsoft Word macros when you move to a new computer.