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Forget Microsoft Word: Here's Why I Do All My Writing in Markdown

Since Markdown files are pure plain text, they’re incredibly lightweight—often just a few kilobytes, even for lengthy ...
Windows Report

Take a look at the rejected versions of Microsoft Office apps' icons

Microsoft reveals unseen, rejected concept icons for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, showing bolder designs that never made the ...
PCMag

Microsoft Sets the Tone for 'Vibe Working' With New Agent Mode in Word, Excel

To try Agent Mode in Excel, you need to get the Excel Labs add-in and choose Agent Mode. In Word, you can just open Copilot ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: Word deletes some documents instead of saving them

Microsoft warned users of a new known issue that may cause Word for Windows to delete some documents instead of saving them. As the company explains, this bug only impacts users of Word for Microsoft ...

Microsoft’s new Word tests are a direct threat to Google Docs

Word’s testing a new default that saves fresh documents to OneDrive with autosave active. It’s convenient and good for ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default. The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of ...