More by David Pogue This article was originally published with the title “How to Read Old MS Word Files When Word Says You Can't” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 317 No. 5 (November 2017) ...

If you repeatedly revise a Word document and save it as a separate file, it is difficult to keep track of the changes. We will show you how to display the changed passages.

How to Read Microsoft Word From OpenOffice. Apache's OpenOffice Writer is a versatile program, with one of its strengths being the ability to open and read document formats from other word ...