Portable document format (PDF) files remain a popular choice for business documents ranging from contracts and forms to manuals and reports, so there's a good chance you need to open them often.

The Portable Document Format makes it possible for you to open and view documents, no matter what operating system, software or computer you have. To make this happen in Yahoo Mail, the email program ...

In Office 2013, Microsoft was compelled to support the true ODF format as well as the PDF format. Here's how open source won In a blog post earlier this week, Microsoft’s manager for Office standards ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Mar. 2014 and the video tutorial for this article published Dec. 2018; while this program might look a little different, the steps shown in this ...

You can save a Notepad file as PDF by using Microsoft Print to PDF feature. It is a built-in feature in Windows that lets users convert their documents from one format into PDF. This will save your ...

The software Google's browser uses to show PDF files has been proprietary for years, but now it's an open-source project called PDFium that others can scrutinize or use themselves. Stephen Shankland ...

To convert a PDF to Excel, open the PDF file in Word. Save the PDF in Word as a webpage, then open that webpage file in Excel. You can also export a PDF to Excel ...

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