A Word, Please: ‘Till,’ a roughly 1,300-year-old word, predates its more popular cousin. By June Casagrande. Feb. 10, ... I notice this problem less and less because I notice ’til less and less.

Normally, older Word files directly open in the latest version of Word. However, as with my very old AppleWorks files, these Word files apparently were too old for Word for Mac 2011 to handle.

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) doi:10.1038 ...

It was, until last week, a word we didn’t often hear outside of comic books or horror films or Sunday school class. It was an old-fashioned word, top-heavy with history and theology. It was a… ...