How to Make the Most of Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales

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However, it also reads and writes files in Microsoft Office formats (DOC and DOCX). If you collaborate with others on Microsoft Office documents, but you use LibreOffice, you can choose to always save files as Microsoft Office files to make it easier to exchange those documents back and forth. Read This Article → How to Stop Your WhatsApp Friends from Knowing You’ve Read Their Messages WhatsApp is a really popular, Facebook-owned messaging service, although most of its users are outside the US. While it's encrypted end-to-end to protect you from spying, WhatsApp shares read receipts by default—so people can see if you’ve read their message—as well as sharing the last time you were online. Read This Article → PSA: If a Company Is Calling You Unsolicited, It’s Probably a Scam Phone call scams are too common. But they’re easier to spot than you might think. 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