EZPZ FileQuestions that come up when you work with files and documents. Less about which button to press, more about how to decide.
You photograph a five-page document and send it. The reply asks for "one PDF, please". Five photos and one PDF are different objects to the office receiving them, and the portal may also want the result under 300 KB.
AshtonKeep reading →They asked for one page of your bank statement, or one semester of your marksheet. Sending the whole PDF hands over everything else too. Here is how to send only the pages needed, and how to check the rest is really gone.
AshtonKeep reading →You save an image from a web page and it lands as .webp. Word will not take it, and in some programs it does not even appear in the file list.
AshtonKeep reading →Legal asks for "the original email". You save the message and get a .eml file that does nothing when you double-click it.
AshtonKeep reading →You double-click a zip and Windows or macOS shows an error, or tells you the folder is empty. Find your exact message in the table below to see what it usually means and what to try, including password-protected zips and file names that come out as gibberish.
AshtonKeep reading →You need to merge and compress your certificates for a form tonight. The first file works. On the second, a message appears: you have used up today's allowance. What iLovePDF, Smallpdf, PDF24 and others actually publish about free use, and how to finish without paying.
AshtonKeep reading →You convert a Korean HWP to Word and the tables shift, the fonts change and the line breaks move. What breaks element by element when HWP becomes DOCX, which route keeps the most, and when you should not convert to Word at all.
AshtonKeep reading →You need to compress your e-Aadhaar for a form, merge salary slips for a loan, or email an HR file that is too large. Search for a way out and dozens of free PDF sites come back. What happens to your file on them, what they say about deleting it, and when not to upload at all.
AshtonKeep reading →You open a site to compress or merge a PDF once and it asks for your email, or your mobile number and an OTP. By the time that is done you still have not started the thing you came to do. Which options need no account at all, and what to check about where your file goes.
AshtonKeep reading →You double-click a .hwp file on your Mac and get a message that no application can open it. Before you set up Windows just for this, check what you actually need to do with the file. For most people, a browser is enough.
AshtonKeep reading →Someone in Korea sends you a file ending in .hwpx and nothing on your computer will open it. This page explains what HWPX is, how it differs from the older .hwp, why you are seeing more of it, and what to do when you just need to read it or send it back.
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