If you use Google Docs instead and are faced with a Word file that you need to convert into a PDF, that’s not a problem. Google Docs can accommodate Word files quite nicely.

Launch Microsoft Word and open the document you want to convert to a PDF. Click the "File" tab. Click "Save As" to show your document on the screen and open the Save As dialog.

The Spritz reading app flashes words at you in quick succession so you don’t have to move your eyes around a page, and in my very quick testing it allowed me to read at more than double my usual ...

Instead, reading takes the time it does due to language processing, which is where our brains turn strings of letters into words and a series of words into meaning.

In Grade 4, children shift from learning to read to reading to learn. (Allison Shelley/EDUimages), CC BY-NC These words cannot be learned from mere exposure and incidental acquisition.

The complexity of words only increases from there. In a recent analysis of 1,200 children’s books designed for ages 7 and up, Rastle and her colleagues found over 100,000 unique words—most of ...