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Word and Google Docs can both compare two versions of a file and highlight every difference. No more reading contracts line by line.
Teach Word that “dph” means “value added tax.” AutoCorrect can expand your own custom shortcuts across every Office app.
Long-press a message and pin it to the top of the chat — for 24 hours, a week, or a month. A meetup address or a door code never gets buried again.
Tapping 1× switches a voice message to 1.5× and 2× — a three-minute monologue takes half the time. And you can listen to your own recording before it sends.
Asterisks around a word make it bold, underscores make it italic, a dash makes a bullet. A longer work message suddenly looks like a document.
Teams, Zoom, and Meet can all show live speech captions, and Czech is among the supported languages. A lifesaver in noise, with bad audio, or a quiet speaker.
Zoom and Teams can filter out barking, keyboard clatter, and next-door drilling. Just switch noise suppression to high in your audio settings.
Right-click pins a chat to the top of the list, and a key message above the whole conversation — visible to everyone. No more hunting for a link from last week.
Colleagues will forgive a grainy picture, but not a booming mic sound from across the room. A mic near your mouth is the cheapest meeting upgrade there is.
Music from your laptop, and when the phone rings, the headphones switch to the call on their own. A feature your headphones probably have — turned off.
Slack has a conversation with just you — a private space for notes, links, and half-written messages, synced between your computer and phone.
Slack and Teams can both send a message later — an arrow next to the send button, or a right-click. Write the idea down now, don't disturb your colleague.
Read a message on your phone at the bus stop and now there's no trace of it at work? Alt+click puts it back among the unread. And Esc, the opposite way, clears a whole channel.
Sharing your full desktop shows colleagues your notifications and half-typed messages too. Sharing one window shows only what you meant to show.
Space
Stay muted for the whole meeting. When you want to say something, hold the key, talk, release — and the microphone mutes itself again.
During a slideshow, type a slide number and press Enter — you're there. No clicking back through twenty slides in front of an audience.
Can't grab an object buried under an image with your mouse? The Selection Pane lists every element on the slide — pick by clicking in the list, not by hunting on the canvas.
Presentation is 80 MB and won't go through email? Built-in image compression shrinks it to a fraction of the size — two clicks, no visible loss.
Ctrl+D
Duplicate an object, move it into place — and the next Ctrl+D copies with the same offset built in. A row of evenly spaced elements in seconds.
Need to send three pages out of a fifty-page PDF? Print the range “12-14” to PDF and the new file is born. No installing anything.
Highlighting and annotating a PDF is handled by the free Acrobat Reader, Edge, and Preview on Mac. Feedback belongs in the file, not in a five-paragraph email.
Type @name in the body of an email — Outlook adds the person to the recipients automatically and highlights that something's expected of them. No more overlooked tasks buried in the CC line.
Most people sit in their chair exactly as it arrived from the store. Three checkpoints — elbows at desk height, knees at a right angle, feet on the floor — take a minute to fix.
Default pointer and scroll-wheel speed is tuned for monitors from a decade ago. Two sliders save hundreds of arm movements a day.
No need to dig through settings: swiping on a notification on iPhone offers an hour of silence; holding one on Android turns off just the annoying category.
Swiping right along the bottom edge of the screen switches to your previous app — on iPhone and on Android with gesture navigation. No app switcher needed.
Android can trigger battery saver by percentage. iPhone has no built-in schedule — but a Shortcuts automation turns on Low Power Mode entirely on its own.
iPhone offers to share the password automatically as soon as someone nearby tries to connect. Android generates a QR code that scans and connects.
A long press on an icon opens a shortcut menu: new email, selfie, private tab, navigate home. One tap instead of hunting inside the app.
Do Not Disturb doesn't have to be a gamble. Chosen people and repeated calls always get through — so you can finally turn it on without the guilt.