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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint quietly save copies of your work as you go. File → Info → Manage Document recovers even files you never saved.
Select text, right-click, “Copy link to highlight” — the recipient lands exactly on that sentence, highlighted in yellow.
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.
Google Messages sends a text at a scheduled time when you hold down the send button. iPhone does the same in iMessage via Send Later.
Looking for where to turn on the hotspot or turn off vibration? Type it into the Settings search bar — you'll land right on the correct screen.
Tap the space bar twice at the end of a sentence — your phone inserts a period and a space, then capitalizes the next sentence. iPhone and Android.
A verification text arrives and Safari on your Mac offers it right in the field to fill in — the phone stays in your pocket. Just turn on message forwarding.
Fn+Q
An idea or a phone call in the middle of work? Fn+Q brings up a floating note over whatever you're doing — and it saves itself to Notes.
Drag a document you have open straight into an email or chat using the small icon in the window's title bar — no hunting for the file in Finder.
You don't need to hunt through special character tables for accented letters on a Mac — hold a letter down and a menu of all its accented variants pops up.
Your Mac's built-in camera is mediocre. Just set your iPhone near the monitor and the Mac offers it as a webcam — wirelessly, with nothing to install.
Your Mac sees your iPhone's hotspot right in the Wi-Fi menu, even when it's off on the phone. One click and you're online — no touching your phone.
Your Mac can receive and dial calls from your iPhone. The phone can stay on the charger in the hallway while you talk through your computer's headset.
Cmd+Shift+/
Not sure where an app hides a certain feature? This shortcut opens menu search, finds the command by name, and points an arrow at where it lives.
Finish an email you started on the tram, on your Mac, exactly where you left off. Handoff passes work in progress between your devices automatically.
Does an invoice belong in the project folder and in accounting? Tags solve the age-old dilemma of where to save a file — it can show up in more than one place at once.
You don't have to click your way through a Save dialog: drag a folder or file from Finder into it and the dialog jumps straight to that spot.
A laptop sitting on the desk shoots your chin and the ceiling from below, and a window behind you turns you into a silhouette. Camera height and light direction fix more than a new webcam ever will.
One checkbox in your calendar shortens default meetings to 25 and 50 minutes. Between calls you get a breather you don't have today.
Send a link, the other person picks an open slot themselves, and the meeting lands on both calendars. A built-in Google Calendar feature almost nobody knows about.
Don't arrange a meeting time over email. Google Calendar and Outlook lay attendees' calendars side by side, and you spot the open slot at a glance.
C
One letter instead of clicking: C for a new event, T for today, D/W/M to switch views, J and K to page through. A question mark shows every shortcut.
Google Calendar and Outlook can both show a second time axis next to your own. Plan a meeting across time zones by looking, not by doing math in your head.