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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.
Alt+←
A long press on the back arrow unfolds the tab's history. Instead of clicking back five times, jump straight to the page where you started.
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.
A contract, an attachment, and a scanned addendum, all in one file: Preview handles it on a Mac, free PDF24 on Windows — just don't upload sensitive documents anywhere.
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.
Chrome, Edge, and Firefox can all fill in a PDF form directly. And when the form has no fillable fields, Edge and Firefox just let you type the text straight onto it.
Before a meeting or a coworker pulls you away, write one sentence: what you're doing and what the next step is. Coming back then takes seconds, not a quarter hour.
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.
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.
Plenty of monitors and laptops run at 60 Hz even though the hardware can do more. One setting, and scrolling suddenly feels buttery smooth.
With an external monitor and keyboard, a laptop can run closed and save desk space. Just change one setting for what closing the lid does.
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.
A monitor rotated 90° shows a full document page, a long email, or code without endless scrolling. Windows and Mac both handle it right in settings.
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.
Guided Access on iPhone and app pinning on Android keep a phone stuck in a single app — a kid watching a cartoon, a colleague viewing a photo, nothing more.
Stop retyping details off paper. iPhone can scan text with the camera directly into a text field; Android does the same through Google Lens.
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.
You can't scan a code on your own screen with the camera. But you can hold your finger on it in Photos, or open it through Google Lens.
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.
On iPhone, slide your finger off the 123 key onto a digit and the keyboard snaps back to letters by itself. Gboard has a key hold or a permanent number row.
Build your own Quick Action in the Shortcuts app in five minutes — select photos, right-click, and they're the right size for email.