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New project, and a document full of acronyms and jargon? AI pulls out every term and explains it in context — flagging what it's only guessing.
A forwarded conversation, “see below,” and thirty emails of history. Drop the thread into AI and ask: who's claiming what, where's the agreement, and what are you supposed to do.
Describe in plain words what you want to match, and AI returns a regular expression with a part-by-part explanation and test cases. For Sheets, editors, and bulk edits.
Servings, cups to grams, Fahrenheit to Celsius, and a shopping list to go with it. One prompt solves the kitchen math nobody wants to do.
Attendance against sign-ups, payments against orders: paste two lists and AI lists what's in one and missing from the other — even through typos.
Before you present, have AI generate the audience's questions — curious, skeptical, and the one from your boss about money. You'll find out which ones you can't answer while there's still time.
In Czech, “Dear Mr. Novák” is wrong — it has to be “Dear Mr. Nováku,” the vocative case. AI adds a properly-declined salutation column to your contact table, for hundreds of names at once.
AI loves to improve your style, even when nobody asked it to. Tell it to fix only spelling and punctuation and list the changes — your voice stays yours.
Tell AI the app, version, and what you're looking for — you get the exact path in the settings. No more clicking blind or following guides written for a five-year-old version.
An email typed on the wrong keyboard layout or an export from an old system: paste the text into AI and get it back with the accents in the right place. It works in reverse too.
Instead of trawling ten-year-old forum threads, paste the error message — or a screenshot of it — into AI and ask three things: what it means, what to do, and what not to do.
Before you publish, have AI fix only the typography: smart quotes, dashes instead of hyphens, spacing around numbers and units. It leaves the wording alone.
Type 154*1.21 into the address bar and the result shows up right in the suggestions — no Enter, no opening a calculator.
No more hunting for installers across the web: winget install installs a program from a verified source, and winget upgrade --all updates everything at once.
Win+`
Windows Terminal has a mode like an old game console: Win+` slides it down over the top half of the screen, press it again to hide it. Always at hand, never in the way.
Every PDF opens in Edge even though you read PDFs elsewhere. Photos open in an app you never chose. Two minutes in Settings → Default apps and files start opening where you actually want them.
Win+Shift+R
A short “click here like this” video beats ten screenshots. Newer Windows 11 can record a chosen part of the screen to MP4 with a built-in tool.
Send a file to the computer next to you without a cable, email, or a flash drive: Nearby Share sends it directly, over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Most people don't know it exists.
Get a phone photo into a presentation without a cable, no emailing yourself: the Phone Link app shows photos, messages, and notifications right inside Windows.
Your computer takes minutes to boot because a dozen apps you don't need wake up with it. Turning them off in Settings takes five minutes — and it's permanent.
A notification in the middle of a shared screen is a nightmare. Windows can turn on Do Not Disturb automatically while presenting, gaming, or at set hours.
Win+Home
Ten windows open and you only need one. Win+Home minimizes all the others — press it again and they all come right back.
Win+Ctrl+Shift+B
The display freezes or turns black after connecting a monitor, but the computer is still running. Win+Ctrl+Shift+B restarts the graphics driver — the picture comes back and you lose nothing.
Win+Alt+K
You don't have to hunt down the meeting window to mute yourself. Win+Alt+K in Windows 11 toggles the microphone even while you're working in a completely different app.
Ctrl+Shift+C
No need to describe to a colleague where a file lives. Ctrl+Shift+C in File Explorer copies the complete path — just paste it into chat or a dialog.
F2
Renaming without a mouse: F2 opens the name for editing, Tab saves it and skips to the next file. Select several files, and they all get renamed at once.
Ctrl+Z
Accidentally dragged a file who-knows-where? Ctrl+Z in File Explorer undoes the last file operation — move, copy, rename, and delete to the recycle bin.
Ctrl+Shift+N
You create folders all the time — and every time via right-click and a menu. Ctrl+Shift+N creates a new folder instantly, already primed for naming.
A terminal opened exactly in the folder you're looking at: just type cmd or powershell into Explorer's address bar and press Enter.
Win+Shift+T
Text in a screenshot, an image, or a video? Win+Shift+T from PowerToys reads the selected area through OCR and drops the text on your clipboard.