MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Windows users often ask me about switching to a Mac and, most recently, the new and economical Mac Neo. For most everyday users, it’s a good alternative. Mac Neo is Apple’s most affordable laptop. It’s not a powerhouse, but it handles Microsoft Office well, plays very well with iPhones, and […]

I use OneNote every day, all day — primarily to keep our master editorial calendar. I paste text into it all the time. I call this “quicksand.” That’s because the keyboard shortcuts for this simple task keep changing. Even worse, the actual “paste as text” function keeps changing. To the left you can see “Keep […]

Stuff just keeps showing up in Windows with little or no warning, so I missed an interesting change. Microsoft added keyboard shortcuts for endash (Win+-) and emdash (Win+Shift+-). That may not be a big deal for you, but it is for me. Our senior copy editor, Roberta Scholz, is a strict grammarian. I, on the other […]