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ONENOTE By Mary Branscombe If you’re still using OneNote for Windows 10, make sure all your notes are synced into OneDrive now; starting on October 14, 2025, the app will be read-only and will stop syncing. You will be able to see your old notes but not edit or add to them, so make sure […]

ISSUE 22.35 • 2025-09-01 MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Microsoft Word will soon save files to OneDrive or SharePoint by default. Redmond is making saving documents to your local PC harder. Here’s what’s going to happen, and how you can stop it. Microsoft has a long-term strategy of moving everything possible to its cloud services. […]

WINDOWS 11 By Lance Whitney Microsoft offers a couple of modern methods to back up and restore your files in Windows. Here are the tools I use and how I use them. Backing up your Windows folders, files, and settings is always important. If something goes awry with Windows or with your PC, you’ll want […]

MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan The browser-based versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have come a long way from their simplistic early versions. This means you can do a lot with your Office documents on almost any machine, without installing any software. It’s worth a little time to familiarize yourself with these Web apps because […]