How to quickly switch text between uppercase and lowercase on Mac
Need to quickly change text from all caps to all lowercase letters on your Mac or vice versa? Here’s how to easily switch between letter cases on Mac.
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Trackpad sketching now available in Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint for Mac
There are no Macs with a touchscreen, but the latest version of Office for Mac attempts to address that with the handy new ability to ink with your trackpad.
How to change the tabs in Microsoft Word on Mac
If you’d like to customize your experience in Word on Mac, one great way is to change the tabs you see. It’s easy to do and this tutorial shows you how.
How to customize the Quick Access Toolbar in Word and Excel on Mac
Make the most out of the tools you use in Microsoft Word and Excel. Here’s how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar to suit your needs.
How to change text and formatting AutoCorrect settings in Word for Mac
Create documents quicker, automatically format them, and reduce your errors. The Word AutoCorrect options can help you and here’s how to adjust them.
How to customize keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Word for Mac
Move through your documents without lifting a finger from your keyboard. Here’s how to view and customize Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts on Mac.
How to save a Pages document as a Word document
Learn how to save a Pages document as a Word document. You will also learn how to convert a Pages file to a Microsoft Word file on Mac, iPhone, and iPad
iOS 11 makes typing easier with new one-handed keyboard
Apple has made major improvements to the keyboard on the iPhone in iOS 11, making it easier to type with one hand on larger handsets.
This tweak adds a character counter to the top of the Notes app
Most of the world’s best text editors and word processors have some kind of character or word counter, but for whatever reason, Apple’s Notes app is the lone exception.
For those who wish this wasn’t the case, a new free jailbreak tweak called NotesCharacterCount by iOS developer hvyc enables a character counter at the top of the Notes app.
New Apple ads continue positioning iPad Pro as being better than a computer
Apple today published four new ads on its YouTube channel that continue to position its iPad Pro tablet as being better than a computer. The four new commercials, running sixteen seconds each, use the tagline “Real Problems… Answered” and appear to be based on typical PC user tweets.
The videos promote the tablet as a device that’s free of wires, immune to viruses, faster than most laptops and able to run Microsoft Office apps and connect to fast LTE cellular networks.
Give the new ads a quick watch, then meet us in comments.
New malware uses auto-running macros in Word documents to infect your Mac
Taking advantage of a primitive Windows technique relying on automatically-running macros embedded in Microsoft Word documents, a new type of Mac malware attack has been discovered recently. As first noted in a research compiled by Objective-See, the technique used may be crude but once an unsuspecting user opens an infected Word document and chooses to run the macros, the malware installs itself silently on the target Mac and immediately attempts to download a hazardous payload.
Quickly change between open documents on your Mac with this keyboard shortcut
Sometimes while handing document files on your Mac, you may end up opening more than one at the same time so you can copy and paste excerpts, or to make modifications to a document while reading another.
Making life easier for switching between those multiple open document files is a handy keyboard shortcut that works not only with Apple’s Pages app, but also with Microsoft Word and a slew of other apps.