Looking for the best AI for spreadsheets? We asked the four major AI sites, ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot, to build the same spreadsheet and the results split cleanly down the middle. But Claude and ChatGPT show an instant spreadsheet preview with every answer, so you can check the result before asking for […]
Microsoft Word knows more slang than you might expect. Words like zillion, jillion, squillion, gazillion, bazillion, and oodles are all recognized as correct spellings in Word’s US English dictionary, so you won’t get the dreaded red squiggly line if you drop one into a document. Word’s thesaurus even offers alternatives for “zillion,” though some of […]
Microsoft Word has not gone ‘woke’. Despite press stories claiming Word enforces ‘politically correct’ language, the truth is far less dramatic. The Inclusiveness grammar checks behind the headlines are optional, off by default, and have been part of Word since before 2020. They flag words like mankind, postman and showgirl with a purple squiggly line […]
Microsoft Word 365 has a new overpaste feature that turns selected text into a clickable hyperlink in a single paste, no dialog box required. Instead of pressing Ctrl + K, pasting the URL, and clicking OK, you can now copy a link, highlight the text you want to convert, and paste straight over it. The […]
Microsoft has quietly added a new Group Policy and Registry switch to Windows 11 that can remove the Microsoft Copilot app and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app from your PC. It sounds like the Copilot kill switch many Windows 11 users have been waiting for, but the fine print is tight. The policy only works […]
