Newsletter Archives

• Making the most of Signal on Windows

  Posted on March 25, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  PRIVACY

  

  By Mary Branscombe

  Signal is much more than just a phone app: you no longer have to give anyone your phone number, and you may not even need a smartphone for it.

  Last week, I looked at why you would want to pick Signal for secure messaging with real privacy and full end-to-end encryption — on your PC rather than just on your phone.

  In fact, besides giving you the same secure messages and group chats on your desktop as on your phone, Signal for Windows also gives you some extra features you won’t find in the smartphone app.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.13.0, 2024-03-25).

  Privacy Newsletters, Signal, Signal for Windows, SMS, tips, WhatsApp

• My favorite OneNote tricks

  Posted on April 24, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  ONENOTE

  

  By Mary Branscombe

  Once you get all your useful information into OneNote, there are some ways to make things go faster.

  For a long time, one of the most common feature requests for OneNote was already in the product — being able to have more than one window open at once. It just wasn’t easy to find. There are useful tricks like that in OneNote. Here are my favorites.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.17.0, 2023-04-24).

  OneNote Newsletters, OneNote, tips, Tricks, Usability

• The twists and turns of Office Fast Account Switching

  Posted on May 16, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 19.20 • 2022-05-16

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Fast Account Switching lets you quickly “change hats” between work, home, and other Microsoft accounts in Microsoft 365, Office 2021 and 2019, and now the browser-based Office.com apps.

  Most of us have more than one online life, usually a work account — and a personal account and possibly more for other work or voluntary commitments. For Office users, that means separate Microsoft accounts and switching between those accounts to see recent documents and online storage related to that part of your life. In the past, and still in Office for Mac, changing accounts meant reopening the Office app.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.20.0, 2022-05-16).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365, Microsoft Accounts, Newsletters, Office 365, tips

• Get more OneDrive with these tips

  Posted on April 25, 2022 at 02:43 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  There are a few tricky ways to beat the 365 plan quota, to get more than one terabyte of OneDrive space for nothing and save local disk space by pushing files to OneDrive.

  Most Microsoft 365 plans, including Family, Personal, and most Business plans, include one terabyte of OneDrive storage. That’s 1,000 GB, more than enough for most people. But if you need more, there are cheaper – or even free – options available that are legitimate, inside the bounds of Microsoft’s rules.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.17.0, 2022-04-25).

  Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365, Newsletters, OneDrive, tips

• Top 10 tips for Windows 10

  Posted on October 6, 2014 at 09:15 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  If you’re running the Windows Technical Preview, here’s a handful of things you might’ve missed. 

  InfoWorld Tech Watch.

  Windows News tips, Windows 10