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• How I learned to use my PC with a broken wrist

  Posted on August 5, 2024 at 02:45 CDT by Lance Whitney • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 21.32 • 2024-08-05

  WINDOWS

  

  By Lance Whitney

  After fracturing my wrist in a recent fall, I had to figure out how to use the accessibility features built into Windows to work and write.

  Despite my writing about the Windows accessibility features in a host of articles over the years, it wasn’t until this accident that I actually had to use them every day.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.32.0, 2024-08-05).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Windows Accessibility, Dictation, Mouse Keys, Newsletters, Speech Recognition, Sticky Keys, Voice input, Windows 10, Windows 11

• Ten stunning features in Microsoft Word

  Posted on October 2, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Microsoft Word has been around for so long, it’s easy to forget how great it really is.

  If you ask Microsoft about great Word features, they’ll drag out a list of recent innovations (starting and ending with “AI” and plenty of “cloud” in between). My own “stunning features” are things we take for granted, with some tips to make better use of them.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.40.0, 2023-10-02).

  Microsoft 365 Art, Collaboration, Indexes, Newsletters, Styles, Voice input, Word

• For those of you who think voice input is no biggie…

  Posted on August 15, 2015 at 06:21 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  This just happened, not far from where I live:

  Siri saves Rutherford County teen after truck collapse

  Other Voice input