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Artwork: Chip Taylor Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps.
The tech giant adds a new feature to the web version of Microsoft Word allowing people to record and upload audio for transcription. Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he ...
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Conversations are transcribed automatically and it works with uploaded audio files, too. Deciphering and re-writing notes from an interview, meeting, or informal discussion takes time and energy most ...
Microsoft’s conversion from Office 365 subscriptions to Microsoft 365, beginning Tuesday, will be accompanied by features that will be rolled out over the coming months. But there’s an exception ...
Microsoft Office 2013, formally unveiled on Monday, embraces the cloud more fully than any previous version of the age-old productivity suite. We’ve already examined the desktop versions of the ...
I don't use Microsoft Office very often. I do most of my writing in Obsidian and my number crunching in Google Sheets. Every once in a while, though, someone who does use Office sends me a Word ...
Copilot integration in Microsoft 365 apps makes it a snap to generate first drafts, revise text, and get instant summaries for long docs or email threads. Here’s how to use Copilot for writing ...
Word has always been the workhorse app of the Microsoft Office suite. Nearly everyone who uses Office ends up using Word at some point, whether it be for writing memos, typing up agendas, creating ...
For the last few decades, Microsoft Word has been the de facto standard for word processors across the working world. That’s finally starting to shift, and it looks like one of Google’s productivity ...