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Hidden Software Features That Make You Faster in Everyday Apps

The most useful hidden software features include text expansion for repeated phrases, search operators like quotes and the minus sign to find files…

Text expansion: stop typing the same things over and over

If you type your email address, your phone number, or the same canned reply more than a few times a day, you're wasting real minutes.

Search operators: find anything in seconds

Plain search is fine until you have thousands of emails or files.

The right-click menu you keep ignoring

Context menus change depending on what you right-click, and they hide some of the most useful commands in any program.

Customize the toolbar so your tools come to you

Default toolbars are designed for the average user, which means they're wrong for almost everyone.

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