Microsoft's flagship word processor has tons of neat little features to customize your documents, and it can be hard to keep track of and master them all. But with our quick guides to using Microsoft ...

On the information superhighway, some keyboard characters such as carets, ellipses and asterisks symbolize direction and help you navigate the Internet. Even in computer file systems such as folders ...

Microsoft Word, like all text-based programs, uses a numeric character code called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) for each alphabetic, numeric, and special character on ...

You can add special characters while typing on a computer using keyboard shortcuts or a special pop-up window. Both Windows and Mac computers have the same special characters, but have different ways ...

How to use and customize the touch keyboard in Windows 11 Your email has been sent Windows 11 offers a touch keyboard through which you can tap to type if you’re using a device without a physical ...

A computer has two different typing modes -- the insert mode and the overtype mode. The former is the default mode and works much as you'd expect, with what you type being inserted at the location of ...

Turn that Copilot or Scroll Lock key into a media control or extended character. HANDS ON In the era of laptops and tenkeyless keyboards, many of us are living with fewer keys than we had years ago.

Rarely does a week pass that I don’t get a call from someone whosays trying to type a word into the middle of an existing sentencecauses the text to the right to be “swallowed up” rather thanmoving ...

Blogger Jim Biancolo, creator of the previously-mentioned Universal Autocorrect AutoHotkey script, has put together a simple AutoHotkey hack for making use of your Insert key (you know, the key that ...

The Insert Key can often be irritating on your keyboard. If you mistakenly press it when operating, it switches to Overtype mode, and then you can get irritated. You can type something, and the text ...