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Justifying your text makes multi-column or print-style layouts look neater. Version 25.8 of LibreOffice Writer, released in August, lets you set how loose or tight your justified text appears, improvi

LibreOffice 25.8, released in August, adds the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER formulas to Calc. These let you chop unwanted text from cells: TEXTBEFORE keeps only the text before a specified character or wo

In your answer to Tom Rathbone’s question about ebook formats (Issue 724, page 69) you could have mentioned the app ReadEra (https://readera.org). I installed it on my iPad earlier this year and it su

When people think of AI they largely think of text-based chatbots such as ChatGPT. But chatbots are only scratching the surface of what’s possible with the tsunami of AI tools that are flooding onto t

One of the most challenging parts of genealogy is reading old documents – particularly digital scans of handwritten material, such as census records, wills and parish registers. If the text is hard to

For the past decade we’ve been recommending Affinity Photo as an affordable, buy-once alternative to Adobe Photoshop, with companion apps Affinity Publisher and Affinity Designer making persuasive riv