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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

Version 9.2.0 of OnlyOffice, released on 1 December, lets you customise some keyboard shortcuts. Open any tool within OnlyOffice then click the File tab at the top followed by Advanced Settings ( 1 in

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

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

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

Microsoft has brought back the Image Resizer tool for Windows 10. It was removed in version 0.96, released on 19 November, but was reinstated a week later with the small update 0.96.1. It lets you rig