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#744 Wordtune: Word Spices

Wordtune has an extension in Google Docs as a virtual writing assistant. You can generate writing on topics or get it to suggest counterarguments or expand on points. It gives you five suggestions to choose from and enter them directly into the document. This allows you to quickly explore perspectives you may not have even… Continue reading #744 Wordtune: Word Spices

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#709 Extract text from a table

Recently I have been converting word documents that had transcripts in tables. In order to make the documents more presentable I wanted to take the text from the tables and utilise as regular text in the document. This initially meant quite a bit of cutting and pasting. After a few errors were I cut the… Continue reading #709 Extract text from a table

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#695 Remove the darkness (remove the black bars from a video)

In my previous post, I mentioned one way to remove black bars from video – by simply flipping your phone (or tablet) portrait. In this new post, we’ll use the Microsoft Video (Photo) app as an alternative. This example will show you how to for both images and video. It’s not perfect but it’s better!