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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

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Meta Are non power users questions welcome in Power Users?

I have found three posts from one user having the same statement: I'm a computer illiterate One of these posts derived on-topic question in this site, which have two answers; the top answer m...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Tags page shows [microsoft-excel] x 7 but clicking on this tag shows no questions

Clicking on Tags, among other tags, I see [microsoft-excel] x 7, but clicking on [microsoft-excel], I don't see any questions. What does that number seven next to [microsoft-excel] mean on the Tag...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

While I identify myself as a "power user", the site name "POWER USER" appeals to a very narrow audience, probably limited to people of certain ages and backgrounds. I don't recall having ever read ...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A In Word, how do I readily sort a string of numbers separated by commas?

The Sort Text function shown in the snapshot is intended to sort lists. In Microsoft Word, a list has each element member in a new line (paragraph). Considering this: Convert the numbers separat...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Add [windows-11] as a child of [windows] and add tag usage guidance

I wonder if adding [windows-11] as a child of [windows] might be possible as [windows] already has [windows-10] as a child. Also, considering that the term "windows" in the context of personal com...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Tagging questions about crossplatform software

This is a follow-up to Should we use more specific version tags for software? The referred question is about tagging software, more specifically software versions and presents the case of windows-...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Tagging questions about crossplatform software

Adapting @samcarter proposal shared in a comment to the question Use two tags One tag for the software, i.e., microsoft-word One tag for the platform windows or the corresponding child tag ...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Why searching two terms the results page includes posts not including one of the terms?

I searched computer illiterate because I think I have seen some posts including these words and would like to copy the link to them to ask a question. Later I will provide more details on the quest...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta What do we do about webapps?

Previously, web applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail were popular examples, but they have undergone significant advancements. Even Google Docs has undergone significant evolution. Fir...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A How to disable email grouping (in conversation) in Gmail web mail for certain senders?

As of June 2023, Gmail still doesn't offer a built-in way to disable the conversation view for specific senders. Knowing about this limitation, you should carefully review your inbox. If you influ...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Is the question "A term that describes frontend redirects" on-topic and in such case what tags should be used?

A term that describes frontend redirects has the following tags: web-browsers web-servers While both tags are related, they don't look appropriate as the question is not about a web browser ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A Browser video sometimes stops working; how can I figure out why?

As an alternative to rebooting, you might try to use "Force Quit Applicaitons" (Command-Option-Escape), select one web browser then click Force Quit. If there was another web browser in the list, r...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Applications for "Edit Tags Ability"

I'm interested in participating in tag curation. Below there are some notes network x 6 Should it be network or networking? battery x 2 It should not be the only tag, or it should ...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"?

The site name is Power Users. With due respect to the author of the previous answer and the community, considering the question title, Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"? I'm po...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Software Recommendations Category

In the meantime that this is being discussed... the tag [software-recommendations] has collected seven questions. Related What should our take be on software recommendation questions?

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Office suites category

As of June 2023, it doesn't look to be enough questions about office-suite related apps to warrant having a category: Microsoft Office Considering the basic Microsoft Office Suite package: mic...

posted 1y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Wicket‭

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