Using the Windows Key + period to get the Emoji pop-up

One of my work colleagues shared this tip with me, and I thought it was so good that I’ll pass it along to you. If you press the Window key + . (the period), you’ll get a cool Emoji pop-up screen along with some other useful clickable goodness. Here’s how that works…

Using Ctrl+Shift+V to paste text without the underlying formatting

It’s so frustrating when you do Ctrl+C to copy some text, and when you paste it into something like an email, it copies over all the text formatting too. So you head over to Notepad to paste it there (to lose the formatting), and then you copy and paste it into something like Outlook or Teams to get just the text. Today I learned that you can use Ctrl+Shift+V (or Option+Shift+Command+V on a Mac) to paste over content without formatting! Here’s how that works…