Sorry that I’m changing my mind about getting a laptop, after all your helpful thoughts, thank you @KarenLot Been thinking. I have a 12.9-inch iPad Pro (first generation 2016), which is still working fine, and it’s comparable in size to the Lenovo’s screen.
I’ve just ordered a refurbished compatible Apple Smart Keyboard at half the price of a second-hand refurbished laptop!
It’s a qwerty keyboard, not azerty, but never mind!
I have Microsoft Office, 2019 Home & Student version installed, which I bought and paid for in 2021. Had a problem with the programme a couple of days ago, so de-installed it, then re-installed it – or attempted to. Microsoft said NO, and there was a sense of annoyance in Microsoft’s tone! So, it seems I can’t re-install without paying again!
However, which is puzzling, if I go to Microsoft’s OneDrive, where I keep some documents, I can continue to use it in full. Nothing’s changed. I can go on using it as I have done since 2021.
Why would that be please?
I presume you don’t have a sub to Microsoft 365?
In any event, maybe this link will help: Download and install or reinstall Office 2019, Office 2016, or Office 2013 - Microsoft Support
I’ve tried all that thanks, but don’t seem to get anywhere. I looked at my Microsoft account where there is a link to download the programe again. Won’t work, and I don’t understand why they say I have redeemed the product key. Why would I do that?
I shall contact Microsoft and hope they can help. But it doesn’t really matter because I can still use the programme even though I de-installed it.
I found my old Microsoft installer in my ‘Downloads folder’ and installed from there, and what was installed is shown below. It seems I can use all these programmes, but via the web.
That’ll do!
Some YouTube videos use a speech to text facility for the hard of hearing, which at the same time blocks out, gets in the way of, other text on the screen, making it unreadable. I downloaded such a video but nowhere to be seen was the speech to text on the downloaded video – it was gone, which I don’t understand.
I don’t want to see speech to text on YouTube videos – is it possible in some way to switch it off?
YouTube call these subtitles or “closed captions” (CC) - they are not embedded in the video (if they were they would be on all the time, and appear on a downloaded video file), but stored in a separate .SRT text file which YouTube can call up and display over the top of the video.
The captions may either be uploaded by the video originator or else auto-generated (using speech to text software) by YouTube itself - the latter are often a bit inaccurate, especially (but not exclusively) with French people speaking quickly! 
For example there’s a channel by a guy who shoots frélon nests with a paintball gun that someone on SF mentioned a while back, and his auto-generated subtitles are hopeless because his accent is quite thick and he speaks quickly with a lot of contractions!
To enable or disable subtitles/captions you click this icon here below the video (exit full-screen view if you have that running):
You probably clicked that icon by mistake, or else you viewed a video where captions had been enabled by default (non-English language videos often do that to maximise their audience, especially Chinese and Japanese channels).
The caption language can be changed via the cog icon next to it (e.g. if you want them in French rather than English).
Unfortunately with auto-generated captions YouTube has no way of knowing where the author has placed graphics on the screen, so things like lower thirds graphics can be obscured by the captions.
Thank you! Makes such a difference. Those captions are so distracting, but not anymore!
I’ve seen some videos where the author has edited and placed what is said where it enhances the video rather than spoil it.
Pity the speech to text isn’t better used for those who can’t hear and need to read the text.
It’s down to the author to implement captioning if they can be bothered to do it - otherwise they get auto-generated ones - obviously they usually only provide captions in English and/or their native language.
.SRT files don’t contain caption positional information - I believe some other caption formats do, but I haven’t tried them.
In some cases the author will “burn in” the captions i.e. add them in their video editing software, if the target audience is likely to include hearing-impaired people - here’s one of mine where this has been done:
The problem of course is that the video author can’t know what size screen the viewer is using - it could be anything from a small mobile phone to a 65" TV.
However, it’s a little known fact that the viewer can drag caption blocks in YouTube anywhere they want them on the screen - as long as they are using a computer and mouse of course!
Today’s trivia fact…
I’m truly one of today’s lucky 10,000…!
I decided to replace my old 2019 mini-iPad 5 (smashed screen) with a refurbished 2019 mini-iPad 5 identical twin, from Amazon FR. It looks brand new, took about an hour for it to digitally receive the contents of my old smashed device, sitting side by side, and to download the latest Apple update.
At the moment am well pleased but will wait to see how well the battery performs. Supposed to be 80% minimum compared with new.
The relevant part of Settings will tell you (sort of - I don’t really trust it) - what does it say at this point?
They can do**, as an extension. But most don’t.
**: you can tell how well documented this feature is(n’t) by the fact the only place I can find it mentioned is someone asking how to handle it in a forum rather than, Oh I don’t know, in an actual specification or anything.
OK - didn’t know that - but Google’s help pages say that only “basic” .SRT files are supported, so since most people will be uploading to YouTube the point is slightly moot. 
I don’t recall ever seeing it.
Thanks, to check how well the battery is working I charge it to 100%, at which time the date and time are recorded, and see how long it takes to need charging again under normal use. What I can also do is charge both mini-iPads, one refurbished, the other with a smashed screen but still working, and compare. They are both the same model and date.
I’m afraid that the info on the battery page (screen shot) means nothing to me.
I’ve just discovered SIRI, which is not going to be of any use to me at all. I’ll talk to my cats, or to myself, but not to a machine.
My phone shows battery health, which is on the same screen that you’ve shown (but obviously isn’t there on yours!). Maybe you can search Settings for that.
Agreed 
Google says that I can find battery health on a mini-iPad by going through settings to privacy & security to analytics & improvements and further on……too complicated!
Could try leaving it on playing music all day just to see how many hours it will last. A new one is claimed to last 10 hours or so.
As an aside, I have a mini-iPad 2nd generation dated 2014 in very good nick and battery seems ok. It works. Apple said that its part exchange value is zero. So, am considering giving it away, don’t need the money even if it has any worth. To charity? School kid?
