If you are just entering the job market, or if you are looking to make a career change, then you have probably determined that a lot of the available jobs require some kind of computer training. The actual extent of the necessary skills are going to vary wildly depending upon the type of job you … Read more
Microsoft Outlook gives you the ability to include certain tags on emails that you send to others. These tags offer Outlook users a way to filter certain types of messages. One of these tags will mark an email as high importance, which includes a red exclamation point next to the message, indicating that it has … Read more
Hardware acceleration is a feature in the Spotify desktop application that can be enabled or disabled. It’s usually not something users may think about, but it actually has some benefits to your computer and streaming experience. We’ll cover what hardware acceleration does and how you can change it from one setting to another, as enabling … Read more
New documents in Microsoft Word include a combination of settings that are defined by the Normal template. These default settings effectively determine what new documents will look like, so you will need to change these settings if you want a different setting for all future new documents. If you want to change the default font … Read more
A new document in Microsoft Word is going to have one column by default. For documents that you create in a scholastic or corporate environment, this is likely the type of formatting that your organization would like you to use. But it may become necessary to add more columns to a document in Word 2013 … Read more
If you’ve ever seen a document with some faint text or an image that is grayed out and behind the document text, then you have likely seen a watermark. These can come in the form of a text watermark or picture watermark, and provide a useful method for identifying documents quickly. You might even wonder … Read more
Excel spreadsheets show a pattern of lines on the screen that represent the perimeters of the cells. These are called gridlines, and they make it easier to distinguish different cells from one another. But gridlines can be overridden by cell fill colors, so you may be looking for a way to regain those cell perimeters. … Read more
Using your mouse to highlight text in a document can be useful when you only need to select a word, sentence, or paragraph, but it can quickly become frustrating when you need to select more. And if you have ever found a need to highlight everything in a word processing application, then you may be … Read more
Sometimes you will have data in a spreadsheet that you don’t need to display, but you don’t want to delete. This is the perfect situation for using the “hide” feature in Microsoft Excel, which will keep the data in the sheet, but remove it from view. But if you haven’t had to hide something before, … Read more
Have you ever meticulously entered a lot of data into a spreadsheet, only to find that you need to add something between two existing rows? You may have solved this issue by cutting all of your data and pasting it one row lower, or you might have even deleted a bunch of data to make … Read more