How to Show Text Boundaries in Word 2010
When you are editing a document in Microsoft Word 2010, you can see how that document will look when it is printed. A portion of the …
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How to Delete a Watermark in Word 2010
A watermark can serve a number of different functions in a Microsoft Word document. The watermark can consist of a word, such as “confidential” to …
How to Hide the Browse in Bridge Option in Photoshop CS5
If you have been using Photoshop CS5 for a little while, then you have probably accidentally clicked the Browse in Bridge option instead of Open. …
How to Exit Full Screen Mode in Photoshop CS5
Adobe Photoshop CS5 has a lot of different functions that you can access by pressing combinations of keys on your keyboard. You can even create …
How to Merge Files in Powerpoint 2010
When you create a lot of Powerpoint presentations, especially when they are about similar topics, it is likely that you will have a slide that …
How to Remove a Background Picture in Word 2010
Images can be added to a Word document in a number of different ways, and the correct way to do so will depend on the …
How to Show All Formatting Marks in Word 2010
Do you rely on the formatting marks in Microsoft Word for layout reasons? This can be particularly important for writers whose publications have stringent requirements, …
How to Remove Highlighting in Word 2010
When you collaborate on a Word document with a group of people, there are several different methods that are often applied to draw attention to …
How to Show Gridlines in Word 2010
You may be used to seeing horizontal and vertical lines in an Excel spreadsheet, but you may be wondering if it’s possible to have them …
How to Add a New Worksheet in Excel 2010
The Microsoft Excel files that you have saved on your computer, and that you occasionally share with work colleagues or teachers, have file names with …
How to Print Background Images in Word 2010
Microsoft Word 2010 includes a variety of options for adding pictures to your document. In many cases, these pictures will print along with the document …
Where is the Developer Tab in Excel 2013?
The navigational system in Microsoft Excel 2013 is based around a ribbon of tools and options at the top of the window. Different settings and …
How to Fix a Slow Cursor in Excel 2013
Is your mouse moving slowly in Microsoft Excel 2013, making it difficult for you to perform the functions that you need? This can occur because …
How to Zip a Powerpoint 2010 File
Many Powerpoint files can become very large, especially if you have included a lot of media such as pictures, audio, or video. If a Powerpoint presentation …
How to Stop Word 2010 from Underlining Misspelled Words
Microsoft Word 2010 has a robust spelling and grammar checker that can help to resolve the most common mistakes. The checkers can be run manually …
How to Insert a Footnote in Word 2010
Footnotes are found in a variety of different document types, as they can be useful when a topic requires further explanation, but may not fit …
How to Turn on Automatic Calculation in Excel 2010
Are you working with a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2010 where you change a cell that is included in a formula, but the result of …
How to Change a Worksheet Name in Excel 2010
Splitting data up into individual worksheets in a Microsoft Excel file is an efficient way to organize information. It also prevents you from needing to …
How to Show the Margin Ruler in Word 2010
Many document formatting requirements dictate that margins need to be a specific size. One effective way to achieve this is with the use of the …
How to Put Parentheses Around Negative Numbers in Excel 2010
When you are working with a lot of data in Microsoft Excel 2010, it is often beneficial to format certain types of data so that they …
How to Hide the Scroll Bars in Excel 2010
When your Excel worksheet starts to fill up more than the visible cells on your screen, then you will need to a way to view …
How to Turn Off the Attachment Previewer in Outlook 2013
If you have Outlook 2013 set up to use the Preview panel, then you have probably noticed that you can view a preview of an …
Windows 7 Screen Upside Down – How to Fix It
Have you ever walked away from your computer screen, only to come back and find that everything was upside down? This can happen either as …
How to Put a Control Panel Icon on the Desktop in Windows 7
There are an incredible amount of settings and options that you can configure in Windows 7 to suit your preferences. Whether you want to change …
How to Add a Border to a Picture in Word 2010
While some pictures that are inserted into Word documents are ideally suited for their intended use, it is fairly common for a picture to need …
Copy Cell Formatting from One Cell to Another in Excel 2010
Cell formatting, much like the formulas that you use within those cells, is an important element of how data in an Excel 2010 spreadsheet is …
How to Remove Cell Formatting from Selected Cells in Excel 2010
Almost every Excel user has encountered a situation where the data that they enter into a cell is not displaying the way that they intended. …
How to Make Spotify Not Open on Startup in Windows 7
Music programs like iTunes and Spotify are popular options for managing and listening to music on your computer. But, like many programs that you install …
How to Replace All in Word 2010
One of the best features in Microsoft Word is all of the great tools that are available to help you with proofreading. You may already …
How to Delete Cell Contents in Excel 2010
Sometimes you no longer need the data that is entered into a cell. Whether the data is incorrect or it has been updated, there are …
How to Select Non-Adjacent Cells in Excel 2010
If you have been using Microsoft Excel for at least a short amount of time, then you have probably encountered a situation where you needed …
How to Display a Formula Result in a Text Box in Excel 2010
Text boxes can be a useful tool in Microsoft Excel. One particular example is when your spreadsheet has a lot of data in it, but …
How to Copy a Worksheet to Its Own Workbook in Excel 2010
When you work with Excel 2010 often for work or school, you may eventually find that you are using the same data over and over …
How to Allow Outlook 2013 to Connect to the Internet
We have previously written about enabling or disabling the weather bar in Outlook 2013, but there is a specific situation where the setting for the …
How to Unhide Everything in Excel 2010
Hiding rows, columns or worksheets in Microsoft Excel is an effective way to stop displaying information in your spreadsheet without deleting it. Whether this is …
How to Remove the File Name from a Printed Document in Windows 7 Notepad
Notepad is a free text editor included with every copy of Windows 7, and it provides a very basic tool for creating and printing text …
Where is the Recycle Bin in Windows 7?
The Trash Can or Recycle Bin icon in Windows has been a part of desktop computer layouts for years. Deleted items went there, and you could …
Why Is Excel 2010 Showing the Formulas Instead of the Answers?
You may discover that you need Excel to show results instead of formulas when you enter a formula that remains visible. An Excel spreadsheet can …
How to Install a New Font for Word 2010
Fonts are a very important part of a document, especially when the visual presentation of the document plays a major part in its appeal. So …
How to Convert Powerpoint to Video in Powerpoint 2010
It is not difficult to imagine a Powerpoint presentation as a video. If your presentation includes recorded narration and specified timings, then it already has …
How to Vertically Center Text in an Excel 2010 Cell
A cell in a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet can contain a variety of different types of information, and many of the possibilities will result in …
How to Make All Rows the Same Height in Excel 2010
You may already know that you can change the height of a row in Microsoft Excel 2010, but it can be tedious when you need …
How to Remove a Header Image in Excel 2010
Some organizations like to add watermark images to their Excel files, either as a means to identify the source of the file or to add …
How to Remove a Hyperlink in Excel 2010
Microsoft Excel 2010 is capable of adding hyperlinks to text that you have entered into cells in your worksheet. These links can either be added …
How to Add a Name and Page Number in Word 2010
When you are creating a document for school or an organization, they tend to have preferred formatting methods. This can include settings like the amount …
How to Stop Printing Row and Column Headings in Excel 2010
Excel 2010 offers a variety of options that can be added to or removed from your printed worksheets. One of these options is the ability …
How to Remove the Percentage Symbol in Excel 2010
Cells in an Excel spreadsheet can contain many different kinds of data, and they can be formatted in many different ways. If you are working …
How to Open a JPG With Photoshop By Default in Windows 7
You likely have a lot of programs on your computer that are able to view .jpg files. If you are just looking at them, then …
How to Spell Check a Worksheet in Microsoft Excel 2010
Spell check is a commonly used utility in Microsoft Word to locate and fix words that have been misspelled. But Word documents are not the …
How to Enable Hyphenation in Word 2010
Microsoft Word 2010 is set up to avoid hyphenation by default, but there are certain situations where hyphenation might be helpful or beneficial. Often this …