Text messaging has become a very common method of communication for many smartphone owners. It’s so simple to create a new text message conversation and send information to someone that you may discover that you are making far fewer phone calls. The standard way to send a text message is to simply tap inside the … Read more
While you may already be familiar with specific formatting requirements that you need for school or work when working in Microsoft Word, it’s also possible that you need to use specific formatting options in Microsoft Excel. One such requirement is to add a filename to the header on an Excel spreadsheet. When you have a … Read more
Your iPhone Home screen can display a number of different types of notifications whether the device is locked on unlocked. If you also have an Apple Watch, then that can be customized to display activity notifications, calendar notifications, and other notifications on the watch face as well. But if you use your calendar a lot … Read more
When you start typing numbers into a cell in Google Sheets, that data will appear at the right side of the cell by default. This setting is called alignment, and it’s the way that Google Sheets and other spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel handle the way that your information is displayed in your cells. But … Read more
Google Apps and Microsoft Office include comparable programs for a number of different productivity tasks. You can use Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel to create spreadsheets, Google Slides or Powerpoint to create slideshows, and Google Docs or Microsoft Word to edit documents. Both MS Word and Google Docs give you a handful of formatting options … Read more
Many of the applications that you use every day will have a way for you to search through the text that appears on the screen or in the file that is currently open. Often this will be accessible by choosing a “Find” option from a menu or using the Ctrl + F keyboard shortcut. Sometimes … Read more
Keeping track of all of your electronic devices can be difficult, especially if you have multiple devices with you when you leave home. This is especially true for smaller items like Airpods, which are very compact, even when they are in the charging case. Plus you may be taking your Airpods in and out of … Read more
It’s common for many word processing applications to use single line spacing by default. A single space looks good, and more space between lines can seem like a waste of paper, or an attempt to needlessly lengthen a document. But it’s possible that you need to use double spacing for your documents in Word 2010, … Read more
Microsoft Office users often have experience with changing page margins in their documents, although that experience is likely with Microsoft Word rather than Microsoft Excel. Many schools and organizations have strict document requirements, and document page margins are often a part of those requirements. But you can change your page margins in Microsoft Excel, too, … Read more
If you haven’t used the formulas that Microsoft Excel provides then you may not realize just how powerful the application can be. While its formatting and sorting options can be helpful in evaluating data, there is a lot that you can accomplish when you start entering formulas into your cells to find values and determine … Read more