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How to Change the Background in Google Docs: A Step-by-Step Guide

December 12, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

Changing the background in Google Docs is a straightforward process that requires you to go to the ‘File’ menu, select ‘Page Setup’, click on ‘Page …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Background, Google Docs How-To Guides
iOS 17 - How to Turn Off Background App Refresh On iPhone

iOS 17 – How to Turn Off Background App Refresh On iPhone

November 10, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

In the fast-paced world of smartphones, understanding the intricacies of your iPhone’s settings can be a game-changer, especially with iOS 17. One of the less …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags Background, iOS 17, iPhone How-To Guides
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Change the Photoshop CS5 Background Screen Color

October 3, 2023October 3, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

You can adjust the color of the Photoshop Cs5 background screen by clicking Edit > Preferences > Interface. Next, click Standard Screen Mode and choose …

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Categories Programs Tags Adobe Photoshop How-To Guides, Background
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How to Change Safari Background on iPhone 13

September 17, 2023March 22, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

The iPhone 13 has a lot of different ways that you can customize the device. Some of these options are pretty unusual and can involve …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags Background, iPhone 13, iPhone How-To Guides, Safari
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How to Use a Black Background in the Reddit iPhone App

June 30, 2023February 1, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

Many popular apps and websites that you use on your iPhone will have a way for you to switch to night mode. The Reddit app …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags Background, iPhone 7, iPhone How-To Guides
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How to Change the Background in iOS 7 on the iPhone 5

June 10, 2023January 24, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

Your iPhone has a bunch of different settings that you can use to customize the way certain screens look. One of these options is the …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags Background, iPhone 5, iPhone How-To Guides
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How to Change Background Color in Word 2010

July 15, 2023October 25, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

New MS Word documents will usually have a white background. This is probably fine for most normal documents, especially if it’s for work or school. …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Change Desktop Background Size in Windows 7

July 6, 2023September 13, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Have you been going through your computer and personalizing the areas where that’s an option? One of the places you see most often on your …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Featured Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows How-To Guides
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How to Rotate a Desktop Background Picture in Windows 7

July 18, 2023September 13, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Have you found the perfect desktop background picture, gone through the process of setting it, then found that it’s turned the wrong way? A lot …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows How-To Guides
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How to Hide Background Graphics in Powerpoint 2013

June 23, 2023April 8, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Pictures in a slideshow are usually an important part of making the presentation look good. A bunch of text on slides, regardless of how compelling, …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Powerpoint 2013, Microsoft Powerpoint How-To Guides
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How to Make a Word 2013 Background Image

July 3, 2023March 14, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Word 2013 is a full-featured word-processing program that allows you to customize your documents in nearly any way that you can imagine. While this …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Make a Background White in Photoshop CS5

June 7, 2023February 21, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

There are a lot of different tools in Adobe Photoshop, and even very experienced users won’t touch a lot of them. This means that there …

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Categories Programs Tags Adobe Photoshop How-To Guides, Background
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How to Remove an Excel 2010 Watermark

July 15, 2023December 1, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

While there is no direct way to add a watermark in Excel, there are a variety of alternatives, including header and footer tools, basic image …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Make an Excel White Background in Excel 2010

June 30, 2023November 3, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Unless you have made some changes to the default setting for new workbooks in Microsoft Excel 2010, then you probably have white cell backgrounds by …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Print Background Color in Word 2013

July 18, 2023October 20, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Word documents let you select a page background color from a Colors dialog box, allowing you to view the document with that color on …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Insert Draft Watermark in Word 2013

July 5, 2023June 3, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

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 …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Remove a Watermark in Word 2013

June 27, 2023March 10, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

There are some uncommon document formatting options that you may encounter in Microsoft Word, which can be difficult to delete. One such option is a …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Fill a Background Layer in Photoshop CS5

July 5, 2023February 25, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

There are a lot of features in Adobe Photoshop that can make it easier to perform certain tasks. For example, you may be wondering how …

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Categories Programs Tags Adobe Photoshop How-To Guides, Background
How to Add the Same Background Picture to Every Slide in Google Slides

How to Add the Same Background Picture to Every Slide in Google Slides

July 5, 2023June 24, 2020 by Matthew Burleigh

Google Slides offers a handful of different themes that you can use to customize the appearance of your slideshow. You can then incorporate the steps …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Background, Google Slides How-To Guides
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How to Change the Theme in Google Slides

July 25, 2023February 15, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

The theme that you use in a presentation can dramatically alter the overall appearance of your content. Great content can appear bland on a boring …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Background, Google Slides How-To Guides
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How to Hide the Background When Printing in Google Slides

July 5, 2023January 29, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

Formatting your presentation with a background in Google Slides can make it much more visually appealing when giving that presentation on a computer. The addition …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Background, Google Slides How-To Guides
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How to Change the Page Color in Google Docs

July 21, 2023October 9, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

There are many ways that you can modify the appearance of your document in the Google Docs application, but perhaps the biggest change that you …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Background, Google Docs How-To Guides
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Why Isn’t Word 2013 Printing My Background Colors and Images?

July 3, 2023February 16, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Word 2013 has a number of different templates that can help you design newsletters, flyers, birthday cards, and more. One of the first things that …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Delete a Watermark in Word 2010

July 19, 2023May 20, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

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 …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Remove a Background Picture in Word 2010

July 27, 2023May 18, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

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 …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Print Background Images in Word 2010

May 31, 2023May 7, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

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 …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Remove the Background from a Picture in Excel 2010

June 30, 2023February 18, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

You likely already know how to insert a picture into your Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, but what you might not realize is that there are some …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Change the Background App Refresh iPad Setting

August 16, 2023August 21, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

You can enable or disable the Background App Refresh iPad setting by going to Settings > General > Background App Refresh button > selecting Background …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags Background, Battery, iPad How-To Guides
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How to Add a Background Picture in Powerpoint 2013

June 8, 2023July 15, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

Powerpoint presentations are very visual in nature, and are often improved with the help of visual aids like pictures and graphs. So you might decide …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Powerpoint 2013, Microsoft Powerpoint How-To Guides
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How to Change the Background Color in Word 2013

July 27, 2023June 30, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

You can customize the appearance of a Word document in a lot of different ways, but you might not know that you can change the …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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Can You Put a Watermark in Excel 2013?

June 24, 2023June 23, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

If your company or institution has specific document requirements meant to imply ownership of a document, then you may find yourself wondering whether you can …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Insert a Watermark in Word 2013

July 5, 2023May 28, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

Document watermarks provide a simple way to visually identify a document without reading it. This is beneficial if your workspace contains a lot of different …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Change the Desktop Background in Windows 8

June 3, 2023May 17, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

One of the most common ways that people choose to customize their computers is with a different Desktop background. This option is still available in …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft Windows How-To Guides
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How to Change the Desktop Picture in Windows 7

June 19, 2023May 8, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

The desktop on your Windows 7 computer is the first thing that you see after you log into Windows, and it is one of the …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows How-To Guides
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How to Change the Background on Your iPhone 5

August 1, 2023September 5, 2013 by Matthew Burleigh

There are a ton of ways to customize the way that your iPhone 5 looks and behaves. We have discussed many of those ways on …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags Background, iPhone 5, iPhone How-To Guides
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How to Insert a Background Picture in Excel 2010

June 15, 2023April 25, 2013 by Matthew Burleigh

If you frequently interact with Excel documents created by other people, especially people that spend a lot of their day customizing and creating spreadsheets, then …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides
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How to Use a Gradient as a Background in Powerpoint 2010

June 2, 2023July 30, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

Have you ever seen a gradient Powerpoint background and wondered how the slideshow creator got it? While they might have downloaded and set that picture …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Powerpoint How-To Guides
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How to Remove Background from a Picture in Word 2010

June 9, 2023July 5, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Word 2010 has a surprisingly robust set of image editing tools, including some very advanced tools that you might not even think were possible …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Word How-To Guides
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How to Make a Windows 7 Desktop Background Slideshow

July 3, 2023June 9, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

Windows 7 has so many ways that you can customize the various display elements that it contains that you will find yourself continuing to learn …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows How-To Guides
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How to Put a Picture as a Background in Powerpoint 2010

July 17, 2023May 23, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

By their very nature, Powerpoint 2010 presentations need to be eye-catching. The purpose of a Powerpoint slideshow is to catch the reader’s attention and keep …

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Categories Programs Tags Background, Microsoft Powerpoint How-To Guides
how to blur the background in photoshop cs5

How to Blur the Background in Photoshop CS5

June 22, 2023May 18, 2012 by Matthew Burleigh

Have you ever taken a picture of a busy scene but with the intention of highlighting one particular element of that scene? While this might …

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Categories Programs Tags Adobe Photoshop How-To Guides, Background

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