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how to make text really big on an iphone 7

How to Make Text Really Big on an iPhone

October 2, 2023October 2, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

You can use the larger text size options on an iPhone by going to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Larger Text …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags iPhone 7, iPhone How-To Guides, Punctuation
two spaces after period on word 2013

How to Add Two Spaces After Period in Word 2013

June 19, 2023January 18, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

If you have preferences about the spacing in your document, or your school or organization requires specific settings, then you might need to update something …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to switch between keyboards on the iphone

How to Switch Between Keyboards on the iPhone

August 11, 2023January 12, 2023 by Matthew Burleigh

If you speak more than one language, then it can be difficult to find the correct characters when you are typing in that language. Fortunately, …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags iPhone How-To Guides, Punctuation
How to Make Periods Bigger in Microsoft Word

How to Make Periods Bigger in Microsoft Word

June 10, 2023December 4, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Some fonts have a big impact on the way that punctuation looks. Occasionally this can make those characters too small, to the point where they …

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Categories Programs Tags Fonts, Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to create bullet lists in excel 2010

How to Insert Bullet List Items in Excel 2010

July 17, 2023November 25, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

While much of the data that you add to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet might only take up one line, situations might exist where you want …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
stop capitalizing first letter of sentences

How to Stop Word 2013 from Capitalizing the First Word of a Sentence

June 5, 2023October 2, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Usually, when you are typing in Microsoft Word, any word that you type after a period or question mark will be capitalized automatically. While this …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to automatically insert a decimal point in excel 2010

How to Automatically Insert Decimal Point in Excel 2010

June 19, 2023September 12, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Excel then you have probably either forgotten to include a decimal point at some point, or …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2010 How-To Guides, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to increase the number of decimal places in excel 2013

How to Change the Number of Displayed Decimal Places in Excel 2013

July 1, 2023June 16, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Excel 2013 provides a lot of ways for you to change the formatting of your data. There are ways to convert text to numbers …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
google slides uppercase formatting

How to Make Everything Capitalized in Google Slides

September 7, 2023June 6, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Many of the applications that you use every day, like Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, offer a large variety of ways to format …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Google Slides How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to make all text uppercase in excel 2010

How to Change Lowercase to Uppercase in Excel 2010

July 3, 2023June 2, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Despite the annoyance that many people have for caps lock and people that write in all uppercase letters, it does have its place in certain …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to create a bullet list in google slides

How to Add Bullet Points in Google Slides

June 15, 2023May 26, 2022 by Matthew Burleigh

Using lists to present certain types of information can be both useful and attention-grabbing, which makes them great for slideshows and presentations. So you may …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Google Slides How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to toggle case in word 2013

How to Toggle Case in Word 2013

July 14, 2023December 21, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Some of the changes that you will want to make to a Microsoft Word document can seem pretty easy to accomplish. You’ve probably already changed …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to turn off automatic capitalization in google docs

How to Stop Automatically Capitalizing Words in Google Docs

July 3, 2023April 7, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Capitalization in Google Docs occurs the same way that is does in many other programs. You can press the Caps Lock key and make everything …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Google Docs How-To Guides, Punctuation
click the symbol menu, then click none

How to Stop Showing a Dollar Sign in Excel 2013

June 27, 2023March 9, 2021 by Matthew Burleigh

Formatting data properly in Excel can solve a lot of problems that you might have with your formulas, or with readers understanding your data. But …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
how add upside down question mark exclamation point iphone 7

How to Add an Upside Down Question Mark or Exclamation Point on an iPhone 7

June 1, 2023May 17, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

Has someone ever sent you an email or a text message that used a character that you didn’t know was available on the iPhone? There …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags iPhone 7, iPhone How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to remove comma formatting from numbers in excel 2013

How to Display Numbers Without a Comma in Excel 2013

June 15, 2023March 6, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

Are some of the numbers in your spreadsheet currently formatted to display commas as a 1000 separator? This is an option in Excel, and it …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to increase the number of decimal places in google sheets

How to Increase the Number of Displayed Decimal Places in Google Sheets

July 6, 2023February 8, 2018 by Matthew Burleigh

Cells in a spreadsheet can contain a wide variety of data types. Some of that data can take up a lot of room, even leading …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Google Sheets How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to disable smart quotes in google docs

How to Turn Off Smart Quotes in Google Docs

June 5, 2023September 27, 2017 by Matthew Burleigh

Google Docs has its own type of quotation marks, but it makes a lot of people wonder “why are my quotation marks dots?” If this …

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Categories Web Browsers and Applications Tags Google Docs How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to always show two decimal places in excel, even if the second number is a zero

How to Stop Excel from Removing the Second Decimal Place If It’s a Zero

June 25, 2023December 2, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Excel 2013 has a wide range of formatting choices that can be applied to cells in a worksheet. But some of the default formatting choices …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Excel How-To Guides, Punctuation
change the keyboard layout on your iphone 5

How to Change the Style of the English Keyboard on an iPhone 5

June 7, 2023September 20, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

The default keyboard layout for most English keyboards is called QWERTY, which is in reference to the first five letters in the top row of …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags iPhone 5, iPhone How-To Guides, Punctuation
stop automatic numbering

How to Turn Off Automatic Numbered Lists in Word 2013

July 10, 2023June 9, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

Microsoft Word 2013 has a feature where it will automatically continue a numbered list if it thinks that you are starting one. This is helpful …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
get rid of lowercase letters on ipad

How to Get Rid of Lowercase Letters on the iPad Keyboard

June 1, 2023April 20, 2016 by Matthew Burleigh

One change from iOS 9 that I personally dislike is how the keyboard switches between upper and lowercase letters. I have written about turning off …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags iOS 9, iPad How-To Guides, Punctuation
clear all tabs in word 2013

How to Clear All Tab Stops in Word 2013

July 18, 2023November 2, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

The default tab behavior in Microsoft Word 2013 is for a tab location at every half inch. But the needs of your document might dictate that …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
turn off the autocomplete option

How to Turn Off AutoComplete in Outlook 2013

October 20, 2023August 27, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

For those on a quick clock: To turn off AutoComplete in Outlook 2013, simply head to the File tab, click Options, select the Mail tab, …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Outlook 2013, Microsoft Outlook How-To Guides, Punctuation
hyphenation options

How to Enable Hyphenation in Word 2010

June 12, 2023February 24, 2015 by Matthew Burleigh

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 …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
click the capitalize each word option

How to Capitalize Each Word in Word 2013

June 28, 2023December 19, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

Information that is added to a document in Microsoft Word can come from a variety of different places, and it is likely that you might …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
swype keyboard on the iphone 5

How to Get the Swype Keyboard on the iPhone 5

June 1, 2023September 19, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

People who have used Android devices in the past know that there are other types of keyboards available for smartphones. Previously iPhone users had only …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags iPhone How-To Guides, Punctuation
click the none option under hyphenation

How to Turn Off Hyphenation in Word 2013

June 29, 2023August 16, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

You might discover that you need to turn off hyphenation in Word 2013 if your document is automatically including hyphens for words that are splitting …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to switch from uppercase in word 2013

How to Switch from Uppercase in Word 2013

June 16, 2023May 5, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

People have their own preferences when it comes to how they type, and there are some individuals that like to capitalize everything when they type. …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Word 2013, Microsoft Word How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to stop capitalizing the first letter of a sentence in outlook 2013

How to Stop Capitalizing the First Letter in Outlook 2013

June 15, 2023April 1, 2014 by Matthew Burleigh

A lot of programs with AutoCorrect features try to incorporate fixes to many common mistakes that people make when they type. Occasionally, however, you will …

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Categories Programs Tags Microsoft Outlook 2013, Microsoft Outlook How-To Guides, Punctuation
how to stop auto-capitalization on the iPad 2

How to Turn Off Auto-Capitalization on the iPad 2

June 1, 2023August 2, 2013 by Matthew Burleigh

Apple is very focused on making their products as easy to use as possible, and this ideal causes them to add features that are meant …

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Categories Mobile Devices Tags iPad 2, iPad How-To Guides, Punctuation

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