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If you have a security passphrase set up on your iPhone 5, then it will need to be entered before the phone can be unlocked and accessed. Additionally, when your phone is locked, it is not wasting the battery life that is used to display your app icons and light the screen. But if you find that the auto-lock feature is activating too quickly or too slowly, then you can adjust the amount of time of inactivity that the device waits before it locks itself....

Using the “Close Other Tabs” Option in Google Chrome Until recently I had not had much of a reason to ever right-click a tab in Google Chrome. I always thought that these tabs only served a very basic function, so I didn’t consider the possibility that they might be hiding some other interesting commands. One interesting feature contained on the tab right-click menu is the ability to reopen a closed tab....

Occasionally it might recognize numerical data and determine that you are entering currency or dates, then apply that type of formatting to it. Other times you might be typing names or locations, or any type of primarily-text content, and it will format that as text. But you may be wondering how to convert text to numbers in Excel if you are having trouble getting formulas to execute properly. You can change the format for a range of cells in an Excel sheet by right-clicking on the data, choosing Format Cells, then selecting one of the options in the column on the left side of the window....

On newer iPhone models and newer versions of iOS the screens will look a little different. Our how to set alarm on iPhone 11 guide deals with these newer situations. Set Your iPhone Alarm for Work Days Only One nice thing about the iPhone alarm system is that you can set up multiple alarms and customize all of them to go off on different days. So even if you need to get up at a different time every day, you can configure your alarms so that is possible....

This is a helpful option when you want to have a picture printed as a 5×7 image, a square, or any of the other available ratios. So continue reading below to find out how you can edit your iPhone pictures in this manner. Change an iPhone Picture to a Different Aspect Ratio The steps in this article were performed in iOS 8, on an iPhone 5. The editing interface for pictures changes often, so they exact steps to perform this adjustment may vary slightly in earlier versions of iOS....

Deleting Old Contacts in iOS 7 Note that once you delete a contact, it will be gone from your phone. It may still be available in an old backup if you restore through iTunes, but these can be problematic to restore, particularly if you are syncing your contacts in iCloud. So it might be a good idea to save that phone number or email address somewhere else if you aren’t entirely positive that you want to delete it permanently....

But you may discover that adding an artist to a station changes the types of songs that are played, and you may not like the change that occurs. Fortunately you can remove artists that you have added to your iTunes Radio station and modify the influence that they have over the songs that you hear. Have you ever used an iTunes gift card before? Find out where to look and see if you still have some leftover credit from that iTunes gift card....

Our short guide below will show you how to select the cells that you wish to display as fractions, then change the formatting of those selected cells so that they are displayed as fractions. Switch from Decimals to Fractions in Excel 2010 The steps below will show you how to change the format of the cells that you select. Numbers entered into cells that are not selected will still be displayed as decimals by default....

A common setting that many people need to use involves making the amount of space between their lines larger. Our tutorial below will show you how to double space in Word, even if you have already written the document and it is currently using single spacing, or some other line spacing size. How to Change Spacing in Word 2013 to Double Spacing Our article continues below with additional information on how to double space in Word 2013, including pictures of these steps....

But if you want to watch a movie and either won’t have Internet or don’t want to use cellular data, then you might be looking for a way to download movies to your iPhone from HBO Max. Our tutorial below will show you how to accomplish this so that you can watch HBO Max movies offline. How to Save Movies to Your iPhone from HBO Max Our guide continues below with additional information on downloading iPhone HBO Max movies, including pictures of these steps....

But a lot of the content on HBO Now isn’t appropriate for children, so you might be worried about them accidentally watching something that they shouldn’t. One way to mitigate this is to use parental controls in the HBO Now app. Our guide below will show you how to set this up. Our how to do subscript in Google Docs article can show you some of the useful ways you can edit and customize your documents with the free Google word processing application....

But sometimes your device will be connecting to a network that you don’t want it to. Luckily you can forget your iPad 2 wireless networks if you want to update a password or stop connecting to a network entirely. How to Forget an iPad 2 Wireless Network Our guide continues below with additional information on forgetting iPad wireless networks, including pictures of these steps. There are a lot of different ways that your iPad tries to make things easier for you, but one way that permeates an assortment of apps is the remembering of passwords....

One effective way to manage a lot of alarms is to give them a name. iPhone alarms can be edited to include a label or name that display under the alarm time on the menu. That way you can scroll through the list of alarms until you find the correct one, without needing to worry that you picked the alarm that goes off at 6 AM on Tuesday and Thursday instead of the one that goes off at 6 AM on Monday and Friday....

But you can definitely encounter situations where text boxes are a preferable choice for some data or information. The ability to move the text box alone can make it appealing, and you can even have a linked cell in a text box so that you can display that data in the box. Excel 2010’s system of cells provides for an efficient way to organize and manipulate your data. But occasionally you may be using Excel for a purpose that requires certain data to be placed in a text box instead of a cell....

Customizing an Excel spreadsheet can make it easier to read. This is especially true of large spreadsheets that contain rows and columns of very similar data. One way that people like to simplify data organization is by using cell fill colors to indicate that certain types of data are related or similar. But if you start making changes to the values in those cells, or if you move around a lot of data, this cell fill characteristic can get a little messy....

But any folders that you create will remain in the position on the Home screen at which the folder was created. Fortunately, however, you can move folders in the same way that you move individual apps. So if, for example, you put a bunch of default apps that you cannot delete into a folder to hide them away, then you could drag that folder to a secondary Home screen. Our guide below will show you a couple of different options for organizing your folders....

But if you really need to use that app, then you might want to make sure that your iPhone is going to install its update as soon as possible. Luckily it’s possible for your to prioritize queed app updates on an iPhone. Our tutorial below will show you how to do this. How to Make Your iPhone Install an Update Next Our guide continues below with additional information on how to force your iPhone to update a specific app next, including pictures of these steps....

How to Add Bullets in Excel 2013 Our guide continues below with additional information on adding a bulleted or numbered list in Excel cell, including pictures of these steps. Adding bullets in Excel is something that might seem like an obvious feature to include in the program but, if you are reading this article, you have probably found that it is not the case. Microsoft Word and Powerpoint make it very easy to create bulleted or numbered lists, and you can also learn how to put a bullet point on Google Slides....

But you might need to update some of that information, which can leave you looking for a method for how to refresh a pivot table in Excel. Fortunately, this is something that many pivot table users need to do, so Excel has a quick way for you to perform this data refresh. How to Refresh Microsoft Excel 2013 Pivot Table Data Our guide continues below with additional information on how to refresh a pivot table in excel, including pictures of these steps....

But if you have installed an add-in and discovered that it either isn’t as helpful as you wanted, or that it has some adverse effect on how Excel operates, then you may wish to remove that add-in. Our guide below will show you how to turn off an add-in in Excel 2010. Removing Add-Ins in Microsoft Excel 2010 The steps in this article will show you how to remove an active add-in from memory in Microsoft Excel 2010....