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But if you are also going to be printing your presentation, either with your speaker notes for your own personal use, or as a handout for your audience, then you may find that your skipped slides are being printed, too. Fortunately there is a setting on the print menu that you can adjust which will prevent this from happening. How to Exclude Skipped Slides When Printing in Google Slides The steps in this article were performed in the desktop version of the Google Chrome Web browser, but will also work for other desktop browsers like Safari, Edge, or Firefox....

This can be very useful in a lot of situations, and it something that will only continue to improve as time goes by. Your Apple Watch can also use the Hey Siri feature, which can be helpful if your iPhone isn’t nearby. However, you might find that the Hey Siri feature on the Apple Watch is a little too sensitive, and that it activates itself when you don’t want it to....

But you might find that you need to stop those Activity alerts for a day if they are disruptive (or demoralizing) to what you are doing. Fortunately there is an option in the Activity menu of the Apple Watch iPhone app that lets you choose to turn off all of the Activity alerts for a day. Want to mute all of the sounds on the watch? Our how to turn off sound on Apple Watch guide will show you how....

Unfortunately, this can work against you when devices start to pair and you don’t want them to. Luckily you can learn how to turn off Bluetooth on iPad so that the feature is no longer active and other devices can’t pair with it. How to Shut Off the iPad Bluetooth Our guide continues below with additional information on how to turn off Bluetooth on iPad, including another method with pictures....

Fortunately you can customize these notifications, called Breathe Reminders, and you can even choose to turn them off completely. Our tutorial below will show you where to find this setting so that you can disable the Breathe Reminders on your Apple Watch and only use the Breathe app on your schedule. There are a lot of other things on the watch that you might want to change over time. One such thing is the password, which you can disable with our how to turn off passcode on Apple Watch article....

But there might be certain sounds that you hear which you wouldn’t mind muting. One such sound is the one that plays when you are typing on the keyboard, such as when typing a text message. Fortunately this sound is adjustable, and you can choose to turn it off if you would like. So continue reading the guide below and learn how to turn off keyboard sounds in Android Marshmallow....

The guide below will provide you with several options for shutting off the text tones on your iPhone in iOS 9 so that it becomes a much quieter activity. Disable Text Message Sounds on an iPhone 6 The steps in this article will adjust the settings for text messages on your iPhone so that there is no sound when you send a text message, or when you receive a text message....

But if that day has come and you are ready to start deleting the unwanted programs on your computer, then thankfully it’s a relatively short process. Our tutorial below will show you how to find and uninstall a program in Windows 10 if you have decided that you don’t need it anymore. Deleting an App or Program in Windows 10 The steps in this guide were performed in Windows 10....

Storage space management on an iPhone has always been a problem, especially if you have an iPhone with a 16 GB capacity. That space can fill up very quickly, and figuring out how to manage it often requires the deletion of apps, music, pictures, or videos. This always had to be done manually, but iOS 10 has brought along a new feature that will automatically optimize your music storage when your iPhone is running low on space....

Many of these options focus on the display and performance aspect of the browser, but other options concern the content that is remembered and stored by your browser. Some of these options include the creation of bookmarks, which you actively choose to have the browser remember, while others are focused on the data that Chrome chooses to remember about your browsing habits. For single-user computers, remembering password and website history data is very helpful, as it will help to prompt you when you do not remember a complete website address, and it can pre-populate form fields so that you do not need to continuously type in your contact information....

One unfortunate side effect of AirDrop, however, is that there is an Everyone option that can be problematic when you are connected to a large Wi-Fi network, such as a hotel or coffee shop. This means that anyone on that Wi-Fi network can send you a picture or file through AirDrop. Luckily this setting can be changed to Contacts Only so that you only people who are in your Contacts list can send you files via AirDrop....

Message Previews in iPhone 5 Notifications I like to use this feature personally because I can know the contents of short messages without having to unlock my device. Since many of the messages I receive are very short, I can often see the entire message in the preview. If you think that this is something that could benefit you, follow the instructions to set it up on your own iPhone 5....

Fortunately, our complete guide to text messaging on iPhone provides a lot of different information that can help you quickly become more comfortable with it. SMS (short message service) and MMS (multimedia message service) are simple and effective ways to share information with your friends, family, and colleagues. The Messages app on your iPhone 5 allows you to use these features to share information and media files easily, and there are a lot of different elements of the Messages app that you can learn to use....

Different versions of Android can have different features, and bugs that exist in earlier versions of the operating system may not exist in newer versions. If you are troubleshooting a problem or wondering why you can’t do something on your phone, then a good piece of information to have is the operating system version. Our guide below will show you where to find the Android version number on your Google Pixel 4A....

While the iPhone does offer a description of this setting, you may still be wondering what Offload Unused Apps means on your iPhone. This option provides a way to automatically manage some of your storage in a way that won’t affect existing data or documents for some apps. When you have enabled the “Offload Unused Apps” setting, the iPhone will automatically delete apps that haven’t been used in a while....

But AirDrop can make it possible for people that you don’t know to send you files if you have AirDrop set to accept files from everyone. Our guide below will show you where to find the AirDrop setting on your iPhone 7 so that you can set it to only receive files from contacts, or even prevent anyone from sending you AirDrop files at all. How to Change the AirDrop Setting on an iPhone 7 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 12....

But there is a noticeable set of advanced functions that are not accessible by default, and those are found on the Developer tab. So if you have been looking for the developer tab in Word 2010 and cannot find it, then you can follow our steps below to learn how to add it. Adding the Developer Tab in Word 2010 you will only need to follow these steps once for your installation of Word 2010....

The iPhone is responsible for a significant percentage of all the pictures that are taken on the planet, and many of them look pretty good. But if you have taken (what you thought) was a good picture and sent it to someone, only for them to tell you that it was blurry, then you might be wondering what is going on. Our guide below will show you several settings that you can check which might be contributing to the blurry images sent from your iPhone....

Other applications provide options for adjusting units of measurement, much like Microsoft Word does if you need to use inches or centimeters for your margins. Setting the display on your Photoshop CS5 installation is something that can take a while to get just right. As you use the program more and more, you will find that there are certain elements of the program that you need to change in order to optimize your image editing....

Our tutorial below is going to show you how to insert a picture into your header. This is superior to using a background picture in Excel 2013, because an image in the header will be repeated on each page of your spreadsheet, while a background picture will not. Putting a Picture in an Excel 2013 Header to Simulate a Watermark The steps in this tutorial will assume that you have an image that you want to use as your watermark, and that you know where it is located on your computer....