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While Microsoft Word is often thought of as a text editor, it is much more than that. Word users are able to add pictures and videos, perform a lot of formatting and generally customize their documents in a variety of ways. One way that you can achieve this customization is by including a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly within the document itself. This will display the contents of that spreadsheet in the document so that document readers can view the data in that file if it’s important to the document....

Adding Slides from Another Slideshow in Powerpoint 2010 This tool is extremely helpful when you have an important informational slide that is valuable in more than one presentation. Once the slide is correct in one presentation, you can continuously add it to new slideshows without worrying about spelling mistakes or incorrect information. Additionally, if creating that slide required a lot of legwork that would be difficult to duplicate, you can take advantage of your initial hard work while simultaneously improving your new presentation....

Newer iPad models have done away with this option, but older iPad models and iOS versions had an option where you could lock your iPad to the landscape orientation. Our tutorial below will walk you through these steps. How to Enable the iPad 2 Landscape Lock Our guide continues below with additional information on loving the iPad in landscape mode, including pictures of these steps. The iPad is pretty adept at correctly orientating itself based on how it is being held....

Finding and Using the Elliptical Marquee Tool in Photoshop CS5 Like most other programs in Windows 7, the right-click menu serves an important function in Photoshop CS5. You have access to additional menu options, including some items where the use of the right-click menu provides a much needed shortcut. Using the right-click menu in the toolbox at the left side of the Photoshop window is definitely one of those situations....

but that’s not always the ideal solution, as the information may not fit with the main content. A footnote is a good solution to this problem, and Microsoft Word has a way for you to add one. Our tutorial below will show you how to create a footnote in Microsoft Word. Summary – How to Insert a Footnote in a Word Document Our guide continues below with additional information on how to make a footnote in Microsoft Word 2016, including pictures of these steps....

But if Outlook is set to open messages in the current window, then this doesn’t allow you to have multiple windows open at the same time. Our tutorial below will show you how to pop out replies and forwards in Microsoft Outlook so that you can better track the tasks that you need to perform. How to Make Microsoft Outlook Replies Open in a New Window Our guide continues below with additional information on how to make replies and forwards pop out by default in Outlook, including pictures of these steps....

Creating and presenting a slideshow is often not the entire picture when you are giving a presentation. Whether it’s for school or for your job, it’s very likely that you will need to provide handouts to everyone attending the presentation, or at least a few people that will need a hard copy of the information you have given. While there are several ways to do this, often the easiest way is to simply print the presentation and give them a copy....

The default recording setting on the iPhone 6 Plus is to record video at 30 FPS, but you can change a setting so that the device starts recording at 60 FPS instead. This is helpful if you are recording a lot of fast moving action, as the increase in the number of recorded frames can help to reduce blurring that occurs at a lower FPS. Increase the FPS Rate of Video recording on the iPhone 6 Plus The steps in this article were performed using an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 8....

For information on removing other apps from your phone as well, find out more with our how to delete an app on iPhone 8 tutorial. We will share the steps needed to do either option in our tutorials below. Step 2: Tap and hold the app icon until it starts to shake, then press the x button at the top-left corner of the app icon. Step 3: Touch the Delete button to confirm that you want to delete the app....

But once you have made the recommended changes to the document, the highlighting on the text is no longer necessary, yet still remains. This can make the document look messy and unprofessional. Fortunately it is a short process to remove the highlighting from text in your document by following our short guide below. Clear Highlighting from Text in Word 2010 The steps in this article will show you how to remove highlighting from a specific word....

While some of the events that you want to get rid of are ones that you created yourself, it’s possible that you have holidays on your calendar that you don’t need. Our how to remove holidays from iPhone calendar guide will show you how to take all of those holidays off your calendar so that you aren’t getting reminders or notifications about them anymore. How to Get Rid of Holidays on iPhone Calendar Our guide continues below with additional information on how to remove the holidays from an iPhone calendar, including pictures of these steps....

If you find that you often have part of a document that you are unsure about, then the Strikethrough formatting option can be very useful to you. You can use or remove strikethrough in a Google Docs document by opening the document, selecting the text, then clicking the Format option in the menu at the top of the screen, and selecting the Strikethrough option from there. By drawing a line through a selection of text in your document, you can indicate that the selection should be disregarded, but you don’t actually need to delete it in case you think that you might want that information later....

You may already be familiar with the handles that appear around an Excel image, which you can click to activate, then drag to resize the picture. Handles on the side and top will stretch or shrink the image, while the corner handles will resize while maintaining proportions. Those handles are identified below. But what if you need a picture in your spreadsheet to be an exact size? Fortunately there is a way to do that in Excel, too, which we will outline below....

These directions can be provided based on whether you’re walking, in a car, or on public transportation. But the Maps app can be customized to display other things, too, such as the weather. Knowing the current weather conditions when opening the app can let you know how to dress for what’s outside, as well as whether or not you might need an umbrella. Our guide below is going to show you where to find this setting and enable weather conditions in the default iPhone Maps app....

Therefore, the lack of utility generated by Excel 2013’s Start screen might leave you looking for a way to remove it. Our guide below will direct you to the location of this setting so that you can disable and allow Excel to open directly to a blank workbook. Bypass the Excel 2013 Start Screen on Launch The steps below will modify the settings for your Excel 2013 installation so that Excel will open to a new, blank workbook whenever you launch the program....

One of the most commonly-used applications on your computer is probably your Web browser, so it’s helpful to have that open by default. Our guide will show you how to make Chrome open when your computer opens so that you can start browsing immediately. How to Launch Chrome at Windows Startup Everyone uses their computer in a different way, so there is no blueprint for the best way to configure your computer....

Fortunately you don’t have to let Android delete your old messages automatically. Our guide below will show you where to find the setting that controls this action so that you can turn it off. How to Turn Off the Delete Old Messages Setting on a Samsung Galaxy On5 The steps in this article were performed with a Samsung Galaxy On5 in the Android Marshmallow operating system. These steps assume that your phone is currently deleting old messages when the maximum number of text, multimedia and chat and file sharing messages has been exceeded....

If your iPhone is currently set up to display email message previews on the lock screen, then you may wish to stop this behavior so that others cannot see information about your email. Our article below will show you how to disable the email lock screen preview option for an email account on your device. Disabling Email Previews on the Lock Screen These steps were performed on an iPhone 5, in iOS 8....

But if you decide that you would rather keep video messages indefinitely, then you can adjust the settings on the Messages menu so that these video messages never expire. Prevent Expiration of iPhone 5 Videos in iOS 8 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 5 using the iOS 8 operating system. Video message expiration was not added until iOS 8, and is not available on earlier versions of the operating system....

You can access the apps on the Apple Watch by pressing the crown button on the side of the device. Depending on how your apps are currently set to display then these apps can be shown as a grid of app icons, or they can be sorted into a list. if you find that it’s difficult to find the desired app with grid view, or if you can’t see enough of your apps at once with list view, then you may be looking for a way to change that....