Notice the two ScreenTips in the image above. One displays the shortcut used to make text bold, one does not. These shortcut keys in the ScreenTips are normally on by default. However, if you don’t see them and want to turn them on, we’ll show you how. To begin, open Word, Excel, or Publisher and click the “File” tab. We’re using Word in our example, but turning on the ScreenTips in one of these programs also affects Excel and Publisher....

There isn’t one of us who hasn’t sent an email we wish we could take back (if even just to proofread it one more time). Now with Gmail you can; read on as we show you how to enable the extremely useful Undo button. Why Do I Want To Do This? It happens to the best of us. You fire off an email only to realize that you: spelled your own name wrong, spelled their name wrong, or really don’t actually want to quit your job after all....

There’s a neat tool buried deep in your Mac’s Utilities folder that you may have never heard of, but it will allow you to find the color value (RGB, hexadecimal, or percentage) of anything on your screen. The utilities in the Utilities folder rarely get enough coverage, probably because they’re so specialized that they’re rarely used on a daily basis. That said, you know there’s always that time when you need to do something really specific and you’ve probably downloaded something to do it....

Preview, the image viewer that comes preloaded with every Mac, is one of the best and most feature-rich default image viewers available. So, it shouldn’t be a big surprise that it can do color corrections as well. It’s hard to find an image viewer that everyone is happy with. On Windows, everyone has an opinion as to what’s best, because the default option leaves much to be desired. Preview doesn’t have that problem, being able to perform many tasks like combine and edit images into one PDF file as well as batch resizing, which is always a handy trick....

How often do you load a web page on your phone only to be confronted by awkward layouts, ads that get in the way, and heavy pages that stutter as you scroll them? “Reader mode” is a one-tap solution to reading web pages without the frustration. This is integrated into Safari on iOS and can be enabled as an experimental feature on Chrome for Android. It’s available in most desktop web browsers, too....

PCs don’t have to be power hogs, but they often are. High-powered desktops with gaming-focused dedicated graphics hardware are the most thirsty for energy, but older PCs are typically less energy-efficient than modern ones. This is a particular concern if you want to repurpose an old PC as a media center PC or home server. Depending on the price of electricity in your area, you might actually save money by buying modern, low-power-usage hardware and retiring that old hardware....

By default, Word 2013 does not automatically save backup copies of your documents, but you can easily enable this feature. However, these backup files use the “.wbk” extension. So, how do you open these backup files if you need to access them? Opening Word backup files is easy. When you open Word without opening a document, the “Recent” list of documents displays on the left and templates you can use as a basis for documents displays on the right....

Is Delivery Safe During the Coronavirus Pandemic? Stephen Morse, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, told The Atlantic that “cooked foods are unlikely to be a concern unless they get contaminated after cooking.” You might want to avoid uncooked foods like salad, but “there should be very little risk” with cooked foods that are properly handled. Morse continued: “There can be transmission through contaminated inanimate objects, but we think the most important route of transmission is respiratory droplets....

There are two ways to protect a PDF file: an owner password and a user password. We’ll explain the purpose of each and show you how to apply them to your PDF files. The Owner, or Permissions, password allows you to apply permissions to a PDF file. For example, if you don’t want to allow a PDF file to be printed, or pages to be extracted, you can choose what you want to allow and not allow and apply an owner password to the PDF file....

Here’s something you probably didn’t know you were doing wrong: getting a good night’s sleep. According to a poll conducted earlier this year, more than 75 percent of Americans don’t get as much sleep as they should, meaning more of us than ever before are spending our days tired, spaced out, and not nearly as productive as we could be due to lost hours that should have been spent slumbering in the sack....

The Apple TV is a capable little set-top streaming device with a lot of variety, but it’s not exactly frugal when it comes to your Internet connection. RELATED: Is It Finally a Good Time to Buy an Apple TV? If you have a slower connection, or you have a data cap, there are some ways you can reduce how much data your Apple TV uses on a regular basis. Of course, none of these steps replace being cognizant of how much you’re streaming, but many of them will keep you from accidentally going over your limit....

If you accidentally change a touchpad setting, if your touchpad is acting up, or if you want a fresh start without customizations, you can reset your touchpad settings to the default in Windows 10. Most laptops these days come with touchpads that do a lot more than click and scroll. They incorporate two, three, and even four-finger gestures to help navigate your Windows machine with ease. You can assign those gestures to features that open up Cortana, switch between active windows, and open your action center....

How to Restart Your Kindle There are a couple of different ways to restart your Kindle. If it’s working normally, the simplest way is to hold down the Power button (the one on the bottom of the device you use to unlock the screen) for about 10 seconds. When a dialog box pops up, tap “Restart,” and wait a few moments while it goes through the rebooting process. Alternatively, if your device is unresponsive, you can hold down the Power button until the screen flashes and the reboot process begins—about 40 seconds....

Plex Media Center has a handy (but often overlooked) feature that makes it dead simple to save a video you find on the web for later viewing from the comfort of your couch. Let’s look at how to easily send videos to your Watch Later queue. RELATED: How to Set Up Plex (and Watch Your Movies on Any Device) If you’re anything like we are, you come across tons of interesting video clips throughout your week–but not at convenient times to watch them....

Chromebooks and Chromeboxes are intended to be easy-to-use computers, but that simplicity can lead to confusion. Taking screenshots is one feature that isn’t super well explained, and there are several different ways to do it in Chrome OS. We’ll show you all of them. Chrome OS 89 introduced a screenshot and screen recorder tool for Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. Before this, you had to know specific keyboard shortcuts—which still work—to take a screenshot....

Got a shiny new Apple Watch for Christmas? You’re probably wondering how to set it up and what to do with it. It’s a very useful smartwatch that can do many things. Read on to find out how to set up your Apple Watch, tweak its settings, and learn the many ways you can use it. Set up Your Apple Watch The first thing you’ll want to do with your watch is update it to Watch OS 2....

Phones are private, full of personal data and messages. Guided Access allows you to share your iPhone with someone without being able to access that data–allowing them to look at photos, place a phone call, or play a game while your stuff stays hidden. Guided Access is ideal for situations where you want to show photos to friends or family, allow someone to place a phone call, or let a kid play a game....

By default, iOS shows notifications in the order you received them. That can be handy, of course, but if you get a lot of notifications, you may find it easier to group notifications by the app they come from. You can also sort notifications manually so that the apps you care about always show their notifications first on your list. Here’s how to do that in iOS. RELATED: How to Manage Notifications on iPhone and iPad...

To set up this Skill, you’ll need to go into the Alexa app on your phone and tap on the sidebar menu button in the top-left corner of the screen. Tap on “Skills”. In the search box at the top, type in “guitar”. Once it’s enabled and ready to go, you’ll see “Disable” instead of “Enable”. Alexa will then play each string four times and move onto the next string....

Google’s Messages app—which is the default SMS app on many Android devices—has “Categories” across the top to organize your text messages. Thankfully, this email-like feature can be turned off if it’s not your cup of tea. Since March 2022, Messages shows three “Categories” at the top of the inbox: “All,” “Personal,” and “Business.” You don’t have to do any manual sorting. Google automatically attempts to sort your messages into these categories....