The Auto-Complete feature in Outlook automatically fills in names and email addresses for you when entering them in the To or Cc fields. Based on the characters you start to enter, Outlook displays a list of possible choices that match what you’ve entered. You can then either click the desired email address from the list or press Enter to insert the email address in the list. The Auto-Complete feature can save you time if you compose a lot of emails and have a lot of contacts in your address book....

If you need to add some line spacing to your Word document or write an APA style piece, double spacing is a useful feature. You can quickly double space your documents with just a few clicks or a keyboard shortcut. What Is Double-Spacing? Virtually every college student eventually has to double space a document in Microsoft Word. It provides plenty of margins to make notes or suggestions in a document....

Are you verbose and protracted? Do you have a friend who’s just a bit too long-winded and rambling in their writings? Summarizing long documents on macOS is a concise way to get to the point with a minimum of time and effort. Not only does summarizing help you get the gist of an article without reading the whole thing, it will make it easier to find files as well. Or, if you have written something, you can use your summary to help prepare an abstract if you want to submit it for publishing....

Why the Red Dot? The red dot is Apple Watch’s equivalent of iPhone’s badge notifications. It works well when you get few notifications, but that isn’t the case for some people. If you get a lot of notifications, the red dot remains on the watch face pretty much all the time. If disabling Apple Watch notifications isn’t an option, you could consider hiding the red dot, which is what we’ll do below....

To use the Linux terminal like a pro, you’ll need to know the basics of managing files and navigating directories. True to the Unix philosophy, each command does one thing and does it well. Midnight Commander, a full-featured file manager for the Linux terminal, acts as a powerful front end to all these commands. RELATED: 10 Basic Linux Commands for Beginners ls – List Files The ls command lists the files in a directory....

As of October 2021, Windows 11 doesn’t let you move your taskbar to the top of the screen with an official setting (unlike Windows 10). But we’ve figured out a way to make it happen by editing the Registry—and you can do it with just a few clicks. Here’s how. RELATED: 5 Ways Windows 11’s Taskbar Is Worse Than Windows 10’s Edit the Registry Yourself To move your Windows 11 taskbar to the top of the screen, you can either change your Windows Registry manually or download our one-click hack in the section below....

If you have a lengthy presentation, keeping it organized is important. One way to do this in Microsoft PowerPoint is to use sections. We’ll show you what they are and how you can make use of them. You can group slides into various sections to keep things neat and tidy. Expand a section and collapse the rest so you can focus on what you’re working on. You can also easily move sections if you want to rearrange your presentation....

By default, when you print in Google Sheets, all data in the spreadsheet is used. Should you only want to print a specific set of cells, there’s a simple method to specify selected cells. Here’s how. Fire up the Google Sheets home page in a browser and open an existing spreadsheet you want to print some data from within. Next, highlight the cells you want to print. You can click and drag cells or hold the Shift key while you click on the range of cells....

Windows 10’s “This PC” view doesn’t just show hard drives, removable storage devices, and network locations. Unlike the traditional “My Computer” list, it also contains several folders — but you can hide them and make This PC look more like Windows 7’s Computer view. You can hide the Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos folders — all of them, or just some of them. This requires a quick little registry hack....

It’s a good idea to give each of the devices you use a meaningful name. This is especially important on Windows 10, as Microsoft has removed the computer name option from the first-time setup process. Windows 10 PCs will just receive random, meaningless names by default. On a network, this “hostname” identifies the device on your router’s status pages and when browsing shared files. Such names are also used in “find my device” interfaces and anywhere else the device needs to be identified....

If you’re like most Windows users, you have lots of great little utilities that run when you start Windows. While this works great for most apps, there are some that would be nice to start even before a user logs in to the PC. To do this, you’ll need to run the app as a Windows service. Windows services are a special class of programs that are configured to launch and run in the background, usually without any sort of user interface and without needing a user to log in to the PC....

If you’ve ever run out of the house with your iPhone, but left your wallet or purse behind, you know how annoying it is to turn around and go back to get it. If you use Apple Pay, you don’t have to. The problem then is, how do you know who accepts Apple Pay? If you’re just out to get a quick bite to eat or some groceries, you don’t want to go from place to place asking them if they accept Apple Pay, so there has to be a better way, and luckily there is....

It can be a little unnerving when your iPhone seems to know your routine, like it has ESP. This is often exhibited as notifications, such as when you get in your car and your phone gives you traffic conditions en route to your destination. RELATED: Google’s Location History is Still Recording Your Every Move For example, when you go to work every day, it will keep track of that. Thus, after a time, when you get in your car and head out in the morning, it lets you know how long it will take to get there....

Microsoft’s Xbox One allows you to easily capture a screenshot or record the last thirty seconds of gameplay as a video. You can also use the Game DVR app for more fine-grained recording options. All video clips are saved in 720p resolution at 30 frames per second. There’s one catch: you can’t copy your captured screenshots or videos directly to a USB drive. The best way to get them to your computer is to upload them to OneDrive....

Although the Intercom feature is primarily designed for use in the home, it also works with the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple Watch, and CarPlay. What Is Intercom? Intercom allows you to send prerecorded voice messages to Apple devices, much like the short voice clips Apple has built into its Messages app. The feature is primarily designed for use with the HomePod and HomePod mini smart speakers, allowing you to send a message to every speaker in your house simultaneously....

If you manage multiple Discord accounts, the platform’s desktop and web app allow you to add all your accounts into the app and then switch between them with ease. If this sounds like something you want to do, we’ll show you how. The way this works is that you add your secondary Discord account to the app. Then, when you want to switch between accounts, you use the app’s switch accounts option....

File History is Windows 10’s main backup tool, originally introduced in Windows 8. Despite the name, File History isn’t just a way to restore previous versions of files–it’s a fully-featured backup tool. After you set up File History, you can just connect an external drive to your computer and Windows will automatically back up your files to it. Leave it connected and Windows will back up automatically on a schedule....

How to Install Windows 11 Without a Microsoft Account Typically, you would use the Windows Media Creation tool to create a bootable DVD or USB drive, then install Windows 11 that way. Unfortunately, you’ll be stuck logging in with a Microsoft account if you do that. Windows 10 lets you use a local account if you disconnect from the internet. The latest version of Windows 11, however, will not — if you try the same trick, you’ll just get an error message....

How to Stream UFC 269 Live in the United States Play Video UFC 269’s main card will stream exclusively on ESPN+ in the United States. Current subscribers to ESPN+ ($6.99 per month or $69.99 per year) or the Disney Bundle (featuring Disney+, Hulu’s ad-supported tier, and ESPN+ for $13.99 per month) can order UFC 269 for an additional $69.99. New subscribers to ESPN+ can sign up for a year of the service plus the UFC 269 broadcast for $89....

Having a home packed with smart devices is great but managing them all in a smooth and unified fashion can be a nightmare: enter the home automation hub. Read on as we field test the Wink Hub and show you how to get your devices working together. What Is The Wink Hub? Wink is a smart home/home automation platform created through a partnership between Quirky and GE to manage and control smart home products made by the partnered companies....