Let’s say you’re using an image in a PowerPoint presentation that you’d like to assign a description, caption, or artist credit. You’d also like to make sure that text follows the image should you move it later. By using PowerPoint’s grouping feature, you can easily anchor images to text. Using PowerPoint’s Grouping Feature When you use PowerPoint’s grouping feature, you’re essentially taking several individual objects, whether they be images, SmartArt, text, and so on, and turning them into one single object....

If you’re a Mozilla Firefox user, you can take a screenshot of a web page or a selected region directly within your browser on Windows, Linux, and Mac using a built-in tool—no plug-ins necessary. Here’s how to use it. How to Access the Firefox Screenshots Tool Aptly named, Mozilla’s built-in tool is called “Firefox Screenshots.” And accessing this tool is remarkably easy. First, open Firefox and navigate to the website you want to capture as a screenshot....

You know what’s not cool? Having that default block letter as a contact picture for your favorite contacts in your phone. They’re your favorites! Your besties, your husband or wife, even your kids. C’mon guys, they deserve better than the first letter of their first name. It’s up to you to make this right. But don’t fret—we’re here to help. It’s kinda what we do. Before we get started, it’s worth pointing out that this process may vary slightly between manufacturers....

Adobe Photoshop has a customizable interface that you can change to suit your preferred working style or screen size. If you want to quickly change Adobe Photoshop’s interface layout, you can do so by switching to another screen mode. Screen modes are preset interface styles for Photoshop that can increase or decrease how much of the photo editing software’s interface is displayed. For instance, if you want to work faster in Photoshop without any of the panels or toolbars on display, you can quickly switch to another screen mode....

The Apple Watch includes the ability to change its orientation to accommodate right-handed as well as left-handed wearers. Here is how to change the orientation on your Apple Watch. Traditional wristwatches are ambidextrous. Whether you want to wear one on your left wrist or right wrist, it will still be as accessible and usable, no matter what. With something like a smartwatch, you may not have such an option. Luckily the Apple Watch includes the ability to accommodate anybody, be they left or right-handed....

If you signed up for TikTok in haste, you might be regretting your choice of username. Rather than sticking it out with something embarrassing, it’s a quick and easy process to change your TikTok username. While you can sign in to TikTok from your web browser, it’s only possible to change certain settings (including your username) using the TikTok app on Android, iPhone, and iPad. To start, open the TikTok app on your smartphone or tablet and sign in to your account....

Want to be able to work on your spreadsheets on the web? If so, convert all your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to Google Sheets. After you complete this simple process, other people can edit your spreadsheets and you can use Sheets-exclusive functions. Here’s how. What to Know When Converting Your Spreadsheets Since Excel and Google Sheets are two different spreadsheet processors, their functionality varies. Here are some things to note before conversion:...

Every document in Word must have a template attached. If you’re using a custom template with the current document and you’ve forgotten which one it is, you can easily find out in Word. You can also easily change which template is attached to the current document. NOTE: We used Word 2013 to illustrate this feature. To determine or change which template is attached to the current document, you need to use the “Developer” tab....

Apple’s Mac OS X and iOS send your Spotlight searches over the Internet to Apple. You then see results from Bing and suggested websites, locations, and media content. You can disable this and keep your searches entirely local, whether you’re using Spotlight on a Mac or iOS device. If you have Location Services enabled on your Mac or iOS device, your current location will also be sent to Apple when you search via Spotlight....

Fields in Word are bits of code that are placeholders for data that changes. For example, when you insert page numbers into the header or footer of a document, Word actually creates a field that inserts the correct page number on each page. There are a lot of built-in fields available in Word, such as the current date, the date a document was last saved, the file name, and the number of words in a document....

Whether you’re looking to make a backup of your bookmarks, or you want to import your bookmarks in another web browser, you will want to export your Mozilla Firefox bookmarks first. We’ll show you how to do just that. Firefox has a built-in option to help you export your bookmarks. It creates an HTML file containing all your bookmarks, and you can then import this file back into Firefox or another compatible browser....

If you signed up for the OS X beta program at some point to test the latest release before it was publicly available, you might be wondering how to get out of installing every single beta update. Or not. Either way, here’s how to get out of it easily. Getting Out of the Beta Program Open up System Preferences and choose App Store. Then on the section that says “Your computer is set to receive pre-release Software Update seeds”, click the Change button....

With iOS 9 and the launch of the new iPhone 6 model just weeks away, now has never been a better time to make sure that all the data stored on your iPhone is backed up and secure. In preparation for the big launch, we’ve written a guide on how you can get any important contacts, notes, texts, or music copied from your mobile device to a local hard drive or linked iCloud account....

If you’re dual-booting Linux alongside Windows 10, 8, or 8.1 and you want to mount your Windows system partition and access its files, you’ll run into a problem. You’ll see an error saying “The NTFS partition is hibernated” due to the new hybrid boot feature, preventing you from accessing its files. This message can be confusing if you’re not expecting it. Just shut down your Windows system normally and Linux will claim it’s currently hibernated, but you didn’t hibernate it....

How to Zip Files on iPhone and iPad The Files app got a huge upgrade with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, finally supporting external storage on the iPhone and iPad. But one of the little things was the native support for Zip files. You’ll no longer need to download third-party apps and shuffle between different apps just to open a Zip file. To compress files, you’ll first need to add them to the Files app....

What Is the Write Protect Error and What Causes It? The write-protection error appears when you try to copy or modify the contents of a storage device that is write-protected. This error is caused by a number of reasons. It may be intentional, as the owner might have enabled the read-only feature of the device to secure its contents. It may also be caused by viruses or encryption tools. Whatever the reason is, don’t immediately resort to formatting your storage devices....

“Household Contacts” are the people everyone in your home knows. These might be parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, common friends, and so on. If someone is added to the “Household Contacts” list, anyone in the home can then call that person from a Google Assistant-enabled device. For example, your spouse might call your brother Bob, even if she doesn’t have his number saved in her personal contacts. She can just say, “OK Google, call Bob....

You’re working on your laptop and you realize that it’s time to go. So, you shut down your laptop, but Windows insists on updating. Ten minutes later, you’re still waiting for Windows to update and you’re going to be late. There is a way around this: a way to can shut down immediately even when there are updates waiting to install. There are a few methods to doing this, and both are quite simple....

A numbered list in Word is simply a series of numbered paragraphs. There may be times when you want to have a paragraph or two without numbering in the middle of a numbered list and then start the numbering again after the unnumbered paragraphs. Removing numbers from items in a numbered list is easy. To do this, format your numbered list using the “Numbering” button in the “Paragraph” section of the “Home” tab or using the keyboard shortcut you set up for creating numbered lists....

Everyone wants to replace the password with something better. Well, we already have smartphones — and some of us even have smartwatches. These tools can log you into your computer with a smartphone or smartwatch. The best, most polished options are available for Mac users with iPhones. Solutions available for Windows and other platforms are much more limited. Mac and iPhone or Apple Watch Mac users with iPhones have the most — and most polished — options available:...