Viewing only the data you want to see can be tedious when you’re working with a large spreadsheet. Luckily, Excel offers various tools you can use to simplify your data. For example, you can easily group rows in Excel and then collapse or expand your data as needed. How to Group Rows in Excel To group by rows in Excel, start by selecting the adjacent rows you want to use....

Microsoft Edge doesn’t yet have browser extensions, but it can use bookmarklets. Bookmarklets work just fine in Edge, and they make up for the lack of browser extensions. You’ll just have to install them manually first. Update: This no longer works as of the Windows 10 November Update, but you can use this third party tool to add bookmarklets to Edge’s bookmark database. Bookmarklets are small bits of JavaScript code stored in a bookmark, or favorite....

Those defaults are due partly to Google needing access to such data to personalize a lot of the content you see, making for a better experience overall. This data is also used to serve tailored ads you’re more likely to click. However, if you aren’t interested in any of that, here’s what you can do to reduce your exposure. Restrict App Permissions Passwords and fingerprint IDs are common ways of protecting your Android phone from people who come in contact with your device....

The Mac’s calendar app is a powerful way to schedule events and appointments, and best of all, it’s included with OS X. One of the nicest things about Calendar is that you can easily change the way it looks to zoom in or out on a specific set of events. It’s important to be able to change your calendar’s view mode. Sometimes you need to look at what’s happening on a certain day or maybe plan things out a year or two from now....

Digital photos are great, but sometimes you just want a printed photo you can hang somewhere or just hold in your hand. Print photos straight from your iPhone’s camera roll, whether you have your own photo printer or not. You can do this at home with a printer, have a service print them out and mail them to you, or print them at a local business that offers photo-printing services....

Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption always forces you to create a recovery key when you set it up. You may have printed that recovery key, written it down, saved it to a file, or stored it online with a Microsoft account. If your BitLocker drive isn’t unlocking normally, the recovery key is your only option. There are many reasons you may get locked out of your hard drive–maybe your computer’s TPM is no longer unlocking your drive automatically, or you forget a password or PIN....

If you’ve installed a lot of apps on your Apple Watch, the Home screen might be getting a bit crowded. Wondering how you can remove rarely used apps from your watch? There are two ways to do it. One way to remove apps is directly on your watch’s Home screen. Tap the digital crown to access the Home screen and drag your finger around the screen until you find the icon for the app you want to remove....

Live Photos are a nifty innovation Apple recently introduced in iOS 9, allowing users to basically shoot short videos that appear as photos. Sadly, the only way to share them easily is with other iPhone users. Here is how to share them with everyone. We really like Live Photos and think they’re a great way to capture memories beyond the same old still photo format. That said, if you don’t own an iPhone or iPad running iOS 9, then you won’t be able to share in the fun....

If you want to write blog posts, you need a blog to hold those posts. Google’s Blogger is a free, simple blogging platform that’s packed with useful tools. Here’s how to get started. If you’ve ever gone to a website that had “blogspot” in the URL, you’ve been to a blog that uses Google Blogger. It’s a very popular blogging platform because it’s free—you just need a free Google account, which you’ve already got if you have a Gmail address—and you don’t need to know any technical wizardry to set it up or publish your blog posts....

There’s an annoying thing that happens if you use Google Photos on non-Pixel phones. You have to give the app permission to delete photos every single time you do it. Thankfully, you can put a stop to this. Why Does This Happen? Android 11 introduced a major revamp to how apps can access your device’s storage. Previously, the storage permission gave apps access to basically all of your files. The new feature—called “Scoped Storage”—divides up what apps can access....

Windows 10 doesn’t just automatically collect information about your computer usage. It does do that, but it may also pop up from time to time and ask for feedback. Here’s how to disable any Windows Feedback pop-up notifications you may see. This information is used to improve Windows 10 — in theory. As of Windows 10’s “November Update,” the Windows Feedback application is installed by default on all Windows 10 PCs....

Google’s Chromecast is an excellent little streaming device that offers an easy and affordable way to get content from the little screen to the big one. The thing is, when you’re not using it, it can use over 15GB of data every month just idling. That’s a pretty significant amount for anyone on a metered connection. Why Does This Happen? “Why?” is naturally the first question most people have when it comes to all this data usage....

Calling people with Siri is a great little shortcut, but it isn’t always natural to say “Call Jane Smith” instead of “Call Mom”. Luckily, you can teach Siri who people are–your parents, your doctor, or anyone else–for even more convenient voice calling. RELATED: 26 Actually Useful Things You Can Do with Siri This is particularly great for people like “My doctor” or “My plumber” whose names you may not remember offhand....

Autocorrect never ceases to humor us. Entire websites have been built upon so-called autocorrect fails. Funny as they are, for those of us who tend to be really good spellers, it’s aggravating when the computer thinks it knows better. Autocorrect and its direct descendent spellcheck are woven into the very framework of OS X. Typically any application that allows text entry will have spelling and/or substitution options on the Edit menu....

We have looked at some of the various ways in which remote access of your computer can be achieved, including using TeamViewer and VNC, but if you have Chrome installed you can do the same with nothing more than a browser extension. It does not matter whether you’re using Windows or OS X (sadly, Linux users are left out in the cold), all you need is the Chrome Remote Desktop extension....

Notepad has been the standard text editor included in Windows for many years, allowing you to create and edit plain text files. But, did you know you can also use Notepad to keep a dated log or journal? It’s very easy and we’ll show you how. Open Notepad and type .LOG in all caps on the first line of the new text file. Select “Save As” from the “File” menu....

OS X uses touch gestures throughout to better facilitate navigation and allow users to expedite normally tedious tasks in a quick and convenient fashion. Today, we want to show you a few cool tricks to use gestures in the Finder’s preview pane. The Finder has all kinds of cool trick up its sleeve. For example, you can customize its folder views allowing you to change the size of icons and arrangements, or you can tweak the sidebar so it conforms to your liking....

Chromebooks include only a small amount of internal storage. However, they support external storage devices like USB flash drives, external hard drives, and microSD cards. Use an external storage device to expand your Chromebook’s storage or transfer files between Chromebooks and other computers, including Windows PCs and Macs. Google includes support for a variety of file systems, and whatever you connect should just work–mostly. You can even connect an external disc drive via USB to access files stored on DVDs and CDs....

Today we want to discuss a productivity trick on OS X that has been around for quite some time, but may have slipped your notice: the ability to assign various applications to load on specific desktops in OS X. Why would you want to do this? Quite simply, this helps to dramatically declutter your workflow. Over the course of the average workday, you may open a dozen or so windows and applications....

If you do a lot of work in the Terminal, or any dark program, you might crank up the brightness to see things more clearly. The problem: when you switch to a mostly-white window, your screen is blindingly bright. Lumen is a free Mac application that solves this problem. It learns your preferred brightness levels for dark and light windows, then automatically adjusts the brightness level when you switch between them....