Apple’s Pages is perfectly acceptable as a word processor on the Mac. But most people use Microsoft Office, and iWork isn’t even available for Windows. So if you have an iWork document, and you or someone else needs to open it in Microsoft Office, you’ll have to convert it first. There are two ways to do this: through iWork itself, or through iCloud. Let’s first discuss the iWork way for those users who own Macs–we’ll use Pages as an example, but this method should work for any iWork document: Pages, Numbers, or Keynote....

Microsoft makes Windows 10 ISO images available to everyone through its download website, but if you’re already using a Windows machine, it forces you to download the Media Creation Tool first. Here’s how to download Windows ISOs without the creation tool. RELATED: What Is An ISO File (And How Do I Use Them)? Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool is only for Windows. If you access the website from another operating system—like macOS or Linux—you’re sent to a page where you can directly download an ISO file instead....

Why Do I Want to Do This? The Kindle has a feature known as Kindle Collections. This feature allows you to group books together into unique collections like “Mystery Novels”, “Textbooks”, “To-Read” or whatever other sorting/tagging method you wish to apply to any given group of books. It has enormous potential to make arranging and managing the books on your Kindle really awesome, but the past and even current (slightly improved) implementation is pretty lackluster compared to the rest of the Kindle user experience....

If you’ve been using Outlook for any significant amount of time, you probably have a few rules set up to help you manage your tidal wave of email. If you have a new computer, or you’re reinstalling Windows, you don’t need to set them all up again–just export them. A Rule in Outlook is a series of steps you set up automatically take specific actions on email messages as they are received....

If you log in to Windows with a Microsoft account, the Windows 10 sign in screen shows the name and email address for the last user that signed in. It’s convenient, but if you use your computer in public or leave it unattended, you might not want people being able to see that personal information. Here’s how to hide it. The lock screen itself does not show your sign in information, but with just a click or tap, anyone can reveal the sign in screen that does....

If you have a large spreadsheet in Excel, you may want to add page numbers. Doing so is easy, and you can even add them in the format of “Page X of Y”. Read on to find out how. To begin, click the “Insert” tab. In the “Text” section, click “Header & Footer”. The “Design” tab under “Header & Footer Tools” displays. In the “Header & Footer Elements” section, click the “Page Number” button....

If you work on several different documents at a time, Word makes it easy to open multiple documents in different windows at once. It’s as easy as selecting multiple files like you do in Windows Explorer. When you first open Word, the “Recent” list displays on the backstage screen. At the bottom of the “Recent” list, click the “Open Other Documents” link. NOTE: If you already have a new or existing document open and want to open additional documents, click the “File” tab and then click “Open” on the backstage screen....

Sometimes you want to print only a specific selection of cells on a worksheet. But when you print in Microsoft Excel, all data on a worksheet is printed by default. This article will show two ways to print a selected range. Printing a Specific Selection of Cells in Microsoft Excel This first option is the quickest method to print a selected range of cells. Select and highlight the range of cells you want to print....

While many of us have strived to move into an all digital world, printing is still a necessary evil for most people. If you’re a Chromebook user, printing can be a bit of a pain, but thanks to some recent changes by Google, it just got a little bit more convenient. RELATED: Seven Useful Chromebook Tricks You Should Know About Traditionally, Chromebooks have relied exclusively on Google Cloud Print for all printing needs....

Are you finding that you’re not seeing new apps on the App Store, or that updates to apps won’t go away even after you’ve installed the updates? Here’s a simple fix. Even though the App Store isn’t a web page, it caches data so it loads faster, just like a web page. Clearing the cache in the App Store can help you make sure you have the latest, most up-to-date apps and updates in the App Store....

RELATED: QR Codes Explained: Why You See Those Square Barcodes Everywhere Scan a Snapcode Using Your Phone’s Camera If your Snapcode is on another device or screen, use Snapchat’s camera view to scan that code in the app. To start, launch the Snapchat app on your phone. If you do not already see the camera view, at the bottom of the app, tap the camera icon. Point your phone’s camera to the Snapcode you want to scan....

If you have an Apple TV, then you probably know by now that while setting it up is pretty easy, but using the supplied remote with it, is not. Why not set up your Apple TV then using your iPad, iPhone, or a Bluetooth keyboard? It’s no secret that we’re not fans of the Apple TV’s remote. We probably shouldn’t be so hard on it because, after all, it’s really meant for interacting with media but, to get to that media, you often have to set up or log into your accounts....

You know how to take screenshots on a Mac, but not how to take screenshots of the second display on your new MacBook Pro: the Touch Bar. What if you want to share how you’ve customized the Touch Bar, or the dumb Touch Bar apps you’ve found? RELATED: How to Screenshot on a Mac It turns out the keyboard shortcut for taking a screenshot of the Touch Bar is related to the other keyboard shortcuts for taking a screenshot: Command+Shift+6....

If you want a wide angle photo of some sweeping vista, you used to only have two options: buy an expensive camera with a wide angle lens, or take a series of photos and stitch them together with software. But these days, the iPhone’s camera makes panoramic photos a cinch. Panoramic photos can capture a much wider view than a simple wide angle lens, and it’s usually much easier to get good results than it is stitching multiple photos together....

The paperless office isn’t yet here for many of us, and printers are still a fact of life. If your printer isn’t working quite right on a Windows PC, here are some simple troubleshooting tips that can fix it. Obviously, the first steps are the most obvious. Verify your printer is plugged in, powered on, and connected to your computer (or the Wi-Fi network, if it’s a Wi-Fi printer). These may seem obvious, but sometimes we forget to check the simple things before checking the more complex ones....

It seems like everyone is tracking our location now. Not surprisingly, Facebook Messenger can also transmit a significant amount of information on your location activity. If you use Messenger, here’s how to make sure it’s not reporting your location to others. We know Google does it, and if you use an Apple device, you have to enable location tracking for certain features and apps to work correctly. Basically, any portable device or modern operating system has location-oriented features baked into it....

When you upload a new version of a shared file to Google Drive, the old file is not replaced, since Google Drive lets you have multiple files with the same name. That means that the newly uploaded file will have a different shareable link, which is a hassle if you want the same people to be able to access it. However, there is an easy way to keep the same link for the shared file....

Microsoft PowerPoint has a neat little tool that allows you to copy and paste the formatting of a text string or object. Here’s how you can copy the formatting rules from one object and paste it in the next. Open your PowerPoint presentation, navigate to the slide that contains the text or object with the formatting you want to copy, and then select it. For our example, we select our “How-To Geek” title text....

Have you ever been composing a new message in iOS Mail when you needed to refer back to an earlier email? Instead of saving the new message as a draft, just swipe it out of the way. If you’re composing a new message and need to take a look through your older messages, just drag the title bar of the new message down toward the bottom of the screen to move it out of the way....

Emoji are fun to use, but if you’re like most people, you tend to use a few of them a lot more often than others. Instead of switching to the Emoji keyboard every time, why not set up a text replacement shortcut so that you can just type the Emoji you want to use? RELATED: 12 Tricks for Typing Faster on Your iPhone or iPad’s Keyboard There are a number of ways to type faster on your iOS keyboard, and text replacement is one of the best....