When you launch an Office program, a start screen displays showing available templates and a list of documents recently opened in the left column. This screen can be helpful, but if you find it annoying or distracting, you can easily disable it. We previously showed you how to disable the Office 2013 start screen by making a change to the registry. Now, you can do this using a setting available in the Office programs....

Microsoft Word’s AutoCorrect feature has built-in capitalization settings aimed at automatically fixing common mistakes like typing two capital letters at the beginning of a word or not capitalizing the names of days. Sometimes, though, these helpful corrections can get in the way. Here’s how to change them. Click “File” tab on the main Word ribbon. On the File sidebar, click the “Options” command. In the Word Options window, select the “Proofing” category on the left....

There’s a very curious short coming in the Apple HomeKit system: HomeKit supports combining your smarthome devices into rooms, zones, and scenes, but if a given app doesn’t support one of those things, you’re out of luck. And no smarthome apps let you create scenes with multiple products from different companies. Enter the Home app, which solves both these problems. RELATED: What Is Apple HomeKit? These distinctions–rooms, zones, and scenes–are incredibly useful for controlling your devices by room or by use case:...

So you’ve got a fancy new Logitech Harmony remote, ready to control your entire home theater–but one of your devices is a home theater PC. Don’t worry: Your Harmony can control your PC too, it just isn’t immediately obvious how. Depending on the remote you have, you have a few options when it comes to controlling your media PC. You can use: Infrared: All Harmony remotes support this option, and it’s the most versatile with the least amount of fiddling....

Brochures are a handy marketing tool used by nearly every company in existence. Creating them takes only a few minutes, and you can do it directly in Word using a template or from scratch. Here’s how. Create a Brochure Using Templates The easiest way to create a brochure is by using one of the many available templates that Word has to offer. RELATED: How to Make Vertical Tear-Off Pages in Microsoft Word...

In Google Docs, you can create and customize multilevel lists in your document with ease. You can format your lists with bullets, numbers, or even alphabetized them. Let’s take a look at the process. How to Create a Multilevel List Fire up a browser, head to your Google Docs homepage, and open a new document. It’s effortless to create a multilevel list in Google Docs. All you have to do is type on a line to begin your list, press Enter after the first item to start a new line, type the next item on your list, and so on....

If This Then That is a series of programs and quick hacks that help your mobile devices better understand not just simple commands one at a time, but broad strokes of linear patterns that can be programmed in depending on how you use a particular piece of technology in the real world. Previously, we discussed some of the better recipes that have already been created and distributed as a part of the IFTTT community hub....

If you use a Windows or Linux PC as your primary computer, but have an iPad or iPhone as one of your devices, you can’t simply transfer photos over to it by plugging it in. Instead, it is best to use iCloud to accomplish this. As we’ve discussed before, you can easily copy photos off an iOS device to Windows with little hassle. The process takes very little time and no extra software is needed....

Every Android device has a unique International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number. You might need this number when dealing with your carrier or device manufacturer. There are a couple of ways to find this—here are both. What is An IMEI? IMEI stands for International Mobile Equipment Identity. In other words, it’s a unique identifier for your exact phone. Every mobile phone out there today has one, and every single one is unique....

You put your iPhone down somewhere, but you can’t remember where. You know it can’t be far; you just had it a little while ago. Finding your missing iPhone is quick and easy using your Apple Watch. To find your iPhone, you’ll use the “Settings” glance. If the clock face is not currently displaying, press the digital crown until it is. Then, swipe up from the bottom of the watch face to access the Glances....

You can easily count paragraphs, as well as pages, words, characters, and lines, in a Word document. However, what if you want to know how many paragraphs of a specific style you have in your document? We’ll show you a trick that allows you to easily get this number. RELATED: How to Count Pages, Words, Characters, Paragraphs, and Lines in a Word Document For example, maybe you want to know how many warnings you have in your document and you’ve applied a custom style to all the warnings in your document....

The Anniversary Update for Windows 10 adds badge icons for universal apps pinned to the Taskbar. While you can’t turn icon badges on and off for individual apps, you can disable all badges if you want. RELATED: What’s New in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update Fire up Windows Settings by clicking Start and then clicking the Settings button (or by pressing Windows+I on your keyboard). On the main settings screen, click “Personalization....

Browser extensions on Microsoft Edge can be useful, but the ones that work quietly need not appear on the browser’s toolbar all the time. Here’s how to hide or show extensions on Microsoft Edge’s toolbar. Microsoft Edge 92 changed how you manage the extensions, which can be mildly frustrating. After the update, you can completely hide the extension icons or reveal a few on the toolbar. Here’s how you can hide or show the extensions on the Microsoft Edge toolbar....

Your iPhone allows you to call up to five people at once, making it easy to set up a quick conference call. The other people don’t need anything special–just any old cellular or landline telephone. How to Add Participants to a Conference Call Start your conference call by calling one of the participants normally from the Dialer app. You may want to tell the person that you’re going to add more people to the call....

If you have certain webpages that you visit every time you open your browser, you can save time by having them automatically open when you start your browser. We’ll show you how to set this up in the five most popular browsers. For example, we want visit to How-To Geek and Google’s advanced search page every time we open our browser, so we’re going to set up each browser to open these two websites automatically....

Apple’s Time Machine typically backs up to an external drive or wirelessly to a Time Capsule. But, if you have a spare Mac, you can turn it into a Time Machine server. All your other Macs can back up to it over the network, just as if it were a Time Capsule. This requires Apple’s OS X Server software. Unlike Microsoft’s Windows Server, OS X Server is a $20 application you can install on any Mac....

If you’re away from home and your HVAC system breaks down suddenly, you probably want to get it fixed as soon as possible. Here’s how to receive instant alerts from your Ecobee thermostat whenever there’s a possible problem with your heating and cooling. RELATED: How to Install and Set Up the Ecobee Smart Thermostat You can receive similar notifications from the Nest, but it can’t do it natively, so you have to get some help from IFTTT and create a couple of recipes to get it going....

Whether you need to replace your optical drive or swap it out with a solid-state drive, here’s how to remove the DVD drive from an older iMac. RELATED: How to Install an SSD in an Older 2007-2009 iMac After the optical drive died in my 2008 iMac, I decided to just simply remove it altogether and have just an empty drive bay sitting there for now, hoping for better airflow....

“Factory settings” means the watch will go back to how it was when you took it out of the box. All of your personal data and settings will be erased. Since it’s only a watch, that may not matter as much as a phone, but it’s something to keep in mind. RELATED: How to Wipe Your Android Device and Restore It to Factory Settings First, swipe down from the top of the watch screen to see the quick settings....

Kubectl doesn’t have a direct way of restarting individual Pods. Pods are meant to stay running until they’re replaced as part of your deployment routine. This is usually when you release a new version of your container image. Here are a few techniques you can use when you want to restart Pods without building a new image or running your CI pipeline. They can help when you think a fresh set of containers will get your workload running again....