When dealing with currency in Windows and Windows programs, such as Excel, Windows uses its default currency symbol. If you want to use a different symbol (say, Euros instead of Dollars), it’s easy to change using a setting in Window’s Control Panel. The procedure for changing this setting is similar in Windows 7, 8, and 10, with slight differences in how you access the Control Panel setting. We’ll show you how to access this setting in each version of Windows and then where to change this setting, as well as other currency format settings....

Dangerous root certificates are a serious problem. From Lenovo’s Superfish to Dell’s eDellRoot and a number of other certificates installed by adware programs, your computer’s manufacturer or a program you installed may have added a certificate that opens you to attack. Here’s how to check if your certificates are clean. In the past, this hasn’t been an easy process. However, a new Microsoft tool can quickly scan your system and inform you if any certificates are installed that aren’t normally trusted by Microsoft....

There are various reasons why you might want to convert a PDF file to editable text. Maybe you need to revise an old document and all you have is the PDF version of it. Converting PDF files in Windows is easy, but what if you’re using Linux? No worries. We’ll show you how to easily convert PDF files to editable text using a command line tool called pdftotext, that is part of the “poppler-utils” package....

It’s easy to copy and paste various items, including text, web links, photos, and messages, on your iPhone. We’ll show you how to copy and paste these items between various apps on your Apple smartphone. RELATED: How to Copy and Paste on Mac Copy and Paste Text on iPhone Copying and pasting regular text is the easiest thing to do on your iPhone. You basically select the text to copy and choose the copy option....

You’re working on a document and discover that you need to send part of it in an email to a colleague. Rather than manually creating a new email in Outlook before you can paste the text, you can simply paste it while in Outlook. How does Outlook know what type of item to create? Whichever section you’re in (Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks), that’s the type of item Outlook will create using the text you copied....

The status bar in Windows’ Notepad displays the current line number and column number of the cursor location. However, if you find that the Status Bar option on the View menu is grayed out, it may be because you have Word Wrap enabled. If you’ve enabled word wrap, which keeps your columns restricted to the Notepad window, you cannot also enable the status bar. That is because word wrap screws up line breaks, making the line number and column number on the status bar not accurate all the time....

When you bought your phone it was cutting edge, had the latest version of Android, and made your heart sing. A year or two later, it doesn’t get new updates, and the performance is a little sluggish. You can breathe new life into your phone–not to mention add a ton of useful features–by flashing it with a new custom ROM. Why Would I Want to Do This? There are many reasons someone might wish to install (or “flash”) a new ROM to their phone....

Ever since its inception, Reddit has been a steaming cauldron of controversy, rife with scandals like Gamergate, Ellen Pao-gate, and the misidentification of the Boston Bombing suspects back in 2014. But, even though it might not be everyone’s cup of tea, for those who do enjoy scrolling through their favorite subs, the Reddit Enhancement Suite is a must have add-on that creates a whole new experience for the daily redditor....

The recent release of Office 2016 adds some useful new features and improvements and is now the default version installed as part of Office 365. However, if you want to install Office 2013 instead or on another machine, that is easily done. Sign in to your Office 365 account by visiting https://www.office.com and clicking “Sign in” in the upper-right corner of the webpage. You may see the page pictured below....

Increasingly sophisticated phones and data-hungry applications make it easier than ever to blow through your cellphone plan’s data cap…and incur nasty overage charges. Read on as we show you how to manage your data use. Just a few short years ago it would have been almost unheard of to blow through multiple GB of mobile data. Now apps have ballooned in size (it’s not uncommon for apps and their updates to exceed 100MB in size), and with streaming music and video becoming more popular, it’s easy to burn through your data cap in a matter of days....

Docker Volumes provide persistent storage to your containers. Data stored in volumes is stored independently of containers so it can be restored after restarts and replacements. Volumes support use with multiple containers simultaneously, facilitating data sharing situations. Mounting a Docker volume makes its contents available at a specific directory path inside the target container. Everything within the volume’s filesystem tree becomes accessible. This can create a challenge if you want to exclude specific subdirectories in the volume data....

When you access Chrome’s settings, they are opened in a new tab. If you tend to have a lot of tabs open and don’t want the settings to open on yet another tab, you can have the settings open in a new window instead. We’ll show you how. To open the Chrome settings in a new window, we’re going to use a setting on the Chrome flags page. Enter the following text in Chrome’s address bar and press Enter....

Next to entering text, graphics, and other content in Word, selecting content is probably the most common task you’ll perform. Just about every task begins by selecting something, whether it be text, an image, a table, etc. We’ll show you several methods for selecting content in Word. Using the Keyboard If you prefer using the keyboard over the mouse, you can quickly and easily select content using the “Shift” key with other keys to select different blocks of content....

Think a page belongs somewhere else in your document? If so, Microsoft Word offers a couple of ways to change the location of your pages. You can rearrange your pages using either the Navigation Pane or cut and paste. We’ll show you both ways. RELATED: How to Delete a Page in Microsoft Word Ways to Change the Page Order in Word One way to change your page order is to utilize the Navigation Pane....

OS X’s Preview is the little image viewer that keeps on giving. Preview is so feature-rich that there’s usually little reason to install another image viewer. It can even resize a large batch of images at once. Resizing in batches makes short work of what would normally be a tedious and time-consuming process, assuming you’re resizing all your images to the same dimensions. To perform a batch resize, you can either open Preview from the Dock and File > Open your images…...

How to Restore System Icons There are a few ways to get to the “Desktop Icon Settings” window, which where you control what system icons appear on your desktop. The easiest way to get there is through the Start menu. Click the Start button, type “Desktop Icon Settings” into the search bar, then hit Enter, click “Open,” or click “Themes and Related Settings.” If you want, you can also navigate to the Themes window by navigating through the Settings app....

Word allows you to open multiple documents at once as well as view multiple documents at once. What if you make changes to all the open documents and then want to quickly save and close all of them? Easy to do and we’ll show you how. In earlier versions of Word (before 2007), holding down the “Shift” key as you click the “File” menu would change the “Save” command to “Save All” and the “Close” command to “Close All”....

You can use section breaks in Word to apply different layout or formatting for part of your document, page numbers or page number style, headers or footers, etc. If you need to select all the content in a section, there is no shortcut to do this. However, we do have a workaround you can use to select all the content in a single section. Place the cursor at the beginning of the section you want to select and press “F8” to turn on Extend Mode....

You’ve always been able to send static images to other people through iMessage, but you might not have known that you can also send animated GIFs as well. RELATED: The Easiest Ways to Create Animated GIFs on Any Platform There are a few ways you can do this. The easiest way is to use the built-in “#images” iMessage app, which lets you search through all sorts of GIFs and send them quickly and easily....

There is a curious phenomenon many of you have likely come across: even with a fast computer, there are some folders Windows loads with agonizing slowness. Fortunately the fix is simple and the results are immediate. Why Your Folders Load So Slowly There is a long standing Windows Explorer feature that dates all the way back to Windows Vista wherein you can tell Windows Explorer what kind of content is in specific folders, in order to optimize how that content is displayed....