Customize Microsoft Office Color Theme on Mac Step 1. Open an Office 2016 for the Mac. In my example, I’ll use Word. Click Word > Preferences Step 2. Click General Step 3. Under Personalize, click the Office theme dropdown. Choose between Colorful or Classic. As I mentioned earlier, the options are very minimal when it comes to changing the Color Theme. It’s basically White or Blue. Being that the new Mac Office Suite was just released....
Disable Transparency and Animation Effects on Windows 11 To get started, click Start and then click on the Settings icon. Note: You can also use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + I to open the Settings app directly. Either way, you get there; once Settings is open, click on Accessibility from the list in the left panel. From the Accessibility options, click on Visual effects: Scroll bars, transparency, animations, notification timeout....
You might have a college paper where another paper you’ve written can provide insight or a business report where a financial PDF would help. Maybe you have an article where a media file would be ideal. Whatever you’re creating, we’ll show you how to embed a file into a Word document using the steps below. How to Embed a File in Microsoft Word You can embed almost any file type into a Word document and display it as an icon or link....
In the past, we’ve reviewed setting up and configuring Night Shift on iOS and Night Light on Windows 10, and today we’re going to review how to enable blue light for macOS and Linux. How to Enable Night Shift on macOS In order to run Night Shift, your Mac needs to be running at least macOS 10.12.4 as well as supported hardware. Here’s the list of supported Macs: MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or later)MacBook (Early 2015 or later)MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or later)Mac mini (Late 2012 or later)iMac (Late 2012 or later)Mac Pro (Late 2013)...
Macros come with risks—it’s possible for people to create malicious macros that can infect your computer with malware when you open them. That’s why macros are disabled by default in Excel. Turning them back on is simple enough to do, however. Here’s how to enable or disable macros in Excel. What Are Macros? A macro is a set of instructions that tells Excel to perform an action or sequence of actions....
We’ve shown you how to create a bootable USB drive with Rufus, but another easy method is to use the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft. The Media Creation Tool allows you to perform an in-place upgrade where you keep all of your files and settings. It also lets you boot from the drive and do a clean installation. Here’s how to create a bootable Windows 11 USB drive and install Windows 11....
How? Simple: dial in with Google Voice or Gmail using the Voice and Video Chat Call Phones feature. Earlier this year, Google rolled out a feature that lets you call phones from your Gmail chat window and use your computer’s microphone and speakers to place a VoIP call. For now, the Google Call Phones feature is free for domestic calls. For international calls, it’s still much cheaper than you’ll pay anywhere else—including Skype....
The concept behind PDF/A is simple, but the instructions various vendors provide are awfully convoluted. Here’s the easy way to do it. For my example, I’m using Adobe Pro 9.3, but this works on Adobe Standard 7 and up. The higher the version, the better. First, open the PDF you want to convert to PDF/A. On the surface, an ordinary PDF and a PDF/A will look the same. The differences are under the hood....
One chart type in Excel that many don’t consider is a scatter plot, also referred to as a scatter graph, scatter diagram, and scatter chart. This type of visual lets you compare two data sets using plotted points. Microsoft Excel provides a handful of scatter plot types depending on how you want to display your data. Let’s have a look at each one and how to create the scatter chart in Excel....
Google Docs is free, simple to use, and has plenty of templates that can help you create professional business cards at no cost. You don’t need to use complex image editors to do it, either. If you want to create a business card using Google Docs, follow the steps below. How to Create Business Cards in Google Docs You can make a business card using the Google Drawing tool—this is freely available for all Google Docs users....
Not sure if an app is running with as admin or not? No worries. The program you’re running will tell you. For example, in the shots below, the Command Prompt in the foreground is running with elevated privileges. It shows “Administrator” in the title bar, and the prompt is set to C:\WINDOWS\system32. The prompt in the background is not running as admin. To run an app as admin, you need to right-click the app on the desktop or from the Start menu and choose “Run as administrator” from the menu....
Microsoft is continuously adding new features to its Edge browser. In fact, we showed you some of the new improvements coming to Edge coming to the Windows 10 Creators Update, which is due to be released to the public this April. If you’re new to Windows 10 and the Edge browser, you should also be familiar with its fundamental features as well. Just like other modern web browsers, Microsoft Edge allows you to save and manage your website passwords....
We’ve covered other services and apps that will get the same posts on social networks like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. But this method is built into Facebook, and all you need to do is enable it. Facebook Posts to Twitter This is not limited to Facebook pages. You can also link your personal Facebook page to your Twitter account. Also, make sure you’re logged in to your Twitter account for this to work....
If you’re a new Windows 10 user and want to print from one of the new built-in Universal apps, you might not be sure what to do. Here’s a look at how to print from apps like Photos and Microsoft Edge, and a workaround to print a story from the News app. Print from Windows 10 Photos App When you have a photo open, select the photo you want to print, and then select the Print button at the upper-right corner and select Print from the dropdown menu....
Restore Thunderbird Messages from Manual Backup What you’ll need to do this: Thunderbird installedA previous backup of Thunderbird Emails and Profiles. To get started, make sure that Thunderbird is not running. Next, in Windows Explorer, right-click on your Thunderbird backup and extract it to your C:\Users\yourUsername\AppData\Roaming folder. This should put all of your backups right where Thunderbird wants them (assuming you followed our previous backup article). Next, in the Start Menu, type the following:...
However, anyone who gets a hold of your Mac, and who has intermediate computer skills, might be able to recover deleted files from your drive. Unless you delete them securely first. If you didn’t already securely delete your files, it’s not too late. If you have a regular spinning hard drive (HDD) in your Mac, you can securely wipe the free space on your Mac, preventing recovery of any files that were not securely deleted....
Change Google Calendar Default View To get started, launch a browser on your desktop and log into your Google Calendar if you aren’t already. Click the gear icon at the upper-right side of the screen and select Settings. Next, click on View Options from the menu on the left side of the page. Then from the view options menu on the right, click on the “Set custom view” dropdown menu....
Before you start, make sure you have a charger nearby. Nothing messes up a new device setup quite like losing power in the middle of it. I like beginning with the device fully charged to avoid any mishaps. Since you’ll be downloading apps and updates, make sure you have a quality internet connection. For example, a Starbucks or Hotel wifi connection should be avoided. Also, don’t tether from another Internet device....
While the option to bring these legacy icons back isn’t as simple as it was on previous versions of Windows, you can restore them using the Desktop Icon Settings menu. You can also customize the appearance of these icons to make them fit in with your chosen Windows 11 theme. If you want to make these classic desktop icons visible on your Windows 11 desktop, you’ll need to follow these steps....
We already showed you how to upgrade your Windows 7 computer to Windows 10; now, let’s look at going through the upgrade on Windows 8.1. Update: Microsoft has dropped support for Windows 8.1, as it explains in a blog post: Note: Before starting the upgrade, make sure you have all of your important data backed up first. Or you might even want to make a system image and create a recovery key before the upgrade....
