There are plenty of ways to make text stand out in Google Docs. You can use a specific font style, formatting, or highlight text with color. Another option is to add borders or shading to your paragraphs. Maybe you have a report where you want to put a box around a block of text. Or maybe you have an instructional document where you want to color a paragraph of essential text....
Finding Friends in Pokémon Sword and Shield Pokémon Sword and Shield’s friend system uses Nintendo Switch’s native friend list. Friends will automatically appear in the game’s new in-menu multiplayer hub, Y-Comm. To access it, press the Y button on your right Joy-Con controller. Then, you can do just about anything, including trade Pokémon, swap League Cards, battle friends, and more. Most importantly, there’s a feed on the right that provides information about what other people online are up to....
You don’t need to use the full range of Photoshop features to create or edit your images. One of the simplest tasks is adding or editing text to images in Photoshop. Here’s how to do it. Adding Text in Photoshop On the left side of the Photoshop window is the toolbar, with a horizontal list of features and tools you can use to manipulate your image. To add text, click the T icon or press T on your keyboard....
Windows 10’s Start menu is very customizable. Add website shortcuts to your Start menu and you can quickly access your favorite websites by clicking a tile. This works with Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or any other browser. The instructions are a bit different for each browser, however, so we’ll go through them one by one. Microsoft Edge RELATED: 10 Ways to Customize the Windows 10 Start Menu The Microsoft Edge browser included with Windows 10 makes this easy....
Have you ever wondered why you can only turn Quiet Hours on or off in Windows 10, but not set the actual hours you want? We have, too. But with a little Registry or Group Policy hack, it turns out you can. RELATED: How to Configure Do Not Disturb Mode in Windows 10 Windows 8 introduced the idea of Quiet Hours—Windows’ version of Do Not Disturb, where notifications won’t notify you during those hours....
Why a Shell Is Important The shell sits between you and the operating system. It provides the environment inside a terminal window that allows you to type commands and run programs. The shell checks your input and figures out what you want. If it can perform your bidding itself, it does so. If it needs outside help, it searches the path and finds the programs that can do whatever it is you requested....
Web browsers you use on your mobile phone or tablet remember your browsing history, just like browsers on your PC or Mac. Anyone who borrows your phone or gets access to it somehow can see which webpages you’ve visited. However, it’s easy to protect yourself. RELATED: Beginner: How to Clear Your Web History in Chrome, Firefox and IE9 Previously, we showed you how to clear your browsing history in Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer 9 on your PC....
Crashplan’s backup control app and engine are dead simple to configure and control from the computer they’re running on, but controlling them across the network require some well hidden tricks. Well great minds certainly think alike. You’re embarking on a backup streamlining journey we ourselves undertook a few years back. Before you embark too far on the journey we do want to point out one small hiccup you’ll experience....
Google Wifi has some very useful tools for managing your home network. Among these tools is the ability to create labels with specific device groups—like “kids” or even “computers”—for easy pausing and unpausing of multiple devices at once. RELATED: How to Enable a Guest Network on the Google WiFi System Using this feature couldn’t be simpler. Go ahead and fire up the Wifi app to get started. Scroll over to the far right tab, which is where you’ll find Shortcuts and Settings....
If you have kids, then you might know a thing or two about how difficult it can be to yank them away from their computers and other devices so they get their chores done on time or just spend quality time with the family. Eero, the robust whole-house Wi-Fi system, has a feature that makes this easy. RELATED: How to Set Up the Eero Home Wi-Fi System With the Family Profiles feature, you can set time limits on each user and block them from internet access starting at 8pm, for instance, and then reinstate it later that night....
With Google Docs’ download option, you can download some or all documents from the cloud to your desktop and mobile devices in various formats. These formats include the popular ones like PDF and Microsoft Word (DOCX). We’ll show you how to do that. In Google Docs on your desktop and Android phone, you can download your documents in your preferred format. On an iPhone or iPad, though, you can only make your documents available for offline use....
With Windows 10, Microsoft seems to have disabled System Restore by default — at least on some PCs. System Restore has been around since Windows ME, creating snapshots of system files you can restore if a problem occurs. Windows 10 still does contain System Restore, so you can re-enable it if you feel more comfortable with System Restore as a safety net. Windows 10 also offers other system-recovery features, helping lessen the need for System Restore....
PowerShell 3 has a lot of new features, including some powerful new web-related features. They dramatically simplify automating the web, and today we are going to show you how you can extract every single link off a webpage, and optionally download the resource if you so wish. Scraping The Web With PowerShell There are two new cmdlets that make automating the web easier, Invoke-WebRequest which makes parsing human readable content easier, and Invoke-RestMethod which makes machine readable content easier to read....
Stick the paper clip down the hole and press down. You’ll feel a click, just like a button press. Hold that for five seconds. After you finish pressing the reset button, the light ring on the Echo will light up orange for about a minute. After that, the light ring will turn blue and eventually you’ll hear Alexa say, “Hello”. At that point, the device is ready to be set up again....
If you’ve recently made the jump to Windows 8 and you’re puzzled over the seemingly limited thumbnail size choices, read on as we highlight how to get extra large thumbnails back (and some very handy keyboard shortcuts that give you access to a whopping 45 thumbnail size choices). Isn’t that how it goes? We get used to things being a certain way and then a new version of our favorite software or OS comes out and, although the underlying functionality is usually still there, it’s tweaked just enough to irritate us and force us to learn a new shortcut or trick....
grep is a powerful text searching utility on Linux, but it isn’t available on Windows. While there are third party ports and solutions, PowerShell offers built-in equivalents to grep that will do the same job in your scripts. Using findstr to grep Search In PowerShell There are a couple different search utilities in PowerShell, each with their own strengths. The simplest is findstr, which is a native windows executable. This works well to replace grep for simple search operations at the command line....
With the use of skins, you can customize the UI and style of the Steam client to whatever you would prefer on Windows 10. Here’s how to do it, step by step. First, Download Your Favorite Steam Skin To use a Steam skin, you’ll have to find one on the internet. To search for the best Steam skins, we recommend visiting steamskins.org, a website that provides slick themes for your client....
Today’s Ask How-To Geek is a bit of a role reversal: most people want an easy way to get their photos from their phone to their Facebook account but we’re solving a problem for a reader who wants to get his Facebook photos from his account to his phone. Read on as we show him how. Part of the reason we love reader emails so much is because they often times get us thinking about a problem we didn’t know we had....
Using a pivot table, you can analyze large amounts of data easily. But as we all know, data can and often does change. To make sure that your data is current, here’s how to refresh a pivot table in Excel. Whether the data in your pivot table comes from an external source or the same workbook, you can update it manually or automatically. You can also adjust a setting so that the formatting doesn’t change when you update the table....
If you use the Windows Registry much, you’ve probably bookmarked some favorite locations. Registry Editor stores those favorites in—you guessed it—the Registry, so it’s easy to back them up or transfer them to another PC. RELATED: How to Bookmark Locations in the Windows Registry Standard warning: Registry Editor is a powerful tool and misusing it can render your system unstable or even inoperable. This is a pretty simple hack and as long as you stick to the instructions, you shouldn’t have any problems....
