Our guide below will show you the menu to which you need to navigate in order to enable this option on your device. Once it is turned on you will be able to select a segment of text and have a Speak option that will read the selected text out loud. Turn on Speak Selection on the iPhone This article was written using an iPhone 5, in iOS 8. After you follow this guide to enable this option, you can also configure settings for it, such as how quickly the text is spoken, whether the text is highlighted or not, and the voice that is used to say it....

You may already know that iMessages can be sent and received by Apple devices that are sharing the same iMessage account, but you might have been wishing that you could also send and receive text messages from devices other than your iPhone. Fortunately, Apple added this feature in an update for iOS 8, and that behavior is now possible. Our guide below will show you how you can enable your iPad to also send and receive text messages with the phone number attached to your iPhone....

Keep Top Row Visible While Scrolling in Excel 2013 This is a very simple adjustment that you can make in Excel that can greatly improve your accuracy, while also helping to eliminate a lot of frustration. The setting will also carry over if you email the file to someone else, ensuring that they will benefit from its’ usefulness as well. Step 1: Open your spreadsheet in Excel 2013. Step 2: Click the View tab at the top of the window....

There is a dedicated OneDrive app for the iPhone 5, and it offers a simple and convenient way to access files from your iPhone, as well as upload new files to your storage. Continue below to find out how to install and start using this app. While AirPods are a great way to listen to music or podcasts on your phone, you might eventually need to know how to turn off AirPod notifications if those start to affect the way you use your phone....

The badge app icon on the App Store, however, alerts you that there are updates available for apps that are installed on your iPhone. If you prefer not to be notified about this information via the badge app icon, then you can follow our short guide below and learn how to disable this setting. Additional information about these iPhone notifications can be found in our app icon badges tutorial for iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad....

Our guide below will show you how to find this app and install it so that you can start watching YouTube Gaming on your iPhone. Downloading the YouTube Gaming App The steps below were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 8.4. These same steps will work for other iPhone models running the same version of iOS, as well as other iPhone models running iOS 7 or higher. Note that streaming video can consume your cellular data very quickly....

Many users dislike the ribbon for various reasons, one of which is the amount of space that it occupies at the top of the screen. Fortunately this is something that you can adjust by electing to hide the ribbon when you are not using it. Our tutorial below will show you three separate ways that you can hide, or minimize, the ribbon in Word 2010. Minimizing the Ribbon in Microsoft Word 2010 The steps in this article are going to show you how to hide the Office ribbon from view in Microsoft Word 2010....

Regardless of whether you want better quality or you want to use less data, you can change the stream quality to affect both of those conditions. Our guide below will show you where to find the Spotify streaming quality in the iPhone app. How to Change the Audio Quality in Spotify on an iPhone Our guide continues below with additional information on changing the iPhone Spotify stream quality, including pictures of these steps....

While some of the more common mistakes involve spelling or grammar issues, you might also forget to cover an entire document after you’ve written most of your content. Rather than trying to move everything around manually to accommodate this oversight, you can find out how to insert a blank page in Word with the help of a tool on the Insert tab. How to Put a Blank Page in a Word Document Our guide continues below with additional information on how to insert a blank page in Word 2010, including pictures of these steps....

Our tutorial below will show you where to find this tool, as well as how to use it to insert another file into your document. The results of this will vary based on a lot of different factors, including the type of file that you are inserting, and the size of that document in relation to the size of your Word document. You may need to experiment with this tool a few times until you achieve the desired result for the type of file that you are trying to insert....

This could be something like a picture or video, but it could also include data. One good way to present data is in a table. Our tutorial below will show you how to insert a table in Powerpoint 2013 by following a short series of steps. Once you have the table in a slide you will be able to add data to it, as well as change its appearance....

Pictures are often irreplaceable, so it’s important to back them up. This portable hard drive makes it easy for you to create backups of any file on your computer. You can also move pictures to your computer with our how to transfer iPhone photos to PC guide and organize the images there. Creating a Picture Album on the iPhone 5 Albums on the iPhone are a little different than folders that you would create and use on a PC or a Mac computer....

While you may have already used the crop tool or rotated your image, there are also ways to affect the composition of the picture, such as changing its transparency levels. Our tutorial below will show you how to make an image transparent in Google Docs if you want to layer some of your document objects, or if the image doesn’t look good because it’s too opaque. How to Adjust the Transparency on a Picture in Google Docs Our guide continues below with additional information on changing an image’s transparency in a Google document, including pictures of these steps....

Occasionally this can make those characters too small, to the point where they may be tough to see. Our tutorial will show you how to increase just the size of the periods that you have in your Microsoft Word document. How to Change Period Size in Microsoft Word Our guide continues below with additional information on how to make periods bigger in Microsoft Word, including pictures of these steps. Related Topic: Check out our what is the largest font size in Word tutorial and learn how you can use larger font sizes in the documents that you edit....

Fortunately you can modify the amount of time that the iPad waits before it automatically locks the screen, ensuring that you won’t need to constantly unlock your iPad if you aren’t interacting with the device often enough. Increase the Auto-Lock Time on the iPad If you elect to set the auto-lock time to “Never”, then you will need to be very careful to manually lock the iPad before you put it in a bag or leave it on a desk....

How to Open a Specific Page or Set of Pages on Startup in Chrome If you are just moving to Google Chrome from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Mozilla’s Firefox, then you might be a little confused as to how to navigate the browser’s settings. Chrome takes a minimalist approach when it comes to the browser’s display, as that helps to improve the loading time of the browser, but all of the settings that you might need to adjust are still accessible....

If you are having difficulty locating the Settings menu, however, then making these changes can be very difficult. Fortunately, the Settings app cannot be deleted from your device, so it is still there somewhere. Our guide below will show you how to find the Settings app with the help of Spotlight Search. Using Spotlight Search to Find the Settings App The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 8....

Our guide below will show you how to adjust the Powerpoint 2013 settings so that all of your slideshows will print at high quality by default. Printing at High Quality in Powerpoint 2013 The steps in the article below will show you how to modify the default settings for Powerpoint 2013 so that all of your presentations print at high quality. If you wish to print a presentation at a lower quality, then you can do so by clicking the Full Page Slides button under Settings on the Print menu, then clicking the High Quality option to turn it off....

But creating a new checklist in the Notes app requires several steps, and you may be looking for a faster way to create a new one. Our tutorial below will show you a fast way to make a checklist on your iPhone that uses a special menu that you can access via the 3D Touch feature of the device. How to Create a New Checklist on an iPhone 7 The steps in this guide were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10....

If you have an iPhone, it’s very similar to the way that you would capture a picture on that device, too. But the iPad camera has a horizontal slider that lets you change app modes, and one of the options there lets you record video. Our tutorial below will show you how to record a video on your iPad using just the default Camera app. How to Record an iPad Video Our guide continues below with additional information about how to record video on an iPad, including pictures of these steps....