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If you use the Firefox browser on your iPhone, then you may have noticed that if you have copied and pasted a Web address from another app, then open Firefox, that it is prompting you to open that copied link. This is meant to be a matter of convenience, but it’s possible that you don’t like that feature. Our guide below will show you how to disable it. Firefox Prompt to Open Copied Links Setting The steps in this guide were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 12....

Google distributes a program called Google Calendar Sync, and it is the perfect solution when you want to achieve a Google Calendar Sync in Outlook 2010. Once you have downloaded the program to your computer and completed the installation, it is very easy to configure the utility to enable your desired syncing between your Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook 2010. Google Calendar users can also access those calendars on their iPhone with Google’s dedicated app if they don’t like the Apple calendar app....

The Google Docs iPhone app lets you perform many of the same document editing tasks that you can perform when working with documents in a desktop or laptop’s Web browser. But the change to the interface that is required with a smaller device like an iPhone means that the layout of Google Docs is very different. If you’re new to the Google Docs iPhone app and are trying to familiarize yourself with the location of many of its features, you may be struggling to do something like changing the font....

One way that you can improve the grammar in your writing is with the help of the spelling and grammar checker tool in Microsoft Word. Our article below will show you how to check your grammar in Word using the tool built into the application. How to Do a Grammar Check in Word 2010 Our guide continues below with more information on checking spelling and grammar in a Microsoft Word document, including pictures of these steps....

Fortunately there is a feature on your iPhone called “Do Not Disturb While Driving” that will automatically mute your notifications if the device senses that you are in a car. Our tutorial below will show you how to add a button to the Control Center that you can press to quickly enable this setting at any time. How to Put a Do Not Disturb While Driving Shortcut on the iPhone Control Center The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11....

Our guide below will show you how to add a shape to a slide in a presentation in Powerpoint 2013. You can then adjust the size and appearance of the shape to meet the needs of your presentation. How to Draw Shapes in Powerpoint 2013 The steps in this article will show you how to draw a circle on a slide in a Powerpoint 2013 presentation. These same steps can be used to draw any of the other available shapes as well....

Some people have strong opinions about the amount of spacing that should occur after a sentence in a document, but Microsoft Word 2013 defaults to the assumption that one space is correct. This can be problematic if you need to have two spaces after a period in Word, however, as it is a very difficult thing to check for. Luckily there is an option on the Word Grammar check menu where you can specify the number of spaces that should appear after a period....

But occasionally a contact that you had previously created may become a problem, and you would prefer that they not be able to reach you on your iPhone anymore. Fortunately your iPhone 6 has a tool that allows you to block a contact so that they are unable to reach you from their listed contact methods either via phone number, text message, or FaceTime. Blocking a Contact in iOS 9 The steps in this article were written using an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9....

Blurring Picture Sides with Photoshop CS5 One off the more popular sets of filters on the Filter menu is the Blur filters. Within this subset of options is the Gaussian blur, which we have previously written about using to blur the background of an image in Photoshop CS5. While blurring the sides of an image in Photoshop CS5 is similar to blurring the background, it is actually a simpler task that is going to require the use of a different set of tools than the ones required to blur the background....

Our tutorial below will show you how to adjust the size of the pages in your Google document. How to Change Paper Size – Google Docs Our article continues below with additional information on changing the paper size in Google Docs, including pictures of these steps. Our convert PDF to Google Doc tutorial will show you an easy way to start editing your PDFs. Word processing applications like Microsoft Word and Google Docs include a handful of options that are set as default....

While this can be helpful if you have a general idea of how large you want the box to be, it can be difficult to work with when you need it to be an exact size. Fortunately Google Slides lets you format your text boxes in a couple of ways, including the width and height scale of the box. Our guide below will show you how to select a text box in Google Slides and change its scale so that you can make it the exact desired size relative to the entire slide....

Fortunately the iPhone has several different subtitle styles from which you can select. You can even elect to customize your own subtitle styling if you don’t like any of the default choices. Our tutorial below will show you where to find the subtitle style menu on an iPhone so that you can see the different choices and pick the one that you like best. How to Change the Appearance of Subtitles and Captions in iOS 11 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11....

Our tutorial below will show you which menu contains the information that you need to modify when changing your computer’s name on a MacBook Air. This is ideal if you have multiple similar devices on a network that are difficult to identify from one another, or if the default name given to the MacBook Air is inaccurate or unhelpful. How to Rename a MacBook Air The steps in this article were performed on a MacBook Air using the MacOS High Sierra operating system....

But you may be missing certain features or functions if you aren’t using the most recent version. Luckily you can enable an option that will check for updates automatically so that you can download them as they become available. How to See If You Can Download an iTunes Update in Windows Our guide continues below with additional information on checking for iTunes updates, including pictures of these steps. The iTunes program that you use to manage your music and video collection gets updated a lot....

Fortunately Google Sheets provides you with the ability to simply clear all of the formatting from a selection at once instead. This “Clear formatting” option can be very helpful when you need it, so continue reading below to see how to use it in Google Sheets. You can use a similar option for documents, too. Our article on how to clear formatting in Google Docs will show you the steps in that application....

Use the Purge Command in Photoshop CS5 to Clear the Clipboard You may have noticed this option before when attempting to perform an option in Photoshop, but you might have been needlessly worried about the negative connotations of the word “Purge.” While it might seem like a very serious action that can have negative implications on your image, it is actually a simple way to empty a clipboard that has become too large....

Force Close an App on the iPad The tutorial below was written using an iPad 2 running the iOS 7 version of the operating system. If you have an iPad 2 or newer model and you have not yet updated to iOS 7, you can read this article to learn how. The method below is going to take you to a screen that displays all of your most recently open apps....

Occasionally a printer will break, stop working, or get replaced, so you need to uninstall it from your computer. Often this can be as simple as removing the device from Windows 7. But it can also be a little more complicated than that, especially if the problem that you were having was related to a bad driver installation or a hidden file stuck in your print queue. Fortunately our guide below can provide some solutions to the problems that you are having as you try to completely remove a printer from your Windows 7 computer....

Creating a Desktop Folder in Windows 7 Just to clear up any potential confusion, your Windows 7 desktop is the screen that you see after you have turned on your computer and entered your Windows 7 password. For the average person, a desktop would look something like the image below. Now you may already have folders on your desktop that were created by someone else, or that you dragged to the desktop from another folder....

An iPhone keyboard shortcut consists of a series of letters which, when typed, will automatically be replaced by another phrase. Fortunately these phrases can include emojis, which means that you can type a series of letters and have it transform into a specific series of emojis. Our tutorial below will show you how to create one of these shortcuts. Create a Shortcut for a Specific Emoji (or Emojis) in iOS 8 The steps in this article were written using an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 8....