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If you are looking to replace an older iPad, or if you are thinking about giving one as a gift, check out the iPad Mini. It is less expensive and more portable, plus it is getting some excellent reviews. Change Spotlight Search Settings on the iPad The Spotlight Search is the option that shows up on your screen when you swipe to the right from your Home screen. If you have a lot of information on your device it can be extremely helpful....

But it’s not always easy to find the tool for the job, and it’s possible that you are struggling to try to figure out how to fill a selection in Photoshop. Luckily there is a dedicated option for adding color to a selection in your image, which we will show you how to use in our tutorial below. How to Add Color to a Photoshop Selection Our guide continues below with additional information on how to fill a selection in Photoshop, including pictures of these steps....

Fortunately you can visit your Privacy menu and view which iPhone 5 apps have access to your photos. If there are some that you do not want to grant access to, you will be able to change remove their access. View the Apps on Your iPhone 5 That Can Access Photos The steps below will show you how to see the list of apps on your device that can access your photos....

But this can lead to a very crowded desktop, making it difficult to locate the files you want, or to see the picture that you have set as your background. But rather than deleting or moving the files from the desktop, you can instead choose to hide icons on the Desktop. The files and shortcuts that are there will still be accessible from within programs, files and folders, but they will no longer be visible when you are viewing your desktop....

But there is another section of your spreadsheet that is taking up space and, fortunately, you can also elect to hide the formula bar as well. This is the large horizontal bar between the ribbon and the spreadsheet, identified in the image below. Hiding the Formula Bar in Microsoft Excel 2013 The steps below will hide the formula bar from view in every spreadsheet that you open in Microsoft Excel 2013....

How Do You Add a Comment to Word 2010 Comments are incredibly useful if you are working on a group project. Each person that comments on the document is assigned a different color for their comments, and their initials are displayed next to the comment that they have added. This provides a level of accountability that makes it simple to determine who has a particular question, thereby helping to put it into context....

Our guide below will show you how to insert a degree symbol in Google Docs. How to Get the Degrees Symbol on Google Docs Supply: If you’ve previously used this menu during your current session, it might say something different. Google document Tools: ComputerInternet Materials: Google account login credentials Now that you know how to add a degree symbol in Google Docs you will be able to use this method any time a document needs the degree symbol or any of the other symbols that are found on that same menu....

How to Make a Header in Excel 2013 The header in Excel 2013 is separate from the grid of cells that is displayed on your screen and is often not even visible. But it will be visible when the spreadsheet is printed, which is often the only reason that information is added to the top of a spreadsheet. So continue reading below to learn how to insert a header in Excel 2013....

But your iPad does have access to the App Store, which is a marketplace featuring thousands of different apps. So if you have an app in mind that you want to download and use on your iPad, you can follow our guide below to find and install new apps directly from your Internet-connected iPad. Find and Install an App from the iPad App Store This process is going to require you to know the password for your Apple ID....

If you would like to keep the iPhone in portrait orientation either permanently or for an extended period of time, then you can follow our tutorial below on how to lock portrait orientation on the iPhone 5. How to Turn on Portrait Orientation Lock on an iPhone 5 Our guide continues below with additional information about how to lock portrait orientation on an iPhone 5, including pictures of these steps....

But if you have some other way that you would like to sort your pictures, then a good option is to create your own photo folders. You can then select pictures that you want to include in those folders, allowing you to create a new way to browse through your picture library. Making New Albums or Folders for Photos in iOS 9 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9....

But if you have read all of your important messages and are still seeing the red circle enclosing a white number at the corner of your Mail icon, then you might be wondering how to make it go away. You could manually open each message to mark it as read, but that can be annoying if most of the unread mail is junk. Fortunately you can quickly and easily mark all of your email messages as read on the iPad using the few short steps below....

Apps that you put into folders do not need to stay there permanently, however, so you may find that you want to remove an app from a folder and place it directly on your Home screen. The method for doing so is similar to the method that was originally employed to put the app in the folder, but reversed. Our tutorial below will walk you through the steps required to move an app from a folder on your iPhone 6....

While the tool that you need to use isn’t obvious, there is one that can perform this task and give you the result you seek. Photoshop Outline Selection Guide Our tutorial continues below with additional information on how to outline a selection in Photoshop, including pictures of these steps. You may need to change the layout of objects in your image pretty often, including layers that contain words. You can read our how to move text in Photoshop tutorial and find out how to reposition it....

Our tutorial will explain how to locate the feature in Word 2011 that allows you to add and create a password for your document. It is important to save the document when you have finished so that this setting applies to the document. You can then share the document and the password with anyone that you want to be able to read it. Password Protect a Word for Mac 2011 Document The steps in this article will allow you to add a password to a document with the Word for Mac 2011 program....

The option to print background pictures (and background page colors, for that matter) is turned off by default in Word 2010. But the ability to view background pictures is not limited to individuals that are reading a document on the computer, and you can adjust the settings in Word 2010 so that your background picture prints along with your document. Print a Background Image in Word 2010 The steps in this article will show you how to change the settings in Microsoft Word 2010 so that any images that you have added to the background will also print when you print your document....

The lines that you are seeing are called “gridlines.” They form barriers between individual cells by showing lines on the top and bottom of each row and the left and right of each column. New spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel don’t print these gridlines by default, but a spreadsheet that someone else created previously might have them. Luckily removing these gridlines is a very similar process to adding them, so our guide below will show you how to remove printed gridlines in Excel....

How to Clear Cell Shading in Microsoft Excel Our guide continues below with additional information on how to remove shading in Excel, including pictures of these steps. Cell fill colors in Microsoft Excel can be a really effective way to highlight certain rows or columns that are related, or deserve additional attention. But if you move rows or columns around, then this cell shading or fill color can become problematic or incorrect....

Firefox has a search bar next to the address bar that you might never use and only click in accidentally. Our tutorial below will show you how to get rid of the Firefox search bar by making a small change in the application’s settings menu. How to Remove the Firefox Search Bar Our guide continues below with additional information about removing the search bar from the top of the screen in Firefox, including pictures of these steps....

This is a pretty common problem, as the default names for Excel worksheets aren’t particularly helpful. Fortunately, you can give your worksheet tabs custom names that make them far more useful. Our tutorial below will show you the steps that you need to follow to rename a worksheet tab in Excel. How to Give an Excel Worksheet a New Name Our guide continues below with additional information on how to rename a worksheet tab in Excel, including pictures of these steps....