Text boxes let you emphasize or bring focus to specific text in a Microsoft Word document. You can choose from a variety of preformatted text boxes, or draw and format your own. They’re great for adding things like pull quotes, or even for laying out text and images on things like flyers. Word has a number of predefined text box styles you can use, or you can draw your own....

A table of figures is a list, sorted by page number, of the captions pulled from figures, images, or tables in your document. It’s like a table of contents, but it’s a table of anything to which you can add a caption. Insert a Table of Figures Adding a table of figures is a useful tool for allowing the reader to quickly navigate to specific parts of the document (or as a personal quick reference guide)....

The default “screensaver” for Plex Home Theater clients is to simply dim the screen. Let’s do away with that boring method and replace the dimming effect with fanart from your media collection or personal photos. RELATED: How to Store and View Your Photo Collection In Plex Media Server While the setup process is simple, there are a few caveats worth covering before we dive in. First and foremost, this trick only works on completely standalone Plex clients based on the Plex Home Theater software (like RasPlex, a Raspberry Pi-based Plex installation we’ve previously shown you how to set up)....

Branches are a core part of Git workflows, being used to keep unfinished code out of the master codebase. However, if you work with them a lot, you may have a bunch of unused branch references in your branch listing that need to be deleted. Why Delete Branches? It’s important to understand how branches work before you go about deleting them. First off, you’re not really deleting any code—you’re deleting the branch reference, which can still lead to data loss in some cases, but for most workflows is entirely harmless....

Recently, Google introduced a new feature in Google Drive that makes it easier to quickly access recently-opened or recently-edited files by displaying them at the top of the Google Drive page. However, if you want to disable this feature, you can do so easily. RELATED: All the Cloud Storage Services That Offer Free Storage Many users probably like this feature, but for some it’s just an annoyance and takes up precious screen real estate....

How to Edit Images in the Photos App In addition to being a great camera, the iPhone is a photo-editing powerhouse. Apple’s built-in tools are more than enough for most users to take a mediocre image and elevate it to the next level. Performing quick edits and crops has never been easier. You can edit photos on an iPad, too. If you have iCloud Photo Library set up, photos you take on your iPhone will sync to your iPad where you can edit them on the bigger screen....

Buying lenses for your camera isn’t always simple. The two major manufacturers, Canon and Nikon, both have different options depending on whether you’re getting a lens for a full-frame or crop sensor camera. Even if you’ve got a Canon camera, you can’t be sure that any Canon lens will work. RELATED: What’s the Difference Between a Full Frame and Crop Sensor Camera? Third parties, like Sigma and Tamron, make things even more confusing....

You’re having a night out. With dinner down the hatch, you’re walking down the street with your sweetheart to the next destination. You reach into your pocket to pull out your phone, when that feeling hits the pit of your stomach: your phone is missing. Did you leave it at the restaurant? Or maybe at home? Did someone steal it? Your mind races. You have no idea. Apple users have “Find My iPhone”, but is there a “Find My Android” function for Google folks?...

When you plug in an external drive to a Windows 10 machine, it appears as a separate entry in the navigation pane in Windows Explorer. But it also appears as an entry in the nested item under “This PC,” as seen next to Deadpool here. If this sort of thing drives you up the wall—like if you keep the My PC menu open all the time, and just want your navigation pane to be more tidy—there’s a way to curb this behavior with a little tweak in the Registry Editor....

One of the best things about buying digital books is that they can be updated after the initial publishing, and it usually doesn’t require buying a new version to get the latest updates. Kindle books are updated all the time, but you might not know unless you check. Finding Updates for Your Kindle Books You’ll be shown a confirmation that explains about the annotations, which you should read carefully if you use them....

When notating certain measurements like temperature, you’ll want to use the correct symbol in your documents. Microsoft Word makes it extremely easy to insert the degree symbol in your pages, and we’ll show you two ways to do that. One way to insert the degree symbol is to use a button in Word’s ribbon. The other method is to use a dedicated keyboard shortcut. To use the latter, your keyboard must have a numeric pad, or the shortcut won’t work for you....

Look, the whole point of Chrome OS is…Chrome. But if you’re a rebel and a fighter, you can step outside that box and do the unthinkable: Install Firefox on your Chromebook. Here’s how it’s done. Why You Might Want to Do This Really, there isn’t a whole lot of practical reasoning behind installing Firefox on a Chromebook. Maybe you just love Firefox, or maybe you just like doing things because you can—you know, for fun....

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run Linux software on your Windows 11 PC. When you enable WSL, Windows will install a custom-built Linux kernel. You can then install Ubuntu or another Linux distribution of your choice. How WSL Works on Windows 11 You can enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on all editions of Windows 11—even Windows 11 Home. (You can also install WSL on Windows 10....

Can’t get your Mac to start up? The problem could be software, in which case your best bet may be to reinstall macOS. If that fails, though, the problem could be hardware-related. Happily, Apple offers tools outside the operating system that can scan your computer and diagnose hardware problems. If your Mac is acting up, and you can’t find a software solution, these tools make troubleshooting a lot easier....

Siri can make use of the Shazam engine to identify songs it hears, which is pretty useful–especially if you’re using Siri hands-free.. Unfortunately, you can’t just ask Siri to show you a list of a songs you’ve identified. For that, you have to dive into the iTunes app or, for a more complete list, the Shazam app. Here’s how it all works. RELATED: 26 Actually Useful Things You Can Do with Siri...

We’ve previously shown you how to install WHS Vail on the following VMware Products: Workstation VMware Server VMware Player Today we complete our Vail VM series and show you how to install it on Oracle’s free VirtualBox. Note: You will need to install VirtualBox on a 64-bit Windows System that supports hardware virtualization. We’ve read some articles that you can install it on a system without Hardware Virtualization, but haven’t been able to confirm that....

Why Move From LastPass to Bitwarden Starting on March 16, 2021, LastPass is changing how its free plan works. You will no longer be able to use the desktop and mobile apps simultaneously. If you wish to use LastPass on your smartphone and your computer, you’ll need to pay for the company’s $3/month plan. RELATED: Why You Should Use a Password Manager, and How to Get Started Alternatively, you can switch to Bitwarden....

Signal is a popular app for those looking for a privacy-focused alternative to WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger. It has many of the features you’d expect from a messaging service, including a desktop app. We’ll show you how it works. One of the biggest selling points of Signal is the automatic end-to-end encryption of messages. If that’s something you’re interested in, you probably want it everywhere, not just on your phone....

Counting how many cells contain numbers is a basic and useful task. With this in mind, Microsoft Excel gives you a handy function to save you from counting cells manually. The function is COUNT and here’s how to use it. You may have a column full of both numbers and text where you only want the total count of the cells with numbers. You might even want this type of count for an entire sheet or ranges of nonadjacent cells....

When you’re assembling a new computer (or upgrading an old one), the motherboard and CPU have a few extra considerations that you need to keep in mind. First, they’re the most restrictive parts to pair: only a relative few processors will fit with your motherboard’s specific socket type. And second, the motherboard selection itself is going to determine a lot of the core capability and direction of your PC build....