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Excel, while highly revered for its infinite data-crunching power, isn’t particularly geared toward printer-friendliness. But occasionally, you will want to get your spreadsheets on paper. While encryption and password protection tools in Excel will keep your spreadsheets secure in their digital form, a watermark can help properly mark and control your sensitive data when you print it out. In this article, we’ll show you how. Add an Image as a Watermark to Your Workbooks in Excel Compared to Microsoft Word documents, formatting in Excel is a little unintuitive....

Add Another Mailbox in Outlook 2016 1. To add another mailbox, launch Microsoft Outlook 2016, then click the File tab > click Info tab > Account Settings. 2. In Account Settings, select your current Mailbox and click Change. 3. On the next screen, select More Settings. 4. Select the Advanced tab and click the Add button. 5. Type in the name of the mailbox, then click OK. 6. Once the name of your mailbox is created, click Add and Apply....

How To Change The Time Windows Startup Takes To Automatically Choose And Boot the Default Operating System Click the Start Menu Orb and then Type CMD into the search box. Next Right-Click the cmd.exe program link and Select Run as administrator. In the command prompt Type bcedit /timeout 180 and then Press Enter. Note: 180 represents the number of seconds that the Windows Boot Manager will wait before automatically booting into the default Operating System....

When we start to talk about PHP and scripting, it cannot sound straightforward. This time, it isn’t. Basically, you will be downloading a pre-made PHP-script-based web page that will grant permission to upload to your Dropbox. We will need to do a few edits on it in the following steps, but for the most part, all of the hard work has already been done for us, thanks to the script developer!...

As with any email account, there are some emails that you’d rather not receive in the first place. Thankfully, it’s simple to block any accounts you want to in Gmail. Blocking a user doesn’t mean you won’t receive their email, but it will send their emails straight to your spam folder so that you don’t have to see it unless you want to. If you want to block someone in Gmail, here’s what you’ll need to do....

Windows 7 users, skip to step 2. Windows 8 users click the desktop metro app. Right click the sound icon in the system tray and click Sounds. Click the down arrow under Sound Scheme and select your preferred one. If you don’t have a favorite Sound Scheme you can highlight it then click the Test button to hear it. Click OK to save. That’s it! Now you can use whatever Windows Theme you want and still be able to tweak the Sound Scheme of it....

For example, our profile username is set to facebook.com/groovypost, and any Facebook URL like this should take you to a user or business profile. While you thought it was a good idea at the time, as you progress through life, you might want to change it to something else. Let’s look at the steps you can use to change your Facebook username below. Rules for a New Facebook Username Note: To change your Facebook username, you must do it on the web version of Facebook in a browser....

Maybe you used your full name, but you’re known by a shorter version. Maybe you’ve been married, divorced, and remarried since. Whatever your reason, the good news is that changing your name on Facebook is a fairly simple process, provided you follow the rules. If you want to change your name on Facebook, here’s what you’ll need to do. Facebook Rules for Names Before you start thinking about changing your name on Facebook, you need to make sure that the name you want to use is going to be allowed....

So, although a bit late let’s go ahead and cover the details for clearing cache, history, and cookies from IE8. How-To Clear Temp. Internet files, Cookies, Website History & Passwords Saving all this data on your computer is a good thing in most cases. It can improve web page performance/browsing speed and also prevent you from having to type the same thing over and over. However, there are many reasons why you might not want this kind of data floating around on your PC or perhaps a PUBLIC PC....

From your phone, go to Settings »Lock Screen. Choose Screen Security and tap on Screen lock. You’ll be given a number of lock types. Choose Face Unlock. You’ll see a few details about the Face Unlock feature. Tap on Set it up. You’ll see two tips for the capturing your face optimally. Try to follow these and tap on the Continue button. Hold your phone in front of your face (at eye level as advised) and wait until the software detects it....

The main Windows Phone 8 screen can be customized the way you like. Windows Phone users could already move tiles by long pressing them and moving them around on the screen. Microsoft has gone a step further this time, by allowing the user to change the size of tiles larger or smaller. Based on the data you need more or less prominent. Hold your finger on the tile you want to modify the size of....

While it’s a convenient feature that lets you “set and forget” during installation, you might not want your files stored in the cloud on Microsoft’s servers. Instead, you may prefer to keep them stored locally on a drive or a different third-party service. You may have no reason to sync files between PCs. Whatever the reason, you can disable OneDrive on Windows 11—here’s how to do it. How to Disable OneDrive on Windows 11 If you think OneDrive serves no purpose for your computing needs, you can disable it....

Download Your Twitter Archive Launch a browser on your computer and log in to your Twitter account if you’re not already. Then click on More from the menu on the left-hand side. Then from the menu that pops up click on Settings and privacy. Next, on the Settings page, click on Your account and then Download an archive of your data. On the next page, you will need to confirm your password....

People really do panic when a Google service goes down for even a second, while we find it rather funny when people are having panic attacks, they should be ready to deal with these interruptions, have their data backed up, or set to use offline. Now, two-factor authentication, which we’ve discussed here and highly recommend, and all of the security measures you take do make your Google account safer, nothing is better than a copy of your data....

Say No To Expensive Ringtones The second problem with purchasing ringtones is it leaves you with no control over the content of the ringtone. Most commercial ringtones will only play a particular part of the chorus of each song, and if you like a different part of the song then you are out of luck! Here is what you’ll need to make your own ringtones: True, you could just transfer the entire MP3 of your song straight to your phone without editing, but it wouldn’t work too well....

There’s two things to note about weather in the Chronos time widget. The first is that you won’t be able to view weather unless you’re viewing a half-screen size version of the widget. This thing has to be a height of at least 3 rows before it will show you the weather, width doesn’t matter as much as it will scale down. The second thing is that while all other settings for the widget are available in the Clock app, weather is located elsewhere....

Login to the Google Apps Admin Dashboard. Click the Advanced Tools Tab. Check the box Allow users to turn on 2-step authentication. Note: Once the box is checked, the 2-step auth. feature will be instantly for all Google Apps users on that account. Test the setting by going to the Security section under your Account. You should now be able to enable Google 2-Step Verification. Comment Name * Email *...

However, there might be times when you want to go old school and export and back up a list of your passwords. Then secure them in a secure location locally or on a network. Here’s how. Export and Backup Your LastPass Password Vault First, make sure to log into your LastPass account. You don’t need to go into your vault. You’ll know your logged in as the LastPass icon on your browser’s toolbar will be red....

Fix 100% Disk Usage in Windows 10 When you’re trying to figure out what’s causing the slowdown, you might have noticed that the Disk usage is 100% in Task Manager. One of the easiest ways to find the culprit is to click the Disk column in Task Manager, so the items taking up more resources display in descending order. Like in this example shown below, you can see SuperFetch is likely the culprit....

Previously, we showed you how to create a System Performance report that summarizes system processes and hardware components. But a System Diagnostics report provides a more comprehensive look at the hardware, software configurations (including the OS), system response times, and much more. Basically, a System Diagnostic test gives you a lot more information on all aspects of your system. Generate a Windows 10 System Diagnostic Report Note that you need to be logged in as an Administrator to run the report (which can also be generated on Windows 7)....