Your iPhone contains a lot of important personal information that you probably don’t want strangers or thieves to find. This can include things like banking information and personal information, but it can also allow them to access your email accounts and social media, which can be nearly as damaging as accessing your finances. One of the ways that you can add some security to your iPhone is with a passcode....

Once created, you will need to input that passcode whenever you want to use your iPhone. This passcode provides a level of security for all of your personal information, emails, and apps, as strangers with physical access to your iPhone will not be able to use the device unless they know your passcode. Whether this means people in your office, or a criminal that steals your iPhone, requiring a passcode is an important element of keeping your iPhone data safe....

One feature that can help make typing a little more efficient is called Smart Punctuation, and it can automatically add certain types of punctuation. But this may conflict with your typing habits, and you might prefer to disable this setting. Our tutorial below will show you where to find and disable it. How to Disable the Smart Punctuation Setting on an iPhone The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11....

Fortunately the Outlook 2013 notification settings are adjustable, and you can disable that sound if you would like. Our guide below will show you how. How to Disable the Outlook 2013 New Email Sound The steps below are going to change a setting on the Outlook 2013 Options menu so that you stop hearing the notification sound that plays when a new email arrives in your inbox. There are several other notification settings on this menu as well, so you can take this opportunity to adjust them to suit your needs as well....

You can use a multi-color fill in Excel 2013 by taking advantage of a gradient fill effect that is found on the Font Settings menu. Our guide below will show you where to find and how to use this fill option so that you can start applying gradient fills to your cells as needed. How to Do a Gradient Fill in Excel 2013 The steps in this guide are going to show you how to fill a cell or selection of cells in Excel 2013 with a gradient....

Microsoft Excel has a huge selection of tools and settings that you can use to accomplish a lot of things. One of the most useful elements of Excel, however, is the ability to create macros and automate certain processes. Macros are found on the Developer tab in Microsoft Excel 2007, but that tab is not visible by default. You can choose to display the Developer tab in the ribbon, though, by changing one setting on the Excel Options menu....

One of the default apps that some apps will want to access is Photos. If you have an app that scans pictures, or lets you edit them, then that app will need access to your pictures. But if you have decided that you no longer wish to permit that access, then you have the ability to turn it off. Our tutorial below will show you where to find the Photos permissions on your iPhone so that you can edit them as needed....

Loading remote images like this can cause the emails to take a little longer to load, plus it can cause you to use more cellular data if you view a lot of these images when you are connected to a cellular network. But if you find that your iPhone’s emails aren’t loading these pictures and that you would prefer to see the messages as they were intended to be viewed, then our tutorial below will show you a setting to enable that will let you load remote images in your emails....

Our tutorial below will show you a method for adding web page links to the iPhone Home screen so that you can tap those icons and open them in Safari. How to Add a Web Shortcut to the iPhone Home Screen Our guide continues below with additional information on adding a link button to the Home screen on an iPhone, including pictures of these steps. Is there a Web page that you visit a lot, and you don’t like having to manually navigate to it every time you open Safari?...

But if you are new to Google Slides, then you may be having trouble figuring out how to do that. Our tutorial below will show you how to add a new slide in Google Slides, either to a new presentation file, or to an existing one that just needs a little more information. How to Insert a New Slide in Google Slides The steps in this article were performed in the desktop version of Google Chrome....

Hence, many users fail to import iPhone contacts to their new Android phones, or to another device where they would like to be able to access their iPhone contacts with Gmail. But you don’t have to worry about that as we have an option that can help you out with this process. Here we will discuss how to back up iPhone 13 contacts to Gmail. From our detailed guide, you’ll get the simplest methods to save iPhone contacts and sync them to your iOS devices or any other mobile device....

Fortunately there are ways to avoid all of this data entry, and one of them involves using a formula that will automatically convert existing, lowercase text to uppercase text. Our tutorial below will walk you through the process of making this conversion in Excel 2013 so that you can quickly turn lowercase data into uppercase data. Our guide on how to capitalize all letters in Excel can provide you with additional information on making this conversion in your spreadsheet....

One unfortunate side effect of this behavior, however, is that I have a lot of notes. If you also use the Notes app, then you have likely noticed that your notes are sorted a certain way, typically with the last note that you edited displayed at the top of this list. But if you would prefer to sort your notes in a different way, such as by the date they were created, or by the title of the note, then our tutorial below will show you where to change that setting....

But many of the emails that you receive may have similar subjects and begin the same way, which can make it tough to distinguish similar emails from one another. One way to help this problem is by showing more message preview lines in your inbox. This is a setting that you can control in Outlook 2013, and you can select between 0 and 3 preview lines. So continue below to see how to make that adjustment....

But if you don’t want to pay to increase your Google Drive storage, or if you have increased it and stored a lot of files in your Google Drive cloud storage, then you could be running out of space. One way to resolve this is to delete files from Google Drive that you don’t need anymore. You may already be familiar with how to do this on your desktop or laptop computer, but you can do it in the Google Drive app on your iPhone as well....

But you may not want sites to have access to that ability when you’re browsing on your iPhone, and would prefer to disable the feature. Our guide below will show you where to find the Apple Pay setting in Safari so that you can turn it off. How to Block Checks for Apple Pay from Sites That You Visit in Safari on an iPhone The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11....

Google Slides is a great alternative to Microsoft Powerpoint for Google users. It’s accessible through a Web browser on a computer with an Internet connection, and it’s easy to work together with another Google user. But occasionally you will need to create a copy of that file in another file format. You can create a PDF of your slideshow, but you can also create image files of an individual image in your presentation....

But as you discover that you need a new column of data, you may not want to add it to the first empty column at the right end of the spreadsheet, but rather you want to add it in between two of your existing columns. Instead of cutting and pasting all of your sheets to a new location you can insert a column and include the desired data in those cells instead....

You can mute your Apple Watch either directly from the watch, or through the Watch app on your iPhone.Putting your Apple Watch into silent mode won’t mute alarms or timers if the watch is charging.You can also tap the icon on the watch with two masks on it to put the watch into theater mode. This will mute the Apple Watch and prevent the screen from illuminating. Like most of the other electronic devices that you own, your Apple Watch can make some noises....

When you use a lot of formulas in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, it’s likely that some of those formula values will change as you edit the data in your spreadsheet. When there are only a couple of formulas or a small amount of data, this can be easy to monitor, but it becomes more difficult as you have more data. One way that you can keep an eye on important data is with the Watch Window....