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Our tutorial below will show you how to use the email search feature in Outlook 2013 to quickly find all of the messages in your inbox that contain an attachment. You can then scroll through those search results to find the email you need, or you can select a bunch of them to delete files and free up some space on your email server. How to Find the Emails with Attachments in Your Inbox in Outlook 2013 The steps in this article were performed in Microsoft Outlook 2013....

Fortunately this is a setting that you can adjust. Our tutorial below will show you how to turn off the automatic list detection and get Google Docs to stop automatically creating lists. How to Turn Off List Detection in Google Docs The steps in this guide were performed in the desktop version of Google Chrome, but will also work in other browsers like Firefox or Edge. Step 1: Sign into Google Drive and open an existing Google Docs document or create a new one....

But there are some other actions on your cell phone that can use a lot of data, such as downloading your emails. If you have checked your cellular data usage on the Settings > Cellular menu and found that one of the biggest users of cellular data is the Mail app, then you might be interested in stopping that. Our tutorial below will show you how to turn off this setting and block the Mail app from using any data when you aren’t connected to a Wi-Fi network....

One of these options will have the iPhone speak words as they are typed on the device so that someone who has difficulty reading the screen will know what words they have typed. But if this setting is currently enabled on your iPhone and you either don’t want it or don’t need it, then it could be an unwanted effect. Our guide below will show you how to stop your iPhone from speaking words while you type so that you can type in text messages or emails without a voice repeating everything that you type....

This allows it to keep the iPhone at the ideal brightness level to maximize viewability and battery life. But you can learn how to turn off auto brightness on your iPhone if you would prefer not to use that setting. How to Stop the iPhone Auto Brightness Adjustments Our guide continues below with additional information on how ot turn off auto brightness on an IPhone 7, including pictures of these steps....

But you might already be checking your Mail app with some regularity, or you simply might not care enough about your new emails to justify the constant alerts that accompany new emails. Fortunately you are able to control the way you receive notifications from the Mail app, and you can even elect to turn off all of those notifications. Our tutorial below will show you where to find that setting....

But you might find that you use double-spacing more than you realized, and that this shortcut is actually causing problems when you are typing text messages or emails. Fortunately you are able to disable the shortcut by editing a setting on your phone. Our tutorial below will walk you through the steps to turn off that shortcut. Disable the “.” Shortcut on an iPhone in iOS 10 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

But Word has a lot of formatting settings that are adjustable, and the orientation of the document is one. So if you find that the majority of documents you create need to be in the landscape orientation, then you might prefer for that to be the default setting. Our guide below will show you how to adjust the default orientation in Word 2016 to landscape so that you can more easily create the documents that you require....

But if you have never purchased a set-top streaming device before, or are still unsure of what the Fire TV Stick needs and is capable of, then you probably have some questions about it. I did too before I bought mine (yes, I have one, and I love it), so the list below answers some of my own questions, as well as some common ones that I have encountered....

For several versions of the iOS operating system the process for deleting apps has involved tapping and holding on an app until it starts to shake. You can then tap the x on the app icon to delete it. With iOS 13 this has changed slightly to incorporate an additional menu where you select an “Arrange Apps” option, but the rest of the process remains the same. However, if you find this process to be awkward, or if there is something wrong with your iPhone that won’t let you delete an app in this manner, you may be looking for an alternate way to delete an app from your device....

Fortunately this setting occurs directly through the Firefox browser on the device, and can be completed with just a few steps. So if you are visiting a website in Firefox on your iPhone and need to be able to access a pop-up window that is currently being blocked, then our guide below will help you to find and disable the pop-up blocker in the Firefox browser. How to Disable the Pop Up Blocker in the Firefox iPhone Browser The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10....

Luckily this is a setting that Google lets you customize, so you can choose from a selection of fonts for the emails that you write in your Web browser. Our tutorial below will show you where to find and adjust this setting. How to Use a Different Default Font When Composing Emails in Gmail The steps in this article were performed in Google Chrome, but will also work in other desktop and laptop Web browsers like Chrome and Edge....

Double spacing can make documents easier to read both on the printed page, and on a computer monitor. Many schools and institutions will therefore require documents to be double-spaced instead of single-spaced. Unfortunately the default spacing in Microsoft Word 2013 is single, so you will probably need to change this setting at some point. Our guide below will show you how to double space a document in Word 2013. You will be able to do this for both a new document, or a document that you have already typed....

But there might be apps in the dock that you don’t use, and you would prefer to streamline the location so that your favorite apps are even easier to launch. Our tutorial below will show you how to customize the Apple Watch dock by removing some apps from it. How to Delete an App from the Dock on the Apple Watch The steps in this article were performed in the Watch app on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

The proliferation of video has also made it a more common element in a lot of media types, including slideshows and presentations in Powerpoint. Luckily Powerpoint provides several options for you to add video to your presentation, including a couple of options that let you embed video in Powerpoint 2013 directly from YouTube. This means that you can easily add video to your presentation without having to worry about things like linking files, or creating huge presentation files that are difficult to move or share with others....

You may find that Powerpoint 2013 is ending on a black screen. While this can provide a clear message that the presentation is over, you may have designed your slideshow to include important information on the last screen so that your audience could reference it. Fortunately you can change the Powerpoint settings so that it ends on your last slide rather than this black screen. If you’re viewing your presentation on your phone, then you may want to check out our guide on how to make your screen stay on longer so that it stops locking....

Fortunately the screen brightness on the Apple Watch is an adjustable setting, so you have the ability to make it brighter. Our steps below will how you where to find this setting on your watch so that you can make the screen brighter and easier to read. How to Make the Apple Watch Screen Brighter The steps in this article were performed on an Apple Watch using the 3.2 version of WatchOS....

If you are a Google user then you’ve likely tried out their apps like Google Docs and Google Sheets. These free applications are a great alternative to Microsoft’s paid applications, and you can perform many of the same tasks. There is also a Google Sheets iPhone app that has much of the functionality found in the desktop version of the application, and you can use it to add a picture to one of your spreadsheets....

This is fine when you have a stable Internet connection, but you might find yourself traveling, or in a situation where Internet usage isn’t possible, so you are looking for a way to make Spotify available offline. Our tutorial below will show you how to do this by downloading a Spotify playlist to your iPhone so that you can listen to it when you can’t access the Internet. How to Make Spotify Available Offline on an iPhone 7 The steps in this guide were written using an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10....

But if you find that you are often missing some of these haptic alerts because they aren’t strong enough, you might be looking for a way to fix that. Our tutorial below will show you how to increase the vibration stronger on the Apple Watch so that it is more noticeable. How to Increase Haptic Feedback Prominence on Apple Watch The steps in this article were performed on an Apple Watch 2, using the 3....