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The iPhone has a feature that is well-suited for managing these website blocks called Restrictions. Our tutorial below will show you how to enable Restrictions on an iPhone so that you can block a website on the device. The blocked website is locked behind a restrictions passcode, meaning only you will be able to unblock the website by entering that passcode and changing the setting. Website Blocking on an iPhone 7 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 11....

With slideshows like the ones you create in Powerpoint 2013, the visual appearance of information is incredibly important. People that are viewing your presentation are just as likely to evaluate it based on its appearance as they are based on its content, so it’s helpful to make a presentation look as nice as possible. One element that you might like to affect in this regard is the centering of the text box on a slide....

But the 3D touch feature can get in the way of certain actions, such as the ability to move or delete apps. You may have considered turning off 3D Touch entirely, but it might be worthwhile to follow the steps in the guide below to change the sensitivity of 3D Touch instead and see if that improves your experience. Adjust the Pressure Required for 3D Touch on an iPhone The steps in this guide were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

But while this tab feature is helpful, it can become difficult to navigate when there are a lot of pages open, and it can even cause the browser to perform a little more slowly. Fortunately you can close all of your tabs at once in Edge on an iPhone by following the steps in our tutorial below. How to Close All Tabs at Once on an iPhone in the Edge App The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11....

One effective way to organize the pictures on your iPhone is by creating albums and putting pictures from an event or location into that album. Our tutorial below will show you how to create a new album on your iPhone and add some of your existing pictures to it. How to Create a New Photo Album in iOS 11 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 11....

Some Web hosts will install certain plugins along with your site that you may not want, and you may need to install multiple similar plugins to get the exact functionality that you want. Both of these situations can lead to a lot of unused plugins existing on your site. Extra plugins can slow down your site, and can even be a security risk. Therefore it’s a good idea to delete plugins that you aren’t using anymore....

If you have ever tried to make your fractions or symbols look better on your slides, then you may have looked into ways to add those symbols in a way that makes them look better. Some of these characters or strings, however, are going to convert automatically when you type them into one of your slides. While this may the desired outcome in certain situations, it can also be unwanted....

There are several ways to combat large file sizes in Powerpoint, but the focus of this article will be on the editing data that is stored within pictures that you have resized and edited within Powerpoint itself. This editing data lets you restore the pictures to their previous states, but it also increases your file size. Our tutorial below will show you how to get Powerpoint to discard that editing data and reduce the size of your file....

Our guide below will show you where to find the outgoing SMTP port setting for your email address in Outlook 2013. You will then be able to change that port number to something else if you are attempting to troubleshoot an issue that you are having. Where to Find the Outlook 2013 SMTP Port Number The steps in this article will show you how to find the SMTP port number of an email account that is currently set up in Outlook 2013....

One way to fix this is to open the image in an image editing application like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Paint. But this option can be tedious, as it relies on additional application. Luckily many word processing applications, like Microsoft Word and Google Docs, have editing tools within their respective applications which you can use to adjust the picture. Our guide below will show you how to flip an image in Google Docs if the image that is currently in the document needs to face a different direction....

But that horizontal scroll bar can get in the way if your workbook has a lot of tabs, so you might be looking for a way to hide the scroll bar so that you can see more of your worksheets at once. Our guide below will show you where to find a setting in Excel 2013 that lets you hide the horizontal scroll bar. How to Stop Showing the Horizontal Scroll Bar in Excel 2013 The steps in this article were performed in Microsoft Excel 2013....

It’s always frustrating when you’re typing a large passage in a document without looking at the screen, only to finally look up and see that you accidentally had the Caps Lock key pressed down. This typically leads you to retype the passage in the correct case, then delete the original. This process is tedious and frustrating, and it’s probably something that you wish you could avoid. But it’s equally frustrating to need the text in uppercase and type it in lowercase....

But if you’ve found the Page Setup menu in Google Slides, you may have discovered that there isn’t a default option that lets you switch to the portrait orientation. Fortunately you do have the option to create vertical slides, but you need to use a custom setting. Our guide below will show you how to make Google Slides vertical. How to Switch to Vertical Slides in Google Slides The steps in this article were performed in the desktop version of the Google Chrome Web browser, but will also work in other desktop Web browsers like Firefox or Safari....

While you may have tried simply copying an address and then launching Internet Explorer separately, there is actually a way for you to learn how to open Internet Explorer from Edge. Our tutorial below will show you how to accomplish this if you have the page open in the newer Microsoft browser already. How to Open Internet Explorer from Edge Our guide continues below with additional information on how to open Internet Explorer from Edge, including pictures of these steps....

Fortunately Microsoft Outlook 2013 offers you a setting that can automatically open replies and forwards in a new window. This will allow you to use the Message navigational ribbon instead, which provides access to options such as inserting a picture in your message. Pop Out Replies and Forwards in Outlook 2013 The steps in this guide will assume that currently, when you try to reply to or forward a message in your Inbox, that the message opens in the Reading Pane at the right side of the window....

Presentation software like Google Slides is often a good choice when you need to design a document that you are going to print. The ability to freely position pictures and text boxes on a slide makes it very versatile when designing your document’s layout. But long presentations can use a lot of paper, which may be unwanted during the design phase, when you simply want to print out a copy of the presentation to make notes, or discuss it with your collaborators....

Presentations like those you create in Google Slides or Microsoft Powerpoint typically benefit from visual aids. Whether this is a chart, picture, or some other way to make your data more visually appealing, it can help to keep your audience entertained. One other way that you can accomplish this is to add a video to one of the slides in your presentation. Fortunately, Google Slides makes it easy for you to add a video to one of your presentations, such as a video that you found or uploaded to YouTube....

Fortunately removing gridlines in Word 2013 only requires you to adjust a single setting, which we will point you to the in the steps below. How to Hide Gridlines in Word 2013 The steps below will show you how to remove gridlines that are visible in your document. Note that gridline visibility can carry over when you close Word. So the gridlines will either be visible or hidden the next time you open Word based on the setting that we will be modifying below....

Fortunately this is possible by changing the current view that is being used in your spreadsheet. Our guide below will show you how to select the view that allows you to set your column width in inches, then we will show you how to change a column width. If you don’t want to manually set your column width, then our tutorial on how to make all columns the same width in Google Sheets can help you out....

But one complaint that you might have is that it’s not always obvious whether you are tying in capital or lowercase. Fortunately this is a setting that you can control, and it’s possible to configure your iPhone’s keyboard so that it shows the letters in the appropriate case. Our tutorial below will show you where to find this setting so that you can start seeing lowercase keys on your iPhone keyboard....