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How to find your motherboard’s Spectre CPU fix
Finding and installing Spectre CPU firmware updates for DIY PCs is complicated and involves updating your motherboard BIOS. Here's how.How-To
How to download your Facebook data
What exactly is on your Facebook profile? You can peruse your profile online, but that doesn't tell the whole story. The easiest way to see your Facebook data is to download it.
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How to set up Android Auto in any car
Set up Android Auto in any older car with these steps: Buy a car phone mount and a Bluetooth receiver, and use a few handy apps and settings to make the experience seamless.Updated
How to delete, disable, or limit your Facebook account
If the news of Facebook's data handling has got you spooked, here's how you can limit third-party access to your account.
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Is your VPN secure? How to check for leaks
A trusted virtual private network is a great tool for security and privacy, but if it's not configured correctly it may not be so private.
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Create Excel reports from multiple spreadsheets with Multi-file Pivot Tables
The Pivot Table is a tool that Excel uses to create custom reports from your spreadsheet databases. All you need is one common, unique field. Here's how to set it up with multiple spreadsheets.
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Excel filters: How to use number, text and date filters to extract only the data you need
Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.
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How to test how much Spectre and Meltdown hurt your PC’s performance
Six steps to find out how much performance you lost from the Meltdown and Spectre patches
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How to create custom Input & Error Messages In Excel
In Excel, custom input or error messages explain the rules for each field to prevent data-entry errors. Here's how to set them up in a spreadsheet.
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6 Google Translate tips you need to start using
Google Translate is so overflowing with features, you might not even realize everything it can do.
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How to customize Excel Conditional Formatting
Excel's conditional formatting lets you customize how your data displays, from changing colors and shading to adding icons and more. Here's how it works.
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Photoshop Text Effects: Adding Styles to fonts
Photoshop Text Effects, also called Styles, are an essential skill for adding splashes of color, texture and more to fonts on a page. Here's how to do it.
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Eye tracking within Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update is an assistive technology with potential
Microsoft's Fall Creators Update of Windows 10 includes a beta of an eye-tracking technology, called Eye Control. What could be a solid eye tracker falls short due to an apparent bug.
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Excel Pivot Tables: How to create better reports
The pivot table is a collection of tools that Excel uses to create reports from complex, multi-file spreadsheet data. Here's how to generate reports for single tables
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Excel functions: 7 ways to use Text functions to manage data
How to replace words; extract first and last words, matched or a specific words in a string of text
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How to use Word to create holiday cards and other projects
Use Microsoft Word to design your holiday cards or other graphic projects for your celebrations. We'll show you how Shapes, Fonts, and
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Excel macros: Essential rules, tips and tricks
An Excel macro is a sequence of commands (or directives) that you record to perform a series of tasks. We'll show you how to create custom macros for your spreadsheet.
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Excel databases: Creating relational tables
Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links to subordinates called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables.
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Excel charts: Mastering pie charts, bar charts and more
Excel's chart features can turn your spreadsheets into compelling visual ideas. This guide covers the basics and the best tips.
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How Windows 10 dictation works
Within the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft makes dictation as easy as tapping a key. Why use your keyboard when you can write with your voice?
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Windows 10 digital ink: All the improvements within the Fall Creators Update
You can use your Windows tablet's digital pen to ink notes into Windows 10, saving them as editable digital text. And with the Fall Creators Update, it's even easier to do so.
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How to type emoji on your PC using Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
Soon in Windows 10, adding an emoji smiley-face will be almost as easy as a keyboard shortcut. Here's how to it will work in the Fall Creators Update.
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How to download the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update right now
The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is rolling out in waves. Here's how to download it immediately.
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How to build the best free PC security software suite
By combining the best free PC security software available, you can fortify your PC against all manner of attacks.
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Excel Workbooks: Three-dimensional workbooks and other number-crunching powers
We'll dive deep into Excel workbooks in this guide, starting with the basics and diving straight into powerful three-dimensional workbooks.
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Excel Spreadsheets: Navigation, shortcut keys, data sort and filter, formulas and functions
Excel spreadsheets do so much. This guide starts with the basics and will add more Excel tips over time, so you'll always be in the know.
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Waze app how-to: Tips and tricks for ditching Google Maps
It's time to master all of Waze's traffic navigation features. We give you eight tips for using the Google-owned Waze app for a richer travel experience.
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How to uninstall Windows 10 and go back to Windows 7 or 8
Did you upgrade to Windows 10 and regret it? You can go back to your older operating system in a few clicks.Answer Line
How to get out of Windows Safe Mode
Safe Mode is a useful tool, but it's meant to be temporary. If your Windows computer is stuck in Safe Mode, these instructions will help get it out.
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Google Maps: Find Parking and other features you need to start using
Don't take Google Maps for granted. It gets even better once you dig into its settings and start customizing it.
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5 awesome YouTube app features you probably aren’t using
Spend more time watching, less time wandering blindly through the settings.
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How to change your email address without losing your friends
Change your email address with minimal fuss by following these steps, from phasing out your old account to protecting your new one.
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How to use Miracast to mirror your device’s screen wirelessly on your TV—even 4K
Everything you need to know to figure out device support between newer and older devices, and setting it up with Windows or Android devices.
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How to boot into Windows 10’s Safe Mode
Sometimes you have to boot your computer into Windows' stripped-down Safe Mode. But with Windows 10, that gets complicated.Smart Mobile Tricks
4 ways to save a web page on an iPhone or Android phone
Instead of bookmarking a URL that might disappear tomorrow, try saving a web page—permanently—to your Android or iOS handset.
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How to get started with Linux: A beginner’s guide
Trying Linux is easy—you can even install it on a USB drive or disc to try it out before committing. Enter the world of open-source here.Updated
How to stream media from your PC to your HDTV over Wi-Fi
Do you want to stream TV and movies from your PC to your TV? Here's our PC-to-TV media streaming guide.
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How to reclaim your privacy in Windows 10, piece by piece
Windows 10 has deep cloud hooks and shares a lot of data with Microsoft in order to create a smart, seamless experience across devices. If you prefer to keep some privacy, here's how to disable all of it.
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Word 2016: A guide to its desktop publishing tools
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When Windows 10 takes up too much disk space, try this
When your Windows 10 installation is too big to run comfortably on your drive, shrink it down with Compact.exe, a built-in tool designed expressly for this purpose. Read on for this and other workarounds.
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Killing Cortana: How to disable Windows 10’s info-hungry digital assistant
Cortana, Microsoft's supremely useful digital assistant, is a highlight Windows 10 feature—but not everyone will appreciate the amount of personal information she demands to be helpful. Here's how to disable Cortana in Windows 10.Answer Line
How to create a Windows 10 recovery USB drive
The ability to make a recovery disk or USB drive is one of the most useful troubleshooting tools included with Windows 10.
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Photoshop fonts: Creating swashes, swirls and flourishes
Photoshop lets you make any font fancier with swashes, swirls and other flourishes. Here's how.World Beyond Windows
How to use Evernote in Linux
Evernote still doesn't officially support Linux, but that doesn't mean you can't get your note-taking on.
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Photoshop fonts: Using Text Type and Text Editing to transform fonts
Adobe Photoshop's Text Type and Text Editing tools let you manipulate standard fonts for greater visual impact.
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Windows 10: How to customize multi-finger touchpad gestures
Take advantage of the Creators Update precision touchpad enhancements and get more done in less time.
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How to use Microsoft Excel’s Conditional Formatting
Excel's conditional formatting lets you formats cells based on the value of those cells or their formulas. Learn the basics of this amazing feature.
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How to launch Chrome faster with Native Lazy Tabs
If you have Chrome set to start with all your previous tabs, the browser's startup time can be slow. The extension Native Lazy Tabs can fix that.
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How to set up a wireless router
These tips will make your wireless router installation and configuration even easier.
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