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When you create surveys or forms with Microsoft Word, check boxes make the options easier to read and answer. We’re covering two good options for doing just that. The first is ideal for documents that you want people to fill out digitally within the Word document itself. The second option is easier if you’re planning to print documents like to-do lists. Option 1: Use Word’s Developer Tools to Add the Check Box Option for Forms In order to create fillable forms that include checkboxes, you first need to enable the “Developer” tab on the Ribbon....

It can be tough to organize a lengthy spreadsheet to make your data easier to read. Microsoft Excel offers a useful grouping feature to summarize data using an automatic outline. Here’s how it’s done. What You Need to Create an Outline in Excel In Microsoft Excel, you can create an outline of rows, columns, or both. To explain the basics of this topic, we’ll create an outline of rows. You can apply the same principles if you want an outline for columns....

If you take advantage of Microsoft Excel’s charts for helpful visual displays of your data, check out the People Graph option to create a simple depiction of the number of people or items you have logged in your spreadsheet. You can display things like the number of visitors to your website, downloads of your app, sign-ups for your event, calls to your support center, and much more. Add the People Graph Add-In to Excel People Graph is an add-in developed by Microsoft, and there’s already a button for it in your Excel ribbon....

If you’d like to share an Instagram photo or video outside the platform, you’ll have to get that item’s shareable link. We’ll show you how to get these links from your Instagram account, on either desktop or mobile. Please note that you can’t get links to photos or videos that are in a private Instagram account. For these accounts, Instagram doesn’t show the option to get a link. RELATED: How to Make Your Instagram Account Private...

The 2021 MacBook Pro has a notch, and some apps may encounter a problem where menu bar items are hidden behind the void. Fortunately, Apple included a toggle for ensuring menu bar items appear below the notch instead. What’s the Issue Here? Apple has moved the macOS menu bar on new MacBook Pro models into the bezel, but they’ve cut out a chunk of the screen for the FaceTime HD camera, TrueTone sensor, and ambient light sensor....

By default, when you search for something on Google, the site displays 10 results per page. If you’d like to see more results, you can increase the results count from a settings option on Google. We’ll show you how. Increase the Number of Results per Page on Google Search To view more search results without having to click the next page number on Google Search on your Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer, first, open a web browser on your computer and access the Google site....

If you’ve ever had a window somehow get moved off your screen, you know it can be frustrating not being able to drag it back. We’ve got a couple of ways you can move these rogue windows back to your desktop, though. This little problem can happen for a couple of different reasons. The most common is if you have a secondary monitor that is sometimes hooked up and sometimes not — something that’s pretty common for laptop users....

What Devices Work with Audio Sharing As mentioned, the new Audio Sharing feature supports first- and second-generation AirPods and PowerBeats Pro wireless headphones. This list should expand as more devices are released with Apple’s W1 or H1 chip. Currently, Audio Sharing is only available on the following devices: iPhone 8 (and newer) iPad Pro (first-generation and newer) iPad Air (third-generation and newer) iPad mini (fifth-generation and newer) iPod touch (seventh-generation and newer)...

Microsoft is always making little tweaks to Windows 10. Some of these changes have been more successful than others. The taskbar now has a Weather and News widget, but you may not like that. Thankfully, it’s easy to disable it. The “News and Interests” widget started rolling out to Windows 10 PCs in June 2020. It’s pretty hard to miss when it appears. You’ll see a weather forecast in a small box next to the clock and notification area....

RELATED: Search Engine Keeps Changing to Yahoo? Here’s What to Do How Search Engines Are Added and Removed From Chrome In Chrome’s desktop version, you can add as well as remove any search engine you want. In Chrome on mobile, though, you can’t add or remove search engines. You can only switch to a different search engine if you do not prefer the current one. Therefore, in this guide, you will learn how to remove Yahoo Search from Chrome on the desktop....

Whether you’re worried about your own safety or the safety of your loved ones, the SOS Messages feature can be a literal lifesaver. It’s a good idea to make sure everyone in your life who has a Samsung Galaxy device has the feature enabled. RELATED: How to Enable Emergency SOS Services on Your iPhone How to Set Up SOS Messages First, swipe down once from the top of your Samsung Galaxy handset’s screen and tap the gear icon....

Fall is on its way, which can mean only one thing: football is back! Wouldn’t it be nice if you could watch whatever NFL game you want without being subject to the whims of your local cable company, though? How NFL Streaming Works in the US (and Why It Sucks) Obviously, if you have access to a cable subscriber’s username and password, you can stream the games from WatchESPN, Fox Sports Go, and NBC Sports....

Google Docs defaults to a light theme in most cases, but there’s an easy way to enable dark mode on Android, iPhone, iPad, and even in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge while writing on your computer. We’ll show you how. While we’ll be focusing on Google Docs, you should know that the steps are exactly the same for Google Sheets and Google Slides. Enable Dark Mode in Google Docs on Google Chrome Google Chrome on desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux) allows you to enable dark mode in Google Docs (but do remember that this method forces dark mode on all websites)....

How Tags Work in Apple Notes Apple Notes tags take the form of hashtags like #work or #travel. These tags can be placed anywhere in the note body, including the note title. When you type a note followed by a space it will change color and you can tap or click on it to find other notes with the same tag. Due to the reliance on the hashtag format, notes must be one continuous word....

TikTok is a social media platform on which you can create, remix, augment, or share short videos. Because it’s so popular with teens, parents obviously want to protect their kids from inappropriate content. Fortunately, TikTok has parental controls that can help you with that. Before you begin, you’re going to need access to your child’s TikTok account on his or her iPhone or Android device. Make sure you also download the latest version of the TikTok app for Android or Apple....

Reports originated from Hacker News, where a user said, “LastPass blocked a login attempt from Brazil (it wasn’t me). According to an email I received from LastPass, this login was using the LastPass account’s master password. The email doesn’t look like it’s a phishing attempt.” We quickly worked to investigate this activity and at this time we have no indication that any LastPass accounts were compromised by an unauthorized third-party as a result of this credential stuffing, nor have we found any indication that user’s LastPass credentials were harvested by malware, rogue browser extensions or phishing campaigns....

Why Bother With Emulation? The Mac is not seen traditionally as a gaming platform. Despite efforts to turn that around with support for Apple Arcade, iPhone and iPad apps on the desktop, and a handful of third-party publishers releasing games on Steam and the Mac App Store, the Mac still misses out on the vast majority of games. With the arrival of Apple Silicon in 2020, the Mac hopped from the 64-bit x86 architecture used by Intel chips to an ARM-based in-house solution in the form of the M1....

RELATED: How to Buy an SD Card: Speed Classes, Sizes, and Capacities Explained Samsung announced a couple of new cards in the PRO Plus and EVO Plus microSD and SD Cards. They feature write speeds up to 120 MB/s and read speeds of up to 160 MB/s. These speeds only apply to the 128GB and larger versions of the cards, as the smaller version of the PRO Plus SD cards are a bit slower....

Why Is the PS5 Hotter? Play Video When Sony tweaked the design of the PS5, the first change everyone noticed was that the console is slightly lighter than the launch version. Obviously, that weight had to come from somewhere. YouTuber Austin Evans ripped the new PS5 apart to figure out where the weight came from, and it turns out Sony made the aluminum and copper heatsink smaller than the previous iteration of the PlayStation 5....