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Did you know it’s very easy to return Adobe Acrobat Reader to the ‘Classic View’? If you’re a long time user, this is the view you’re probably more used to. Simply click on the menu button on the top left hand corner of the window:- Click on ‘Disable new Acrobat Reader’ and a pop-up will…
Before Monday 8th April 2024 – You need to watch any programs you have downloaded using this application onto any PC or Mac. The application is being shut down by BBC. Even now, BBC have discontinued this application’s ability to download from their website any new programmes from their site onto your PC or Mac…
Conserve your laptop, tablet or smartphone’s battery power by keeping Bluetooth turned off whenever you’re not using it. The only time you need it on is to support a headset or to send or receive files with other nearby device users. It will also keep your device more secure from potential hackers who scan their…
1. Are you a ‘light’ user of Word, Excel or PowerPoint? Yes 2. Are you happy to store your documents in OneDrive? Yes If so, you could spend £0.00 by using Office Online with your Microsoft account, storing the documents you create on the standard OneDrive 5GB cloud storage allowance. After simply logging into www.office.com…
Find a blank area of your task manager and use your right mouse button to click and this should appear:- This Task Manager should now appear – it may appear diferently on some systems but you can find the End Task option. Click on the program which is frozen and then the icon for End…
Have you heard of PowerPoint’s Slide Sorter View? This option (3rd from the left) under the View Menu allows you to:- A. insert slides B. delete slides C. hide slides from the presentation D. …. or even create new sections for some of them! This is what it looks like:-
It allows you to add a live feed from your webcam to the slides of your presentation – visible constantly as you play the slides Below is a still image of me in my office, within a PowerPoint presentation. If we were playing this slideshow as part of a online meeting (whatever platform you use…
Did you know how easy it is to create a shortcut to your favourite program (eg Word)? 1. Simply find its icon within the Start Menu 2. ….. click with the right mouse button ! 3. From the menu which pops up, you will see options for adding an icon to the Taskbar (bottom of…
Do you sometimes find it hard to see your mouse on screen when it looks like this? Wouldn’t it be easier if it looked like this design? On almost all Windows PCs, such a change can be easily accomplished by following the few steps below:- A. Type ‘mouse pointer’ into the Search bar within the…
Do you ever find it hard to see the mouse pointer, especially on some backgrounds – like shown below:- Did you know that you can change the size of the pointer – and also the colour? Here’s my favourite size and colour:- This is a relatively small size on the range available. To get to…
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