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Guide to Organizing Outlook Messages If you receive a lot of email messages and need a way to organize them, group your email messages into categories in Outlook. Outlook provides a starting list of categories. Rename these categories to fit your needs and add more categories if you want. Then, when you want to find messages in a category, filter your message list to show categorized emails. There are multiple ways to clean up and streamline your Outlook inbox:...

How to Pair a Bluetooth Headset to an iPhone Before you begin, make sure both your smartphone and Bluetooth headset have plenty of battery left. Make Calls Using Your Bluetooth Headset To make a call using your Bluetooth headset, dial the number as you normally would. If you use a headset that accepts voice commands, you may be able to dial by voice. After you enter the number to call, your iPhone presents you with a list of options....

How to Set a Document-Open Password in Excel To configure your workbook so no one can open it without a password, apply a document-open password in the Info area of Excel. How to Add a Modify Password to Your Excel Workbook Another approach to protecting an Excel worksheet is to apply a password to prevent people from making changes to it after it is open. It becomes read-only for anyone without the password....

How Do I Keep My Mac Screen On All the Time? Your Mac has a number of energy-saving features, which includes sleep mode. This mode is designed to activate whenever your Mac hasn’t been in use for a while. The screen turns off, and the Mac enters a low power mode until you wake it up. If you want your Mac screen to stay on all the time, then you need to fully disable sleep mode....

How to Rate an App in the Apple App Store To rate an app in the App Store, follow these steps: How to Rate an App in the App Itself In some apps, you also have the chance to leave a review from within the app itself. Not every app has this feature—the developer needs to add it—but some do. In that case, a pop-up window will occasionally appear asking you to leave a review....

How to Rebuild the BCD in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, or Vista Rebuilding the BCD in Windows should only take around 15 minutes: If rebuilding the BCD didn’t solve the problem you were having, continue troubleshooting to fix freezing and other issues that may prevent Windows from booting normally. On Windows 7 or Windows Vista: Start System Recovery Options. The bootrec command will search for Windows installations not included in the BCD and then ask you if you’d like to add one or more to it....

Recover a Forgotten Gmail Password Follow these steps to reset your forgotten Gmail password and recover access to your account. Questions Google Will Ask During Gmail Account Recovery The questions Gmail asks to help verify your Gmail account may include the following, not necessarily in this order. For each question, enter your answer and select Next. Or, if you don’t know the answer to a question, select Try another way....

How Do You Reassign Keys on a Mac Keyboard? Your Mac’s System Preferences app contains various ways to add shortcuts and other features to your keyboard. What Kinds of Shortcuts Can I Create? The Shortcuts tab includes several categories of commands you can set. Here’s a quick rundown of each of their contents. Launchpad & Dock: Call up the Mac Dock and Launchpad app. Mission Control: Perform tasks like opening macOS’ Notification Center, toggle Do Not Disturb, and show the Desktop....

How to Put Your Bluetooth Speaker Into Pairing Mode You don’t need to reset a Bluetooth speaker fully in some cases, but instead, you want to force it into a pairing mode. Before you go to full-on factory reset mode, we recommend trying these steps first. How to Factory Reset a Bluetooth Speaker Almost all Bluetooth speakers feature a means to fully factory reset them, erasing all relationships with Bluetooth devices and letting you “start from scratch” just as if you just pulled the speaker out of the box....

How to Perform a Hard Reset (Factory Reset) on a Nintendo Switch If your console won’t start up or come out of sleep mode, perform a hard reset before anything else. If you’re selling it or giving it away, factory reset it first. Here’s how. How to Reset the Nintendo Switch’s Cache Like any internet-connected device, the Nintendo Switch has a cache that stores your IDs, passwords, and browsing history. Sometimes, you might want to delete this information so that no one else can check it or simply due to security concerns....

How Do I Factory Reset My Galaxy Watch If your Samsung Galaxy Watch isn’t acting right or if you’re planning to sell it, a factory data reset might be in order. If it is, there are several ways you can reset your watch, including using the physical buttons on the device, using the software options on the Watch, or using the Samsung Galaxy Wearable app. Reset Your Galaxy Watch Using the Physical Buttons The easiest way to reset your Samsung Galaxy Watch is to use the physical buttons on the device....

Is There a Way to Save Text Messages on iPhone? Strictly speaking, there is no way to select a message or group of messages and then select save on the iPhone. You can, however, save text messages, you just have to use a workaround. One way to save messages on iPhone is to create screenshots of them. This method is useful if you want to save the timestamps and layout of the messages....

How to Download Web Pages in IE 11 Save a copy of a web page to your hard drive for offline reading in Internet Explorer 11. Depending on the structure of the web page, you may be able to view the saved source code, images, and other multimedia files without an internet connection. To download web pages in Internet Explorer 11, open a page and follow these steps: Web Archive, single file (....

This guide will walk you through the steps for one of the best methods to screen share Netflix with friends and family while also including some additional information on some alternative methods. How Can I Screen Share Netflix? There are a number of apps and extensions for screen sharing Netflix, though most of them are restricted to a single type of device that can limit who can participate. Rave fixes this problem by providing completely free stand-alone apps for Macs and Windows computers in addition to iOS and Android smart devices....

How to Access Your Top Artists on Spotify While you can’t see specific artists you’ve listened to most often on Spotify itself, you can view your top music and playlists on the Spotify website. Spotify draws the Artist recommendations from the top music you like in the app. See Top Artists With Stats for Spotify If you use the website or mobile app Stats for Spotify, you can quickly see the top artists you listen to in just a few simple steps....

How to Block Someone so They Can’t Leave Voicemail When you block a number on your Android phone, your phone won’t ring when the person calls you, but the caller can still leave voicemails. The only way to prevent callers from leaving voicemails is to use an app that labels blocked numbers as spam. Your options depend on your phone carrier. Block Voicemails Through Your Service Provider Major cellphone carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon allow you to block numbers through their services....

Alexa works with several calendar types, including Apple iCloud, Google Gmail, Microsoft 365, and Outlook.com. You can also sync a corporate Microsoft Exchange calendar with it if your company has an Alexa for Business account. How to Sync Your iCloud Calendar With Alexa Before connecting your iCloud calendar with Alexa, you need to enable two-factor authentication on your Apple account and create an app-specific password. Now that two-factor authentication is active and your app-specific password is in place, it’s time to sync your iCloud calendar....

How to Take Screenshots With the Xbox Series X/S Share Button The new share button included on the Xbox Series X/S controller makes it easier to snap screenshots than ever before, which is key when you’re in the heat of the moment and can’t afford to take attention away from the game while you muddle through menus. Here’s how to snap a screenshot on your Xbox Series X or S with the share button:...

How to Take a Screenshot on the iPhone X series, iPhone 11, and iPhone 12 To take a screenshot on the iPhone or iPod Touch, press a combination of buttons at the same time. The buttons depend on the model phone. For many years, iPhone screenshots involved using the Home button, but Apple removed that button from the ​iPhone X and later models like the iPhone 12. To take screenshots without the Home button:...

If you have Word 2003, here’s how to enable Track Changes: Now when you start tracking, you’ll see change lines in the left margin of all your pages as you make changes. When you decide to accept or reject a change in the document that you or someone else has made, here’s how to mark the change as accepted or rejected in Word 2007 and later: If you click Accept, the change line disappears and the text stays....