In Word, it can be difficult to figure out how to adjust the transparency or opacity of an image. As you can notice, there’s no adjust transparency option under the “Picture Tools” tab. The closest thing that you can do is to chan...
Word has a feature that allows you to add a watermark to a document. By default, you can select a watermark from the gallery. Most of these watermarks are based on text but what if you want to use your own watermark? To be more sp...
Opera Mail was once a part of the Opera browser, but has been removed from it. Now Opera Mail is available as a desktop email client that you can add to Windows, Linux or Mac OS. With Opera Mail you can open your email from Gmail,...
The Windows 7 system tray clock includes customizable dates. However, Windows Vista and XP don’t include any options to add dates to the system tray clock. To add a Windows 7 system tray clock to Vista/XP with dates on it, c...
If you need to add random numbers to an Excel spreadsheet you can always enter them manually. However, it might take a while to enter lots of random numbers. Instead, add random numbers with Excel’s RAND and RANDBETWEEN func...
CEILING is an Excel 2010/13 function that you can add to spreadsheets to find ceiling values. The function shows you the ceiling value of a number based on a specific multiple. For example, the ceiling value of five based on a mul...
Windows Aero are those snazzy Windows Vista/7 themes that have glass transparency, reflection and blur effects. Windows does have a few options you can select to adjust the Windows Aero transparency, hue and saturation. However, D...
While getting rid of the old stuff, Windows 10 is also adding many more new features. One of the latest features found in Windows 10 build 10041 is the ability to print anything to a PDF file. That means you no longer need to inst...
There are various ways you can add extra colors to Word 2010 documents. Perhaps the best way to add a little more eye candy to your documents is to alter the background colors. This is how you can alter the background colors in Wo...
Images in Word documents can slow down page scrolling due to rendering of each picture. However, you can speed up page scrolling in documents with placeholders. Placeholders effectively remove images from a document leaving only t...
Finally, the long wait was over. Last week, Microsoft released a new build for Windows 10 Technical Preview with many interesting new features. This release bumped Windows 10 TP to build 1041 from build 9926. In the new build, one...
This post told you how to add a second Start Menu to the Windows desktop. However, FastKeys does not support portable software. With SyMenu you can set up a Start Menu for USB sticks that include shortcuts to portable software. Ad...
CHOOSE is another function you can add to Excel 2010/13 spreadsheets. It can be a handy function for returning values from a list. It takes an index number that searches for corresponding values in a string or list. For example, e...
Excel 2010/13 has a range of functions you can add to spreadsheets. Some can provide you with details about cell details. For instance, you can add the ISODD function to a spreadsheet cell to find out if a referenced cell includes...
SUBTOTAL is 11 Excel functions wrapped into one. It supports a total of 11 functions. So SUBTOTAL provides you with a list of alternative functions that you can add to the spreadsheet by entering the function number. First, enter ...
