If you’ve got a ton of data to sift through, it can be very useful to know how to search in Excel. The good news is that by using the tools in Excel, you can quickly and easily find specific words or values. You can even replace a specific word or value with another. If your word or value occurs multiple times throughout your spreadsheet, you can every instance with just a single click....

If you have files containing sensitive information, you can delete these files using a more secure method so they can’t be recovered and viewed. We’ll show you a few ways to do this in Linux. If you want to know how to securely delete files in Linux, follow our guide below. Should You Use Secure Deletion Tools on an SSD? The tools we discuss here are for use only with regular spinning hard drives (HDDs)....

While Discord has broadened its appeal, it still remains one of the best platforms for gamers. You can use Discord to send your gaming videos up to 8MB or smaller in size, making it a perfect sharing platform for a quick highlights reel. Of course, it doesn’t have to be gaming videos you send—you can share whatever you like! If you want to send videos on Discord, here’s what you’ll need to do....

Put simply—it’s time to speed things up a little. If you recorded a slow-mo video on your iPhone, you can change the playback speed to do just that. Even if it’s just a standard video, you can use the iMovie app on your iPhone to speed up your video. It’s time to show you how to speed up a video on your iPhone—let’s get started. How to Speed up a Video on iPhone using iMovie To speed up any video you have on your iPhone, you can use the iMovie app that comes preinstalled on your iPhone....

However, this is not a good idea. For example, outlook could automatically open an email in the Reading Pane that contains something that can harm your computer. By default, you should view the sender and the subject line without opening the email. You can set each folder in your email account in Outlook to not show the Reading Pane. However, if you have a lot of folders, that can be time-consuming....

That doesn’t mean that app updates always work properly. From time to time, you may need to force through an Android app update manually. It’s a good idea to do this if an app is out of date, isn’t working properly, or you just want to access the latest features. If you don’t think your apps are getting updates or it seems to be missing features, you can manually update apps on Android using our step-by-step instructions below....

Hey Spotify, as the Spotify voice command is known, doesn’t have as many features as other voice assistants. What it does offer, however, is some basic voice controls over your Spotify app. You can ask it to play an individual song, band, artist, podcast, or playlist. If you haven’t used it before, we’ll take a look at how to enable it and use Spotify voice commands. How to Enable Spotify Voice Controls To use the Spotify voice assistant, you’ll need to enable it first on your mobile device....

If you’re a responsible PC user, you probably don’t need a third-party solution like McAfee. There’s no reason to pay for a utility suite when you have one built-in for free. This is only true, however, if you’re using Windows Security properly. Here’s how to use Windows Security on Windows 11 for maximum protection. Check for New Windows Updates First, we’ll start with making sure you have the latest Windows Updates on your PC....

Windows 10 Redstone 5 Preview Build Improved Local Experience is a new section in Settings that allows you to override default region format settings for Calendar, First day of the week, Dates, Currency, and Time. In addition, Local Experience Packs are available for Microsoft Store apps to improve language quality displays. You can access it by heading to Settings > Time & Language > Region. There are also improved privacy settings for your device’s microphone, Windows Mixed Reality improvements, and more....

What Is It? Imagine Badland crossed with Fruit Ninja. The hero of this story is a bug (who looks like a Bad Robot) trying to protect the forest from monsters who somehow emerge from factory pipes. To advance in the game, you need to slice up the monsters and find the portal to the next level. The parallax forest background set the perfect scenery for this game. You’re encouraged to preserve the forest because it’s gorgeous....

Valve’s popular video game distribution platform, Steam, is looking to soon expand into selling additional software. According to Valve’s Mark Richardson: “The 40 million gamers frequenting Steam are interested in more than playing games.” They have told us they would like to have more of their software on Steam, so this expansion is in response to those customer requests.” This news doesn’t come as a surprise; after all, it seems like everyone is jumping in and following Apple’s App Store example....

Some of that has to do with privacy and fear. A common comment I hear is, “who knows what the service will do with the photos? I don’t want to see them on a billboard somewhere.” This is a slightly valid concern as there have been a few documented cases of this. But nothing that should keep you up at night wondering if you are modeling tank tops without your knowledge....

Most people just tolerate this annoyance, since eventually, the Start menu will begin working again. However, you don’t have to tolerate it any longer. Use the following tips to get the Start menu working quickly for you again. Windows 10 Start Menu Not Opening: Why It Happens There are two main behaviors that can start happening with the Windows 10 Start menu. It either won’t open at all, or it takes more than 5 seconds to finally open....

Why buy a floundering former search giant? The answer is: Ma has a mobile OS, now the second rev of a Tegra2 based smartphone and, reportedly, a cloud-based tablet due in November. The goal, and we’re not taking a huge leap here, would be to transform Yahoo into a global company, ala Google, that does hardware, software, operating systems, e-commerce, you name it. I suppose a social network is next....

This means that lurking somewhere within your spreadsheet, there’s something wrong with one of your formulas. If your spreadsheet is large, trying to find it may not be a quick task. Thankfully, there are some fixes you can try to find the root of the problem and ensure that the ‘Excel found a problem with one or more formula references’ error no longer appears. Use the Error Checking Tool One of the quickest ways to find errors with your Excel spreadsheet is to use the Error Checking tool....

Starring Gmail Contacts Why would you star any contacts? Well, because it makes it much easier to find them, especially if we’re talking about people you’re communicating with daily. The cool part is that wherever you star a contact, be it in the desktop version of Gmail or the contacts manager in Android; the “starred” status will be synced. To star a contact in Gmail, go to your Contacts – click the arrow next to the Gmail link on the left side of the screen and click Contacts....

Inserting error bars in Google Sheets is fairly simple to do and you can customize them to suit your needs. Here’s how to add them to your spreadsheet. How to Insert a Column Chart in Google Sheets Before you can add error bars to a chart, you’ll need to add your chart in the first place. Adding a column chart takes just a few clicks. To insert a column chart in Google Sheets:...

But if you download just a few quality game titles, you’ll quickly find that the paltry 8 GB of internal storage is not enough. But now, the previously useless USB port on the back of the box can be used to expand its storage space. Add External Storage to Fire TV Plug a flash drive into the USB port on the back of your Fire TV. For this article, I’m using a USB 3....

However, don’t forget some of its more basic (and still powerful) features. If you’re trying to create a document, you’re going to want to know how to center text in Word. If you’re unsure, here are all of the methods for centering text in a Microsoft Word document. How to Center Text in Word Using the Align Tool The quickest way to center text in a Word document is to use the align tool....

You may want to increase your mouse sensitivity if you need to make smaller, more careful adjustments to your cursor. For example, if you’re gaming, you may want a quick mouse cursor to quickly change targets. Likewise, if a mouse is too slow, you can adjust the sensitivity to improve the situation. If you’re having a problem with a slow (or fast) mouse, you can change the mouse sensitivity on a Windows PC using the steps below....