How to Create Custom Text Expansions in Microsoft Word

It’s a sad reality that in today’s world, most jobs require us to spend a significant amount of time working on a computer. It’s bad for your health, it’s bad for your posture, and it’s mind-numbingly repetitive. How many times do you have to type the same address, phrase, or paragraph every day? Wouldn’t it be
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How to Manage Custom Zoom Levels in Chrome

Every browser has a zoom feature that lets you decrease or increase the size of a webpage. Apply it in the right places and it can make your browsing life much easier. It can improve readability for all of us and also make the web senior-friendly. Chrome also has the obligatory Zoom feature. But did
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Spotify Can Now Create Custom Playlists for You

A Spotify engineer has invited users to try a new tool that lets you create custom playlists. Called Nelson, this Glitch project lets you choose various genres and change various parameters to create the playlist of your dreams. And while it isn’t perfect, it sure is a lot of fun. Spotify is famous for its
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Use Custom Views in Excel to Save Specific Worksheet Layouts

Excel’s Custom View setting makes it easy to view specific information on a crowded spreadsheet or to create different layouts for your data. You can use it to create custom headers or footers, create a print-friendly version of your spreadsheet, or you can create a view in which freeze panes or split rows are activated. The first
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Let Your Photos Shine With a Custom Background: Here’s How Using GIMP

It’s easy to change the background of a photo in Photoshop, but you don’t have to pay for expensive software if you don’t want to. GIMP is the best free image editing software around, and it’s almost as powerful as its commercial counterpart. Changing the background in GIMP is simple, and there are several different
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Quickly Access Apps and Shortcuts With Custom Gestures for Android

Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn off your phone’s screen just by swiping down from the top of your display? Or access your recent apps by swiping in from the right? These shortcuts would allow you to use your Android smartphone or tablet in a whole new way. You can decide what gestures trigger what result,
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