What is the difference between Contacts and Address Book in Outlook? The difference between Contacts and Address Book is that Contacts is an external list of contacts, while an address book contains information about your acquaintances or people from your work. How to add Contacts in the Address Book of Outlook Launch Outlook. Open a message of a contact that you want to add to your address book. Once on the message window, you will see the person email shown in one of these lines From, To, Cc, or Bc....

How to add or remove Border from Text Box in PowerPoint Follow the steps below to add and remove Borders or Outlines from Text Boxes or around Paragraphs in Microsoft PowerPoint. Launch Microsoft PowerPoint. Then insert a text box into your slide. A Shape Format tab will appear on your menu bar; click on it. Then click the Shape Outline button in the Shape Styles group. In the Shape Outline menu, there is various option in the menu that you can choose from:...

Microsoft recently added a new functionality in the Taskbar, which is called News and Interests. It brings all the latest happenings, weather forecasts, etc., under one roof so that you can get more information without opening a browser. If you often read news on various websites instead of a traditional newspaper, this widget may help you a lot. Some people like to read sports-related news, whereas you might want to read business-related information....

Add Yammer group tab for Microsoft Teams In this post, we will walk you through the process of connecting Yammer to Microsoft Teams so that Yammer posts will be sent to a Microsoft Teams and members of the team can interact and take necessary action. The team members can join the Yammer conversation, right from Teams, or discuss a Yammer conversation in Teams before posting a reply to the wider Yammer group....

We stay updated with our favorite website either by subscribing to the newsletter or by allowing that website to send push notifications on the desktop. Web Notifications or Push Notifications on Windows PC seem like a good idea but sometimes if they are more or due to some other reason, we may want to disable them. If you are looking for the same, then this article is for you. I will let you know how to block Web Notification requests in Chrome, Firefox and Edge browser on your Windows desktop....

Initially, our Metro UI Tweaker allowed users to tweak the settings so as to land directly on the desktop. But this tweaker did not work in subsequent Windows 8 releases – as the setting was removed. Microsoft had removed the option to boot directly to desktop mode from the admin panel of user Group Policies. This meant that even the admins cannot use group policies to change the default boot sequence....

A leap year has one day more than a non-leap year, but it impacts a lot of calculations. The payroll for many companies are different for leap years, the profit calculations for business are impacted by leap years. Calculate the number of leap years between two dates in Excel The syntax to count the number of leap years between two dates in Excel is as follows: Where, and are the cells specifying the first and last date of the period between which you need the count of leap years....

How to change Color of part of a picture in PowerPoint To dissemble and change the color of each part of an illustration stock image in PowerPoint, follow these steps: Open the PowerPoint presentation. Change the PowerPoint slide to blank. On the Insert tab, click the Pictures button and select Stock images from its menu. When the Stock Image dialog box opens, click the Illustration tab, choose an image, then click insert....

You can change the default font of Heading 1, Heading 2, Title, Subtitle, Subtitle Emphasis, Emphasis, Intense Emphasis, Strong, Quote, Intense Quote, Subtitle Reference, Intense Reference, Book Title, and List Paragraph. However, it is not possible to change all of them at once. You can apply different styles at different times by following the same method. Change default Heading, Quote, Title font in Word To change the default Heading, Quote, Title font in Word, follow these steps- Open up the Microsoft Word on your PC and right-click on any Style....

You had to open Sticky Notes > 3-dots > Settings and then slide the slider, under Enable insights. We have to say, the removal of the font feature to change its size is a strange one. We remember a time when this was a much asked for feature, so to see the software giant choosing to add it, then take it away, it makes us wonder who thought this was a good idea....

Change Keep Alive Timeout If you wish, you can change this HTTP KeepAliveTimeout value, to say 2 minutes. This can be useful if the Web Server has a 2 minute time out value. But if the Web Server has a 1 minute timeout, then changing this value will not make a difference, as the lower of the two values – Browser timeout and Server timeout, is always considered. Create system restore point first and then Run regedit to open the Registry Editor....

What are Power Options in Windows 11/10 Power Options is a setting in the Windows Control Panel, under the Hardware and Sound category, that allows the user to adjust their power plan and power settings on their computer. In a nutshell, these are pretty handy options that allow you to set up and enjoy just the right performance and battery balance on your computer. By tweaking them, you can favor performance over battery life and vice versa....

Although, it has been seen that after changing the phpMyAdmin password on XAMPP, users may encounter an access denied error message that prevents them to log in to MySQL phpMyAdmin. In order to fix this issue, you need to change the configuration settings in the config.inc.php file. So, let’s get started. How to change phpMyAdmin password on XAMPP To change the phpMyAdmin password on XAMPP, you first need to launch the XAMPP Control Panel....

How to change Spell Check language in Outlook Follow the below-listed steps to change spellchecking in Outlook on the web. 1] Log into your Microsoft Outlook account on your web browser and click on Settings. 2] Now, scroll down and click the “View all Outlook settings” option. After that, go to “Mail > Compose and reply” and scroll down the right-hand side of the interface to view the “Microsoft Editor settings” option....

How to change the language to English in Firefox If you accidentally changed your Firefox language to any other like German, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, etc, then this post shows how to change the language back to English. Just follow the list of instructions as given below. Launch the Firefox browser and open a new tab in the browser. Navigate the mouse cursor near the upper-right corner of the browser window and click the 3 horizontal bars to open the Application menu....

Change Touchpad Cursor Speed in Windows 11/10 If you want to change the Touchpad Cursor Speed on your Windows computer, follow these steps. Windows 11 Windows 10 That is how you can change the cursor speed on a Windows 11 or 10 computer. It is quite easy to mess things up and change cursor speed to something that’s even more annoying. Microsoft is well aware of this issue and that is why they have an option to reset the settings; you can check our guide on how to reset Touchpad settings to default on a Windows computer....

The company is adding everything into the Settings area, and the newest addition is the option to change Windows 10’s transparency. Change Transparency levels in Windows 10 Before we go into the steps, it should be noted that this new look of Windows 10 is called “Acrylic,” and it’s part of Microsoft’s plan to continue with the improvement of the Fluent Design System. Now, with the right wallpaper, having the transparency up and running can look quite beautiful, but at the same time, it may slow down slower systems....

Windows Credentials Manager is the place where your usernames and passwords, as well as other login details, are stored for later use in a digital library. This includes information for websites and apps, as well as network credentials. Credentials are split into four categories viz: Windows Credentials – are used only by Windows and its services. For example, Windows can use these credentials to automatically log you into the shared folders of another computer on your network....

While some users might find the recent searches that the search bar displays useful, since it allows them to go revisit those topics quickly and conveniently, that may not be the case for all. Others may find it intrusive, in case any sensitive information was searched for and someone else was able to look at it from the search history section. If you belong to the latter group, this post is for you....

Every Windows user might have observed, whenever he clicks on the ‘down’ arrow or start typing something in the address bar field of File Explorer, a history of all previous locations and URLs appears before him. This could raise privacy or security concerns for some. All the URLs can be deleted by removing them via Registry Editor. In this post, we will see how you can remove or delete Windows File Explorer address bar auto-suggest history items from the drop-down menu....