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Outlook lets you add an expiration date to email you send or receive. Once the expiration date has passed the email will be displayed with different formatting, and you can use Outlook’s built-in tools to manage expired email automatically. Expiration dates only apply to emails, not calendar events or tasks because those items have their own dates you can use for managing them How to Set an Expiration Date on an Email To add an expiration date to an email you’re sending, you need to open the Properties window for the email....

Whether you signed up for the Apple TV+ seven-day trial or were given a year-long membership for free after buying a new device, here’s how to cancel your subscription before you have to start paying for the streaming service. Before you begin, be warned that your access to Apple TV+ will be cut off the moment your subscription is canceled. If your trial is set to renew on a Friday, we suggest canceling on the Thursday before so you can continue using the service as long as possible....

To make reading the on-screen content easier, you can increase or decrease the font size on your iPhone. You have multiple ways to do this, including system-wide as well as on a per-app basis. We’ll show you your options. RELATED: How to Change a Website’s Text Size in Safari for iPhone and iPad Increase or Decrease the Font Size on an iPhone To start changing your font size, launch the Settings app on your iPhone....

When you send an email from your Gmail account, your display name (along with other information) will be shown to the recipient. You can change the display name associated with your Gmail account in a few steps. Here’s how. You can only change the name on your Gmail account on a desktop browser. You can’t use the Gmail mobile app on Android, iPhone, or iPad to change your name....

If you’re a dedicated user of Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, but you have to use Outlook.com for some reason, you can change Outlook’s keyboard shortcuts to match the ones you know and love from Gmail or Yahoo! Mail. Outlook.com Modern vs. Classic Look Most users of Outlook.com should have the modern look and feel for their email account now, which by default shows an all blue bar. If you’ve still got the classic version, which a lot of enterprise versions (the work email provided by your company) are still using, it’ll show a primarily black bar by default....

When you search for something using Google Chrome’s address bar—officially called the “Omnibox”—the search suggestions generate image previews. This can be unnecessary (or even annoying) in many situations. Here’s how to turn off these previews. How to Disable the “Rich Entity” Flag To turn off the feature, you’re going to need to disable a Chrome flag. These are hidden settings that aren’t quite ready for mainstream use but still offer powerful tweaks for your browser....

Windows 10 includes OneDrive, but if you’d rather not see it, there are several ways to disable OneDrive and remove it from File Explorer on Windows 10. Home Users: Uninstall OneDrive Normally RELATED: What’s New in Windows 10’s Creators Update Starting in Windows 10’s Creators Update, you can now easily uninstall OneDrive like you would any other desktop program. Only Windows 10 Home users should do this. If you’re using Windows 10 Professional, Enterprise, or Education, skip this step and use the below Group Policy Editor method instead....

After Windows starts up, it waits about ten seconds before opening your startup programs. This “startup delay” lets your desktop and Windows services finish loading, making everything run a bit smoother. If you have apps you’d rather run immediately, you can do it with a simple Registry hack. The ten-second delay after Windows starts but before it begins loading startup apps gives the operating system time to load into memory and perform any necessary system tasks before the apps start requesting resources....

Resetting your Windows 11 PC will allow you fix some issues or prepare your PC to sell. Doing so erases all your settings and allows you to start again with a clean slate. We’ll show you how to do just that. When you reset your PC, Windows 11 offers the option to either keep or delete your personal files. It deletes all your apps and settings in either case, though....

If Windows isn’t starting properly, you can often use the integrated “startup repair” tool to fix it. This recovery tool will scan your PC for problems like missing or damaged system files. It can’t fix hardware issues or Windows installation problems, but it’s a great first place to start if you’re experiencing trouble booting into Windows. This tool is available on Windows 7, 8, and 10. You can access it from the built-in Windows recovery tools (if they built properly), recovery media, or a Windows installation disc....

When Should You Force Restart? Now and then, your iPhone or iPad might suffer some form of a software glitch. It can be an iOS update gone wrong, a rogue app, or just an iOS or iPadOS bug that won’t go away. Force restarting is most helpful when your iPhone or iPad is stuck and unresponsive. When you can’t even turn off your device, try force rebooting it—it usually fixes the issue....

Tile trackers are handy little Bluetooth devices that let you find your keys, wallet, or anything else you can attach them to. Once you pair them with your account, though, they’re a little hard to remove by design. Here’s how to hide a Tile from your account, transfer in a replacement Tile, or delete a Tile altogether. RELATED: How to Use Tile to Find Your Keys, Wallet, or Anything Else...

Steam for Chrome OS was announced in 2021, and as of November 2022, it’s available in beta. This is not the “Steam Link” Android app that streams games from your PC. It’s full-fledged Steam games running on a Chromebook. RELATED: Here’s How Steam Works on Chromebooks Which Chromebooks Support Steam? Before we get started, there’s one very important thing you’ll need—a compatible Chromebook. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, not many Chromebooks support Steam....

Dumb Devices Are Best Smart plugs work on a pretty simple principle. You insert one into an outlet and plug in something. It cuts power to turn off devices and restores it to turn them back on. If you control any outlets in your home with a light switch, the principle is essentially the same. But that same principle also limits the types of appliances a smart plug can control....

Merging and unmerging cells in Microsoft Excel is a great way to keep your spreadsheet clean, well-organized, and easy to understand. The most common use is creating a header to identify the content across several columns, but no matter the reason, it can quickly be done in Excel. Note that Excel doesn’t allow you to split a cell the same way that you can in a table in Microsoft Word....

Merging cells in Google Sheets is a great way to keep your spreadsheet well-organized and easy to understand. The most common use is for headers to identify content across multiple columns, but regardless of the reason, it’s a simple process. Fire up your browser and head to the Google Sheets home page. Once there, open up a spreadsheet that contains data that needs merging. Highlight the cells you want to merge....

Should you need to use the same style across different parts of your document, Google Docs lets you copy formatting from text, cells, or an object with the Paint Format tool. Here’s how to copy and paste formatting in Docs. Use Paint Format in Docs Fire up your browser, head to Google Docs, and open a document. Highlight the text you want to copy the format of, and then click on the “Paint Format” icon in the toolbar....

If you haven’t gotten around to organizing your Google Drive and need to find something in a hurry, you might have difficulty finding a particular file. Here’s how to quickly search Google Drive. Google Drive Quick Access Google Drive has a feature that sits at the top of the homepage with suggestions of recently opened or edited and potentially relevant files. This feature is called Quick Access, and it’s one of the easiest ways to find a file you regularly open....

Losing files is gut-wrenching, especially if it’s an important work document or pictures of your kids. Online storage solutions usually offer a way to restore deleted files, and iCloud is no different. The process is convoluted, but we’ll hold your hand all the way. Companies like Dropbox offer some extensive solutions for restoring deleted files for months after their deletion, and while iCloud comes close to that, it falls short in many ways....

When You Should Reset Your Ring Doorbell When you reset your Ring doorbell, it forgets all of its existing settings. This can fix common bugs, like problems connecting to Wi-Fi and features not working correctly. If there was a power outage and your Ring is experiencing problems, that’s also a situation where you should try resetting your Ring. It’s also essential if you’re selling, giving away, or otherwise disposing of your Ring....