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Ever have people telling you that an email you sent from OWA (Office 365) is coming up in cursive font when they view on their phone? Try changing your default font style to something other than Comic Sans.
Embedded below is a 1 minute and 34 second YouTube tutorial.
Take care,
Brad
If you use Google Docs and would like to print out the comments that exist on the document try the following steps.
Make sure to go to file,A number of people have reached out recently about the fact that anytime they try to open a PDF directly from Google Drive, it opens in Kami.
This can be a little frustrating, especially if all you want to do is download it to your computer. Conversely, you may also want to force Kami to open from Drive. In order to accomplish either one simply enter into Google DriveA nice new feature in Google Drive is the ability to block specific users. This prevents people from sharing unwanted files with you. If you use Drive for work or school, you can not block them if they are in your domain.
In order to prevent them simply right-click a file they shared with you, and choose Block.
If you blocked them by mistake, or would like to see the users you have blocked...
If you have ever been frustrated because Dark Mode was somehow enabled on your computer here are a few possible solutions.
1. I am on a Windows based device. If you go into your settings, then select personalization, colors, scroll down and choose your default app mode to be light.In Google Maps it is very simple to change your vehicle. Simply select the blue circle with the white triangle and you will see three three options (red, green, and yellow vehicles).
Also, if you would like to add a report, simply select the circle with a plus on the right-hand side. There you will see options to add a report for the following: crash, speed trap, slowdown, construction, lane closure, stalled vehicle, and object on road.Ever use Google Maps and find the compass is showing you the actual cardinal directions, but you want it easier to see what driving direction to go? If so - simply look on the right hand side for the compass (on my phone it was the second from the bottom). 😀
Embedded below is a 23 second YouTube tutorial.
Bookmarks in Docs are just like a bookmark that you would use to mark your place in a book. You use bookmarks to mark a location in a document so that you can quickly find and jump back to it. This is quite helpful, especially when you may have lots of documents to read/edit.
Another use would be to allow you or your readers to jump to a specific part in the doc itself. To do this:
Insert a bookmark at the specific part of your doc
Click on the bookmark
Right click where it says link
Copy the URL and place it in your document.
Embedded below is a 1 minute and 45 second YouTube tutorial.
Take care,
Brad
The other day I noticed that if I took a Live Photo from my photos and set it on my Lock Screen, I could still see the movable photo. Pretty cool!
The whole process is pretty simple.
If you can't think of the name of the song, but you can hum it - try opening up a Google search, tap the mic and then tap search a song and hum the song.
Embedded below is a 48 second YouTube tutorial.
If you want to take a screenshot on your Windows 10 device, I have three ways below.
If you would like to change the font size and font style in Microsoft Outlook try the following:
If you would like to adjust the default font style, size, and line spacing in Google Docs here are the steps:
Nice new feature in Google Chrome's desktop browser - the ability to automatically create a QR code of the particular site you are using.
Simply update your browser to the newest version. As of the date of this post (2/6/21) it is Version 88.0.4324.150.
If you would like to customize the default font size or character options you can simply select (Ctrl + D) - or choose the icon in the bottom right under font.
