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How to enable insert equation in Word

Word 2016, 2013 and 2010 provide users with the option to insert mathematical equations in a document. This is quite useful when you are preparing a word document with mathematical questions. Users can insert equations using the option available as part of the Office Ribbon’s Insert menu.

But when you open an existing document created in Word 2003, the equation menu option would be disabled.

This is because this feature is available only for document with extension as .docx and not doc. And to resolve this problem all you need to do is to resave the document in Word 2010 file format. Please make sure to pick the value for Save as type drop down as “Word Document (*.docx)”.

The following confirmation message would be displayed, click OK to continue with converting the document.

By this way you can enable the insert equation option in a Word document.

How to turn off display of screen tips in PowerPoint 2013 & 2010

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PowerPoint 2013 and 2010 displays screen tips along with feature description when we hover the mouse over the menu items. By default screen tip feature is enabled in PowerPoint but if you do not want this extra information to be displayed then you can turn off using PowerPoint options.

Click File menu and then Options link

In PowerPoint Options under General tab, navigate to User Interface options.

Set the value for ScreenTip style dropdown to Don’t show ScreenTips and click OK to confirm and save the changes. This would disable the display of screen tips for all menu items in PowerPoint.

How to disable advance slide on mouse click in PowerPoint

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In this short beginners PowerPoint 2013 and PowerPoint 2010 tutorial, we will see the steps to disable advance slide on mouse click. During a slide show, you can move to next slide either by pressing ENTER or SPACEBAR on keyboard or on mouse click. And using Transitions menu, you can disable or enable the advance slide on mouse click.

Click the Transitions menu and navigate to Timing section

If you want to disable the feature, then un mark the check box labelled as On Mouse Click.

Also See: Start PowerPoint Slide Show using Windows Explorer

How to enable autocomplete in Google Docs Spreadsheet

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Autocomplete feature helps users by automatically filling the content of cell when users starting entering the first couple of letters in the Cell. The automatic entry is picked from the previously entered values for the same column.

Let us say you have got the following list of entries in one of the column

Arizona
Alabama
California
Florida
Indiana

Now when you start typing Ar in the cell below Indiana, Spreadsheet will automatically display Arizona based on the entries done earlier for that column. And when you press enter this value will be automatically filled for that cell.

You can enable Autocomplete feature in Google Spreadsheet by clicking the Tools menu and selecting Enable AutoComplete from list of available menus.

Remember that if there is a empty cell before the active cell then Autocomplete feature will try to pick from the below column values.

Display Date Created in finder view on Mac OS

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The Finder view on Mac OS by default does not display the Date Created field for the documents, folders and other items. And if you want to know the date created for these items then you can enable this using Finder View options.

In the Finder View Options window, tick the check box with label as Date Created.

This would display the Date Created column for the respective items as shown above.

How to archive Email messages in iPad 2

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Email accounts configured in iPad 2 allows user to archive the email messages. you can turn on the archive feature using iPad Mail settings. The archive email message option will be available when you touch and swipe on the email message or if you tap the trash icon.

When you swipe on the email message

When you tap the trash icon.

The above screenshots shows that archive message feature is disabled for the configured email account. To enable archiving for the email account, from iPad home screen tap the settings icon. In the Settings screen, navigate to Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings and then select email account to turn on archiving of email messages.

In the select mail account, navigate to Archive Messages section.

Tap and swipe Archive Messages to turn on the feature as shown below.

Now when you swipe on any email message the Archive option will be shown as shown below.

How to recall a message in Gmail

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Gmail provides similar feature like Outlook which can be used to recall a message. This feature can be enabled using Gmail Settings.

1. Logon to your Gmail account.

2. Click on the Settings link available at the top right hand corner next to your email id.

3. In Settings screen, navigate to Labs section.

4. Scroll down to Undo Send section and select the Enable radio option and Click Save changes button to apply the changes.

5. In the General section, navigate to Undo Send section and set the cancellation period. The available values are 10 and 20 seconds. This specifies the time before which you can use the recall or undo send feature. Click on the Save changes button.

Now if you send any email message, Gmail will display a Undo link as shown below.

If you click on the Undo link, the email message will be recalled. This Undo link will be available only for the time period specified in the Gmail General Settings.