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Turn off automatically created border lines in Word

Word 2016, 2013 and 2010 have a feature that allows users to automatically create border lines by just typing the character three times. For example if you type dash (-) three times and press enter key in a document, Word will automatically draw a border line with dash character. This is useful when your want to quickly draw border lines in your document.

AutoFormat As You Type – Border lines

Word application allows also users to turn off this feature using the Proofing options. Click the File menu then Options link. In Word Options window, click AutoCorrect options button under Proofing tab.

Then in the AutoCorrect window, navigate to Apply as you type section under AutoFormat As You Type tab. Now un mark the check box with label as Border lines. Click Ok button to confirm and save the changes.

Quickly turn off border line feature

You can quickly turn off border line feature using the AutoCorrect Context menu Options. Type the character 3 times and press enter to draw the border line. Now select “Stop Automatically Creating Border lines” option from the drop down list.

If you want to temporarily stop creating border line just for one or two occurrences then you press Ctrl + Z to undo the changes.

Turn off display of hyperlinks in Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010 messages

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Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010 by default displays any Internet address as hyperlinks. This is pretty useful feature and by clicking the hyperlink would quickly launch the website. But if you want to disable this feature while reading as well as composing mail, then you turn off this feature using Editor Options.

Turn Off display of hyperlinks when reading messages

Click the File menu –> Options link then navigate to Mail Options.

Click the Editor Options button available under the Compose messages section. In the Editor Options window, click the AutoCorrect Options button available under the Proofing section.

In the AutoCorrect Window, navigate to Replace section under AutoFormat tab and un tick the check box with label as Internet and network paths with hyperlinks.

Turn Off display of hyperlinks when composing messages

In the AutoCorrect Window, navigate to Replace as you type section under AutoFormat as You Type and un tick the check box with label as Internet and network paths with hyperlinks.

How to turn off the reading pane in Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010

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Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010 have reading pane which displays the email details when we browse through the messages. This reading pane can be positioned either to the right or bottom of the email list.

A Sample message displayed in Reading Pane is shown below

If you want to turn off the reading pane using the Options available as part of View menu. Navigate to View menu then to the Layout section.

In the Layout section, click the down arrow available below the Reading Pane and select Off from the list of available menus.

By this way you can hide the reading pane in Outlook 2010.

Video demo – Turn off reading pane in Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010

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.

Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007 – Clear email addresses in auto complete list

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Microsoft Outlook suggest names while typing in To or Cc or Bcc fields. This is useful when you want to quite include already used email address. But there would be scenarios where you would like to disable this feature. Outlook provides option to turn on/off suggestion and also clear Auto-Complete list (available only in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010). Listed below are the steps turn off suggesting names in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007

Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

Click File menu then Options followed by Mail tab.

In the Mail Options screen, navigate to Send messages section and un mark the check box with caption as “Use Auto-Complete List to suggest names when typing in the To, Cc and Bcc lines”. If you want to just clear the listed names then click Empty Auto-Complete List option.

Outlook 2007

In order disable this feature in Outlook 2007, navigate to Tools menu and select Options from the menu list. This would display the Options dialog box

And click on the Email Options button and then the Advanced Email Options

This would display the following Advanced E-mail Options dialog box. And by un checking Suggest names while completing To, Cc, and Bcc fields, complete names feature would be displayed.

Also See: Missing BCC field in Outlook 2013

How disable the sound for keyboard clicks in iPad

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The sound heard for keyboard clicks in iPad can be disabled using the settings. To disable the sound

Tap the settings icon on the iPad home screen.
In the settings screen, navigate Sound settings.

And this would Turn off the sounds for the Keyboard clicks in iPad 2

Turn off Pop-up blocker on Google Nexus 7

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This is a short article on the steps required to turn off pop-up blocker in Google Chrome installed on Google Nexus 7. By default the pop up blocker is enabled in Google Chrome. But if you are frequently accessing websites that display popups that you need to have access to then you can turn off pop blocker using the Settings available as part of Google Chrome.

Step 1: Launch Google Chrome on Google Nexus 7

Step 2: Access the Chrome Settings by tapping option available at the top right hand corner.

Step 3: In the Google Chrome settings screen, tap the Content settings option under Advanced section.

Step 4: Now to turn off the pop up blocker, un mark the checkbox with label as Block pop-ups to allow pop-ups from websites.

How to hide bookmarks bar in Safari on iPad

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Safari browser on iPad, like any other PC or Mac browsers allows users to save webpage URL as bookmark. It also provides a separate Bookmarks Bar for easily accessing these saved URLs.

Screenshot with saved bookmarks

If you are not using the Bookmarks Bar on Safari then you have the option to turn off the display of Bookmarks Bar. This would give more space for the web page browsing and you can still access the saved bookmarks using the Safari browser menu items.

Hide Bookmarks Bar on Safari

Navigate to iPad home screen and tap the settings icon. Then navigate to the General section under Safari settings.

Slide the ON/OFF switch to turn off the “Always Show Bookmarks Bar”