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Microsoft Office

Applying Hyperlinks to your Text in MS Word 2016

MS Word is an impressive and handy word processor which is being used worldwide by all and sundary. With MS Word you can create text documents easily and can edit them as well. With hyperlinks to your text you can have access to the websites and email addresses directly from your documents. There are various different ways of inserting hyperlinks into your documents. You can use Word’s automatic link formatting or convert text into a link which depends upon how you want the link to appear. Hyperlinks have got two basic parts which are the address (URL) of the webpage and the display text. MS Word often recognizes the email addresses as well as web addresses as you type them and will automatically format them as hyperlink after you press Enter or Spacebar. You can also learn about Fetching any Files on a Remote Computer with OneDrive.

Formatting Text with a Hyperlink:

  • 1st of all you need to select the text which you want to format as a hyperlink.
  • Now select the Insert tab and then click the Hyperlink command.
  • You will notice that the Insert Hyperlink dialog box will appear.
  • The selected text will appear in the Text to Display: field at the top.
  • On the Address: field you need to type the address which you want to link to and then click OK.
  • The text will be formatted as a hyperlink.
  • With these simple steps you will be able to apply hyperlink to your text.

Editing and Removing Hyperlinks:

For editing and removing the inserted hyperlink you need to right click the hyperlink and select either open, copy or remove form the menu that appear.

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Windows 10

Fetching Any File on a Remote Computer with OneDrive

OneDrive has got a hidden feature which is Remote file access. With the fetch featureyou can easily grab any file on your PC even if that file is not stored in OneDrive folder. 1St of all you need to turn this feature ON. Fetch feature is very useful if you have forgotten to save your file to your OneDrive folder or of you have got important files which are stored elsewhere on your computer or on external or mapped drive. You can also learn about Disabling Cortana in Windows 10.

Setting Up Fetch in OneDrive:

  • 1st of all you need to right click on the OneDrive icon in the taskbar and the select Settings.
  • Now check the box next to “Let me use OneDrive to fetch any of my files on this PC”, this option is unchecked by default.
  • In the next step you need to click OK.
  • Now you need to right click on the OneDrive icon in the taskbar and the click Exit.
  • Now for completing the process you need to restart OneDrive.
  • Now you are required to launch OneDrive and for that you need to search for it in the start menu and then click OneDrive in order to open the OneDrive folder and then start the service.

Fetching Files with OneDrive:

For fetching the files with OneDrive you need to follow these simple steps.

  • 1st of all log in to https://onedrive.live.com/ from your PC which needs to access the remote file.
  • Now click on the settings menu icon located at the top left on PCs.
  • Now click on the PCs in order to open a list of available computers and then select the computer youn need to access.
  • Folow the steps for signing in with a security code if this is the 1st time connecting to that computer from thisPC. You will get a security code by text message or email for verifying your identity.
  • Now browse through and access all the files on the connected PC including those which are not in your OneDrive.
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Windows 10

Disabling Cortana in Windows 10

Windows 10 is the latest operating system from Microsoft and it has enhanced the user experience to great degree. Cortana has been found as a very handy feature for searching on the web, showing notifications and then setting calendar reminders along with its other specialities. But there are people who are very concious about the security might be wary about what the AI assisistant is learning about you. Disabling Cortana was not a big issue prior to the recent Windows 10 Anniversary updateas you need to just toggle the switch for disabling Cortana but after this update Windows 10 has made it almost impossible to do so. Below is a tutorial by which you can fix this issue in Windows 10 Pro and Home. You can also learn How to Activate Parental Control in Windows 10. Now for turning OFF the cortana you need to follow these simple steps.

  • 1st of all you need to open the regedit the registry editor from the search box on the task bar.
  • Now you need to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
  • But Windows Search is not necessarily present and if not then you need to create it.
  • For that you need to right click the Windows folder and select New>Key and then call it Windows Search.
  • Now right click Windows Search and select New>DWORD (32 Bit Value).
  • Name the DWORD “AllowCortana” and then click it and make sure the value is “0.”
  • Now restart the computer and Cortana will be replaced with a regular search bar.
  • With these simple steps you will be able to disable Cortana in Windows 10.