How to Add Action Buttons to a PowerPoint Presentation Found in a strange place in the application, you can add action buttons to a PowerPoint slide to make your presentation more interactive and easier to use for the viewer. These action buttons can make a presentation simpler to navigate and make the slides in your presentation behave like web pages. Before you add action buttons to a PowerPoint presentation, consider carefully how your viewers will use your presentation....

Easily View Hardware Information in Ubuntu 10.04 Sometimes all you need is to see it If you need to know the details of your PC’s hardware, there is a simple graphical application, calledGNOME Device Manager, in Ubuntu 10.04 that allows you to view the technical details of your computer’s hardware. To install theGNOME Device Manager, selectAdministration | Synaptic Package Managerfrom theSystemmenu. If you have never usedSynaptic Package Managerbefore, or if you have de-selected theShow this dialog at startupcheck box, theQuick Introductiondialog box displays....

Dealing with Too Many Fonts in Windows? Unknown to some Windows users, it’s the operating system that stores and manages fonts on a computer, not the individual applications that make use of them. Still, with each application you install on your computer such as word processors and desktop publishers, more and more fonts accumulate on your PC. It’s entirely possible for you to have so many fonts on your computer that performance starts to suffer....

Change Measurement Units in Microsoft Word Useful for custom margins or using the metric system By default,Microsoft Worduses inches as its unit of measurement in dialog boxes and on the ruler. You can change measurement units to centimeters, picas, points, or millimeters. This post shows you how to change this setting inWord 2016and earlier. Change Measurement Units in Word To change the default measurement units inWord, click on File and thenOptions....

Change the Host Key in VirtualBox Useful if your laptop doesn’t have a Right Ctrl key If you want to use any of the shortcut keystrokes in VirtualBox, you must use theHostkey in combination with another key. By default, theHostkey is theRight Ctrlkey on the keyboard. There may be some keyboards, like laptop keyboards, that do not have aRight Ctrlkey. If you are in this situation, or you would just rather use a different key as yourHostkey, this post describes how to change which key on the keyboard is used as theHostkey....