Reader Ryan writes in with a neat Mac OS X customization. He says: "The toolbar on top of the finder is somewhat limited and there may be more actions you want to perform while browsing through your ...

Most people use VLC as just a media player, but it can also serve as a surprisingly handy video editor. Its trim feature lets you cut unnecessary parts with precision, while the crop tool helps remove ...

Use Microsoft Word every day? Millions do, simply taking the way its developers designed the program’s menus as the way it has to be. With a few customizations, you can make changes that better suit ...

If you work with Microsoft Word 2011, you may find the program’s toolbars and ribbon practical ways to access functions you use often, such as formatting, alignment, and highlighting. But the toolbars ...

Q: I am using Outlook 2013, and I would like to have an easy way to print and save messages. Right nowI have to jump through a few hoops to do this. Is there a way to have these options available in ...

I use just a handful of functions in Microsoft Office’s toolbar menus. Is there some way to shorten the dropdown list or add the ones I frequently need? Yes, to both questions. If all you want to do ...

To help readers follow the instructions in this article, we use two different typefaces. Boldface type is used to identify the names of icons, agendas and URLs. Sans serif type indicates commands and ...

Reader Barbara Van Gorder misses some of the cosmetic features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Word. She writes: In older versions of Word there were pictures on the toolbar for cut and paste.