If you want to customize your Windows XP desktop and add a new, interesting effect, you can make your desktop icons have a background color. You can use the advanced settings of the Appearance menu to ...

Judy Port wants to change the text color in desktop icon captions. Microsoft doesn’t provide that option, but there’s a trick to turning the default white text to black. You can also turn off the drop ...

PowerPoint has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have.

Now that you’ve installed Windows 10 and mastered the basics of Microsoft’s new operating system, you’re going to want to start digging deeper into some of the customization options available—like ...

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Your options for editing PowerPoint templates look fairly similar whether you make them on the desktop or web version of ...

To change the cell background with VBA Editor in Excel follow these steps: Launch Microsoft Excel. Click the Developer tab, then click the Visual Basic button. Once the VBA Editor is open, type the ...

It only takes a few steps to change your image's background color in Photoshop. You'll just need to use the Quick Selection Tool and Quick Mask mode.