Helpline: Putting a stop to those Chrome notification ads
Q. Google Chrome is showing pop-up ads in the lower right corner of my screen. They are not anything that I want to see or use. How can I turn these off ?
A. These notifications in Chrome can be quite annoying. They are often activated inadvertently by clicking on certain things when browsing the Web.
They are usually used to send you notifications when a website is displaying new content that you might want to look at.
The easiest way to get rid of these is to simply reset Google Chrome. Instructions for this can be found at tinyurl.com/helplineresetchrome.
If you are wanting to disable these notifications for certain sites but not for others, it’s a little more complicated. But you may want to do this if you have enabled notifications on things like your Webmail or your various social media accounts.
Detailed instructions for this can be found at https://tinyurl.com/helplinenotifications.
This also will have instructions for preventing notifications on the future if you just want to disable it completely.
Q. I am writing a document in Microsoft Word. I have added page numbering to the document, but instead of showing the actual page number, I see the word PAGE inside of two brackets. How do I get it to show me the page number?
A. What you are seeing is an editing tool feature called a Field Code. This is something that basically shows you the underlying code that controls adding things like a page number to your document.
You can turn this off in the settings for Microsoft Word.
If you are using Word on a Windows PC, toggling Field Codes is a simple matter of typing Alt+F9 when the document is open.
If you are using Word on a Mac, click on Preferences and then View and check or uncheck the Field Codes instead of values box in the Show in Document area of the screen.