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Format the data as a table How-To Geek's Tony Phillips presses Ctrl+T so the range answers to a name like tblSales, names the Region column in Name Manager so data validation can reach it from another sheet, drops a validation list into cell B3, then writes =FILTER(tblSales,tblSales[Region]=B3) to pull back only the matching rows, multiplying two conditions with an asterisk when both must be true and adding them with a plus sign when either will do; he notes the formula needs Excel for Microsoft 365, that anything parked where the results spill returns a #SPILL! error, and that totals and counts are still better served by a PivotTable with slicers.

Start inside autofill MakeUseOf's Afam Onyimadu switches on master password re-prompt for individual items from the three-dot Edit screen, turns off automatic TOTP copying under Settings and Autofill, leaves Autofill on page load unchecked because an untrusted site can exploit it, changes default URI match detection to Host so one login stops appearing across every subdomain, adds the sites he never wants touched to Blocked domains, and moves key derivation from PBKDF2 to Argon2id in the web vault, noting that the re-prompt is an interface guardrail rather than encryption and that PBKDF2 is still the better answer where FIPS 140-2 compliance matters.

Separate working from delivery MakeUseOf's Yadullah Abidi treats RAW and TIFF as archives rather than things you hand to anyone, edits without overwriting the source so a high-quality master survives, exports JPEG for finished photographs that have to travel by email or upload, saves screenshots, logos and diagrams as PNG because that is where exact pixels matter rather than wherever maximum quality sounds safest, and reaches for WebP or AVIF when the destination is a web page, with the warning that a JPEG already thinned by repeated edits cannot be repaired by converting it to PNG.

Scan, then search the text Android Police's Anu Joy taps the plus button and picks Scan so a receipt or form becomes a cropped PDF, leans on Drive's text recognition to find words inside images and scanned PDFs instead of guessing at filenames, opens a PDF in Google Docs from the desktop right-click menu to pull out editable text, restores an earlier draft from File and Version history with its timestamp and editor name, writes a short note under File information and Details so a shared folder explains itself, marks what she needs available offline, and narrows the search by type, owner, location, date and collaborator; her one caution is that the text recognition is not flawless, though it is often surprisingly accurate on typed documents.