The MacMost Question and Answer Forum is a place where you can ask how-to questions about your Mac, iPhone, iPad and other Apple products. MacMost specializes in tutorials, tips and techniques of the “how-to” variety, as opposed to “fix-it” questions that are more about something not working as expected.2/14/18
I have names, email addresses, and phone numbers in an Excel spreadsheet. Is there any way to add the phone numbers to existing people in my Contacts listings?
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Marj Green
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2/14/18
I am looking for a Numbers document on my iCloud drive that I modified a few days ago. I thought I’d do a more general search. I searched for “Kind is Any” and “Last modified Date within the last 8 days”. It returned nothing. I know that there ... (2 Comments)
2/14/18
I have 2 photo libraries on my Mac. One personal, the other one is professional. Originally I only had one where I was mixing pro and perso. But now, I have created a new library for pro photos and I would like to transfer the pro photos from my main library (perso) to the new ... (3 Comments)
2/13/18
In TextEdit Markup using the Shapes tool, the arrow colour is always white and it seems there is no way to change that to any other colour. Is that correct?
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Berty
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2/13/18
I am trying to decide whether to invest in a 3rd party backup/restore (eg Carbon Copy Cleaner) or just stick to the inbuilt Disk Utility. Any views?
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Tony Staples
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2/9/18
I do The NY Times mini crossword on my iPad Pro every morning. I access it by opening The NY Times App.
If I complete the crossword on my IPad Pro when Mike opens the app on his IPad Air the crossword comes up completed just as I did it.
Same thing happens if he completes first ... (3 Comments)
2/8/18
After viewing Gary’s latest video “Getting started with Time Machine”, I have several questions. I just used used a restore from iCloud backup to setup a new iPad, in addition I used a manual backup of iTunes Media Library to setup iTunes on a new iMac. ... (3 Comments)
2/8/18
How do I view the full header of an email received and discover what email address it really came from using Apple Mail 10.3?
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Eric
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2/8/18
I have a number of folders that I would like to rename the contents based on creation date. For example in my pets folder rename as Pets1 the earliest and Pets598 the newest. If I select sort them in finder based on creation date and then rename them all using the rename function ... (2 Comments)
2/7/18
I am looking at LibreOffice to use for a database system. It’s free. Does anyone know of a free DB that can be put on a server and accessed by a few different people? The DB will probably have 500 records, 6 tables, 4 forms. Expect total size to be less than 1 meg.
So ... (1 Comment)
2/7/18
Hello how to batch change of date of creation based on file name?
I have movies exported from iMovie I named them like this 2014.11.11.0955
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VoDo
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2/7/18
I deleted photos from my MBP and an SD card. Please suggest software. There are many out there but I trust MacMost.
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Greg Allen
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2/6/18
I find interesting to review, from time to time, the memories created automatically by Photos with the contents of my library and play them as a slideshow. However, for me, it’s a pity that the title [location and date] of the memory are showing on every photo of that ... (2 Comments)
2/5/18
I’m trying to save important emails, but want them off of my computer. I would like to put them on an external drive, but what I’ve tried isn’t working because once I get export them there , it can’t be opened. I’m running the latest update of macOS ... (3 Comments)
2/4/18
I would like to reduce the size of photos to send them as an e-mail. I have an iMac 21.5 inch model MD093x/A. It is El Capitan. I use MS Outlook 2011 for Mac – Home and Business for e-mail. I have to export the photos from “Photos” to “Pictures” in ... (1 Comment)
2/3/18
A friend wrote me a couple of days ago and wondered why she hadn’t had any emails from me. I have a group I call “regulars” and her name had disappeared from the list! I went into contacts to correct that, and although her name was not on my regulars list, in ... (4 Comments)
2/3/18
I want to count the number of times a word appears in one column, depending on a particular word in another column
i.e. how many times does CASH appear in ‘Payment’ column, when ‘January’ appears in the Month column.
I have tried using Countif & ... (2 Comments)
2/3/18
I would like to create a service, which can compress the PDF documents easily using Automator rather than using third-party applications.
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Kishore Kumar
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2/1/18
How do I make Helvetica Neue Light Italic the default font for composing in Mail
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Raiford Gardiner
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2/1/18
In earlier versions of MacMail one could bounce back an email as being an “invalid address, or not found.”
Apple has removed this function, or hid it amazingly well.
Is there a way to do that? – with HTML or somehow return an email as “not deliverable, ... (1 Comment)
