MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

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.


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1/12/17
I will press and hold the home button and before I can take a breath, she says she didn’t understand me. If I pause during any dictation, she is ready to send message. Sometimes I’m thinking about what I want to say! —– Lynda Farabee ... (2 Comments)
1/12/17
Is there a way to click on or more quickly add date information from a web browsing window to an Apple calendar? i.e. I have multiple windows open looking at blogging conferences and want to quickly add their data to a calendar. —– Kevin McCormick ... (1 Comment)
1/11/17
How to cancel all possible format from a text. —– Juan Carlos ... (1 Comment)
1/9/17
I open Safari. In the search box at the top of the page, I type the word NAME anywhere in the box and, immediately, my name, address, phone numbers appear. I open TextEdit. I select new document. Wherever I type the word NAME in the document all of my information, as above, ... (4 Comments)
1/8/17
I have a Quotes.numbers which contains hundreds of my favorite quotes. I would like to use Automator.app to send one of these random quotes to myself via my iMessage address at 6AM everyday. I have no idea about how to write AppleScript. How should I do? Thank you guys a ... (1 Comment)
1/6/17
In email the application. In my inbox I want to right click and move to folder, email used to remember the last few folders and now it does not. what has happened to my recent used folder list? Where has it gone? —– Tony Caselnova ... (3 Comments)
1/6/17
I type a newsletter which needs print outs for some people. The left margin looks fine on screen but the print out has a large left margin about 1″ How do I reduce the margin? The same newsletter is distributed from a group contact list. There are two new contacts which ... (1 Comment)
1/6/17
I was going through some of the web page bookmarks (not apps) that I had added to my iPhone home screen. I found one that I wanted to remove, but was not able to do so just using the iPhone. Doing a long press resulted in a different action and not the jiggling icons with the X ... (2 Comments)
1/5/17
I have the latests version. When you start typing in a cell in Numbers, previously used contents will pop up. Is there any way to edit these as many of the suggestions are no longer wanted. Thanks. —– Marcia Byerly ... (1 Comment)
1/2/17
I have imported a video to my keynote presentation. I want it to automatically play after a slide and play the entire 4:30 minutes and then automatically transition into the next slide. The video starts then stops and skips to the next slide. What am I doing wrong/missing? I ... (1 Comment)
12/31/16
Most of my clips from imovie theatre are black is there a way to put a picture in it like by YouTube that you can choose a custom thumbnail from your library? —– Jos Molegraaf ... (4 Comments)
12/30/16
How do I get my Macbook to scan all my photos to place them in people? —– David Korte ... (2 Comments)
12/30/16
When I try to use AirDrop to move a Live Photo from my iPhone 6s (iOS 10.2) to my MacBook (10.12.2), all that AirDrop transfers is the still image.   However, if I use a USB cable to move the Live Photo from my phone to my Mac, the Live Photo is preserved.   When I use AirDrop ... (4 Comments)
12/30/16
I would like to know how I can save or print the texts and pics sent to me as text messages on my iPhone. I would like to save/print them as a journal type keepsake. —– Donna ... (7 Comments)
12/29/16
How do I save a Word for iPad file from my iPad to iCloud Drive without having to browse through the entire folders and sub-folders in my iCloud before I reach the desired destination folder? Is there a way to start from the main folders like in my Mac, expanding the directory ... (1 Comment)
12/29/16
I would like to delete all of the email addresses which appear when typing a name in Mails address bar. I know about the little arrow and some will show a delete command but others don’t. Is there away to delete the whole file of preexisting addresses? —– Lee ... (2 Comments)
12/29/16
Is there a way to use the split screen feature on my iPad Pro with two safari windows as you can in sierra? Thank you very much, Gerry —– Gerry Toole ... (1 Comment)
12/29/16
I have used iCloud Drive for about 2 months, paying on a monthly basis. I wish to cancel the subscription. How do I do that? And will all my files be retained on my computer as they were? —– Loree Muldowney ... (1 Comment)
12/29/16
Using Pages 6.0.5: Trying to email an invoice to Windows customer and they cannot open the .pages file even though I have the box ticked to send Windows friendly files. Your thoughts? —– Mike K ... (10 Comments)
12/29/16
Hello Macmost. Sorry for my English I am from Danmark. I’m trying to make a schedule that includes lunch breaks so I need to calculate three different times. (=sum 20:15 – 1:15 – 7:00 equals error). Why? Please help —– Erling Therkelsen ... (1 Comment)