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.2/22/13
On a Mac, if I want to highlight a word or phrase in a pages document or an email, how do I edit that text so that it will be easily viewed for the recipient or for later use? And are their options to use different colours?
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Janice McLeod
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2/21/13
With the continuous vulnerabilities in Java. I am wondering if I should just remove it from my Mac. Or am I just as safe from infections/vulnerabilities by simply disabling it in the browser?
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Bryan
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2/21/13
Gary,
When typing on the iPad there will be words that are underlined in red. when I tap on the word a box will appear with suggested spellings, usually one to three variances, but there isn’t an option to have the iPad “learn” a word.
Is there a way to teach ... (3 Comments)
2/21/13
I need to get reverse images printed out. I found that I can reverse them in Preview, but when I try save in iPhoto or print directly, the jpgs revert to the original direction. Is it possible to save and print photos in reverse without getting a new application. If an app is ... (3 Comments)
2/21/13
I like using iCloud because I can work on a document on my Mac desktop and pick up right where I left off on my Mac laptop. No need to use Dropbox. But iCloud has limited storage (so does Dropbox) and I can’t use file folders to organize (but I can in Dropbox). Maybe iCloud ... (3 Comments)
2/21/13
I have a lot of DVDs and small kids and want to set up a media server using AppleTV. Previously, I used Handbrake for Mac (which also already has an AppleTV preset) and converted them to MPEGs and copied them to my PlayStation 3 hard drive, but when my PS3 went up in smoke and I ... (3 Comments)
2/21/13
I have a pricing spreadsheet that includes lots of different sizes of air conditioner systems. What I do is to enter a quantity, and that generates a price. At the bottom is a total of just the items I priced out. I want to find a way to copy only the lines with a quantity value ... (1 Comment)
2/18/13
I have been working for 12 hours trying to rank a column of numbers and listing that SPECIFIC ranking in a different column.
Say I have column “E” with different rows listed as 2,6,8,10. In column “F” I want to assign/show the numerical ranking number of ... (1 Comment)
2/16/13
Does iWork have the same capabilities as Office 2011 for Mac when I need to create documents? I ask because I am thinking of ditching Office for Mac and purchasing the 3 iWork applications, but have been discouraged by Mac users across the board. They say it doesn’t have ... (8 Comments)
2/16/13
When I make multiple screenshots for a project such as a Keynote presentation they collect all over the desktop. I would like to save them to a file for four reasons. 1) they would be in date/time order. 2) when in ‘preview’ the picture size would be larger than it is ... (7 Comments)
2/13/13
Hello I am having trouble working out how to save a .pdf file to open as a double page spread in pages. I want the file to open this way by default instead of people having t o change their settings once open.
Any help would be much appreciated!
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Dan
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2/12/13
when I type a fraction in mail or text edit such as 1/2″, it automatically converts it into a properly formatted fraction number. It’s a great feature, but in Pages it doesn’t do it. I don’t even know how it does it in mail or text edit. I never changed ... (2 Comments)
2/11/13
I prefer the old way of viewing albums, artists and genres in LIST format in iTunes. But, the latest iTunes seems to only show “Songs” in list format. Is there a way to do this?
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Arthur Carter
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2/11/13
I am trying to use numbers with checkboxes showing a percentage of how may checkboxes are marked.I have watched your tutorial on if statements and checkboxes but Im missing something. (besides not being confident with formulas). I am using the formula =IF(R5,1/26*100%,R5)in cell ... (2 Comments)
2/11/13
I got locked out of disk I encrypted via OS X cause I forgot the password. I don’t care about the contents, I simply want to use the disk again and I know there is a command line via terminal to do this but don’t know what it is.
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Bryan
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2/8/13
Just got myself a new Time Capsule which I am planning to set up as a WiFi router for my broadband connection. Given that it comes with a 2TB hard drive that works with Time Machine for backups I was trying to figure out a way of using that 2TB drive as a NAS. Is that possible ... (8 Comments)
2/6/13
I am using numbers 09. I have two columns with dates in them. They are named date issued and expected completion date. The first column on the left is date issued where I insert a date the next column I use the formula =EDATE(F5,3)this gives me a date in 3 months time,this work ... (3 Comments)
2/5/13
My iPad is holding the Christmas videos I took and I want to edit them on my iPad. Holding them there is preventing me from doing a Cloud backup because it exceeds the total of my storage. Why are videos backing up to the cloud and how can I prevent this from happening? Is my ... (8 Comments)
2/5/13
how do I connect with a video camera recently installed in my elderly mom’s home? The website is: [*] and the installer at my mom’s gave me a tutorial today over the phone, but said I had to activate X controls to get the video connected with my Mac. I am currently in ... (3 Comments)
2/5/13
Can you please tell me how to disable or turn off the autocomplete/autofill function in numbers? I am creating a spreadsheet with a column for First Name, Middle Initial, and this feature is driving me crazy. Thanks, in advance for your assistance.
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Joseph
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