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.8/6/22
I am attempting to make a bookmark on the dock. I’ve done it before but I can’t remember the process. I don’t want to drag the URL to the desktop, then down to the dock. I’m attempting to keep my desktop clean. Please help me get the url to the dock ... (1 Comment)
8/5/22
Much like Stickies, I want to know if there is a native approach to floating a window on top of other windows without 3rd party apps. In my instance, I am trying to float a TextEdit window on top of a Numbers window as reference.
Instead of using Spaces or Tiling windows ... (2 Comments)
8/4/22
Every day I check my blood glucose, blood pressure, weight and temperature. I put this info into a numbers spreadsheet. Once a week I would like to send an email to my kids with the last 7 days info not the whole spreadsheet. Thanks.
Now I have 2 separate spreadsheet. One I ... (3 Comments)
8/4/22
Is there a way to add a usable PDF to a Numbers sheet?
I’m summing up my notes from a meeting and I’d like to add a PDF containing a lot of info to my Numbers sheet. I’d like to be able to open the PDF and read it later on and not just have it as an ... (2 Comments)
8/2/22
Is there a way to organize columns based on how many cell in the column are true? i take attendance and some people dont show after signing up for the class but they are in the front of the table. instead of me have to select the column and do it myself i want to organize based ... (1 Comment)
8/2/22
Hello, I am a new Mac user coming from a Windows background. Recently I purchased a MacBook Pro to start my Apple journey.
After exploring my Mac, I noticed that when opening the contacts, I noticed that automatically I have a vCard for myself, so I added and filled few info ... (1 Comment)
8/1/22
How do I set ‘open full screen’ in Notes, Messages and other apps(eg. Feedly RSS reader)? I find it annoying that they open in small useless windows in the bottom right corner of my screen and I’m constantly have to manually enter full screen through the menu ... (5 Comments)
7/23/22
In Pages, is there any way to set up Page Layout as the default when you first open up the application?
I am going to be doing a series of newsletters and I want Pages to always open up in Page Layout. I know I can set up a template and always use that, but is there a setting to ... (1 Comment)
7/14/22
When using photos I set up albums and put pictures in the albums. For example, I have albums for flowers, home remodeling, etc. Often I’m in the album and decide to delete a particular photo. But then I have to go back to my library and hunt for the picture (sometimes from ... (2 Comments)
7/13/22
There are several Folders within my Notes app that I no longer use but want to keep them… just in case I need to reference items in them in the future. When I do a Spotlight search… I’d like Spotlight not to look in those folders. Is there a way to do ... (1 Comment)
7/12/22
Looking for keyboard shortcuts in Mail to jump to the email at the top of the message list or at the bottom of the message list. Currently, when I select a message deep in the list, the only way I’ve found to get to the top or bottom of the list is to wiggle the mouse ... (1 Comment)
7/9/22
I have a late 27″ 2012 iMac with 16 GB memory running Catalina. I’m looking to buy a new Mac Mini or Studio and want to know if I can use my older iMac as a display. Would I be able to use the older iMac’s hard drive also? What kind of cords would I need and how ... (1 Comment)
7/8/22
Is there a way to make a PDF document fillable that has already been created, using either a previously installed app or a free app on a Mac?
I have Pages, Word 2021, Adobe Acrobat installed, but they all seem to want to charge additional for this option.
I am trying to fill out ... (2 Comments)
7/8/22
I am having difficulties trying to create a 2 columns Pages documents where the left column is in English and need the right column in a different language. Text start flowing but when I try to put the exact same text in a different language on the right column… issues ... (2 Comments)
7/8/22
with the script that you provide last week:
find . -type f -size +1M -exec cksum {} \; | tee /tmp/filelist.tmp | cut -f 1,2 -d ‘ ‘ | sort | uniq -d | grep -hif – /tmp/filelist.tmp | sort -nrk2
i’m trying to recover from the exiting data and put it in a ... (1 Comment)
7/8/22
But I cannot find how to do a page break in tables in Pages. Very frustrating.
I am trying to format large, multi-page tables mostly in a larger type. As data gets entered, they extend beyond the bottom of the page and do not break cleanly onto a new page. Nor can I find an ... (1 Comment)
7/7/22
Clarity to my initial question: How can I have a “Time In” in one column and a “Time Out” in the next column while having the “Duration” formula in the next column, then have a final column where it rounds the Duration up to the nearest ... (4 Comments)
7/7/22
Trying to create a formula in a cell which needs to have “1/96”, however, Numbers converts the “/” to a “➗” symbol. How can I avoid this? I tried going to Numbers > Preferences > Auto Correction > toggling Automatically Format Fractions on ... (3 Comments)
7/7/22
I am cleaning up 30 years of junk on my computer & I know I have lots of duplicates – both photos, text files, and other stuff. How do I find them?
I am trying to clean up all the extra stuff I have lying around and make a cleaner, neater Mac.
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Lynn
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7/5/22
I have dataset include Zeros and I want Min result to be the number bigger than zero
I need to get the lowest price of a product and there are more than 200 person entering data , some of them entering zero by mistake,
and Min formula results Zero
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Ghassan
... (7 Comments)
