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.8/1/22
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)
6/29/22
I’m learning how to use a recently purchased MacBook Air M1 and have a question about photos. I am using albums to organize my photos. How can I identify the photos that are NOT associated with an album?
I am importing photos from an old, no longer used, pc. They are in ... (5 Comments)
6/21/22
How can I open a photo in Preview without it opening in Photos?
I want to do some editing that I can only do in Preview.
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Jim Cunningham
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6/21/22
You showed the new Apple Mail option coming in Ventura. I was wondering if I would have to have Mail running in background to use the Send Later function? At present I’m using Spark as my default email and have created templates that I schedule during the week which ... (3 Comments)
6/16/22
How to set the iphone to automatically default to speakerphone mode on incoming and outgoing calls.
I am usually alone and outside when using the my iPhone 13 (iOS 15.5). I prefer to most always use the speaker on both outgoing and incoming calls. Is there a way to have all calls ... (2 Comments)
6/16/22
I am trying to understand the relationship between the iPhone and my Mac desktop when I have set my phone to ring on, and calls to be controlled from, the iMac. I like this feature because I can use the iMac as a VERY high quality speakerphone, which is very convenient, but I ... (1 Comment)
6/13/22
I would like to rename the files that have time stamp added on the end of the file name.
Basically remove last 25 characters before the extension.
Examples:
IMG523314(2021-12-05-14-51-25_UTC).jpg > IMG523314.jpg
Test run1(2021-08-05-11-32-18_UTC).txt > Test run1.txt
25 ... (18 Comments)
