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.5/8/22
I have created a Pages document which I have exported into a PDF document. The PDF document is too large to send. I need to divided it and break it down into 2 or 3 smaller PDF documents.
The PDF document as is, is too big. I need to send this document somehow, even if it ... (1 Comment)
5/5/22
How do I create and design labels using my Mac? I sure hope I don’t have to purchase Word to be able to do labels. I love all your tips and uses on my Apple products.
I am trying to make some labels for products that I own…I want to use Avery 5160 ... (2 Comments)
5/4/22
How do I make the default cursor larger?
I am 75 years old and my vision is not what it used to be. I need the default cursor to be bigger so I don’t lose it on the screen-have to use the mouse wiggle way to often.
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Michael Steen
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5/4/22
How can I paste an item on multiple keynote slides simultaneously?
I have to paste a logo on thousands of slides among tens of files.
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Ikram Ur Rehman
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5/1/22
Did we lose the ability to assign an app to a specific desktop in Monterey? When I control click on an app in the dock I have just 3 choices — Keep in Dock; Open at Login; Show in Finder. Or, am I missing something?
I am using desktops to manage how I work with the apps I ... (2 Comments)
5/1/22
I like Apple Notes and I am trying to use this app as often as I can, however there is one “little” ditty that bugs me.
This is, the web links appear on my monitor as a light yellow colour.
Can the colour be changed to say a darker tone, such as blue etc.
Because it ... (1 Comment)
4/30/22
If I move a photo from my Photos App to my desktop and then trash the photo from the Desktop, does the photo get deleted from the Photos App when I empty the Trash?
I often move a Photo to the desktop from Photos App. I use the photo on the desktop for a project the I am working ... (1 Comment)
4/29/22
Is there a way to turn a file path into a hyperlink on any Mac computer that is sharable on a network? For an example, we have 8 different computers on our network; each in separate offices (same office location). I would like to be able to share a file path as a hyperlink to ... (4 Comments)
4/28/22
Hi, Gary. I would like to know if it it safe to carry around a MackBook Air M1 (such as putting it into a backpack while riding my motorbike to work) while just putting the computer into sleep mode, or is it a preferable to shut down the computer when I want to move it more than ... (2 Comments)
4/27/22
Gary, I just finished watching your video suggesting, among other strategies to deal with internal disk space, moving my extensive photo collection covering many years up and over to iCloud, but what worries me most is backup. I am a dedicated belt-and-suspenders kind of ... (8 Comments)
4/27/22
I am an avid pages user who adds tables to many pages for work. However, with the newest update when I copy & paste tables between pages they move slightly. This is regardless of being “stay on page” with nothing around to move it.
For example:
New table on Page ... (1 Comment)
4/26/22
Hi Gary, I want to create a ‘to do list’ that has deadlines in a list view, that sorts the various deadlines in date order, with the most immediate at the top of the list. Does the Mac have a programme where i can do that ? i tried “Reminders’ and the ... (2 Comments)
4/26/22
I want to display a different time zone (simultaneously with local),
preferably in the menu bar
I have a lot of dealings in Europe, so I would like to display European
time as well as local time in the menu bar (as digital display).
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Paul
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4/26/22
I make lots of Keynote files on different topics and use them as flash cards. Sometimes I want to use the contents from one of the Keynote files I made, but cannot remember what file its located in so I wind up searching many files until I find the info I’m looking for. ... (2 Comments)
4/25/22
Is there an equivalent to window’s *.* search in the Mac finder? Your video on Smart Folders shows how to do it for kind =“documents”
is this the same? I want to see *every* (non-hidden) file on my Mac or specific directory and all subfolders. Can this be done?
I ... (1 Comment)
4/25/22
HI, In Excel there is the Text function converts a supplied numeric value into text, in a user-specified format.
I am trying to do the same in Numbers put there is not an equivalent function is there?
I am trying to bring the results of two separate calculation together into one ... (2 Comments)
4/25/22
I want to download a 50 gb file. The download fails when MacBook goes to sleep. How can I set my MacBook in night so it can download 500 gb files from safari till morning. Sorry for the silly question. I googeled a lot but nothing worked. Thanks in advance.
Downloading large ... (1 Comment)
4/23/22
Is there a way to create a new album in Photos and move photos from “library” to new album and not have them displayed in “Library”
Same question except Is there a way to create a new album in Photos and move photos from “Recents” to new album ... (3 Comments)
4/22/22
I have a 10TB external hard drive and today Time machine is reporting an error that the disk does not have enough room for the next backup. I thought that Time machine automatically deleted older backups to make way for the latest. Am I correct, is something wrong or do I need to ... (9 Comments)
4/21/22
What is the best way to back up videos I have on my iPhone into an external hard drive? Trying to avoid having to Airdrop into my Macbook Air to then copy over to the external hard drive.
The videos are located in the Photos app (ie the location where videos get immediately ... (7 Comments)
