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.9/30/21
Trying to make a Keyboard shortcut to open Dictionary while in Finder. SpotLight is fine, but I am in an experimenting mood.
Not finding a Menu Bar trigger to pair a short cut with.
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Greg
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9/30/21
I am director of the Oral History program for a museum and I have a slide that I have formatted in keynote for a specific purpose. I want to make the slide a template or theme so it will be easily accessible for other presentations. I’m having trouble doing ... (1 Comment)
9/26/21
Hi Gary, I’ve been watching your YouTube videos for a while and really enjoy the way you teach. Today I finally joined Patreon! My question is: how do I remove the administrator of my MacBook Pro 2017? My husband bought it for himself but ended up liking his older PC better ... (1 Comment)
9/24/21
I got a new Mac Mini and the internal SSD is not that large (256 GB). I want to have multiple users in my family with their own profiles and so I want to set it up with my “Home Directory” on an external drive. And we might put each profile’s “Home ... (4 Comments)
9/24/21
Reset NVRAM and PRAM on Mac M1
I have been recommended to do this by Ledger Support because of connection problem on Nano S ledger.
I have installed Rosetta 2.
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MAURICE O’GRADY
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9/23/21
My home phone requires touch-tones to access any messages remotely. Does anyone know how to get an iPhone 11 to send touch-tones.
Trying to access messages on my land-Kinect home phone remotely.
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JohnW
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9/21/21
I open my Safari sidebar to see bookmarks list but all I get is a bookmark symbol. I have to select the symbol to open the bookmark list. Is there a way to have the bookmarks list open when I slide my cursor over to auto-open sidebar?
I want to see my bookmark list opened when I ... (3 Comments)
9/20/21
Greetings: New Mac user here, with no programming experience. I’d like to know how to make a custom keyboard shortcut for the “Show Keyboard Viewer” functionality, which appears in the menu bar when you have more than one language keyboard active. (It is found ... (2 Comments)
9/17/21
In short, I want to delete my photo library from my Mac without deleting anything from iCloud photos.
For a few years I only used my phone for my photos, but had “My Photo Stream” activated on both my phone and my Mac. That means that a lot of junk accumulated on my ... (3 Comments)
9/17/21
Normally I use Google Sheets, but I recently switched to a MacBook and want to use Numbers instead of Google Sheets.
I want to use a formula to see if a number is a palindrome. In Google Sheets I have 2 formulas that work, but they don’t work or don’t work well in ... (1 Comment)
9/17/21
My use of my MacBook Air is changing. No longer is it my primary device. I create and edit all my content from documents to audio files to video files and more using apps on my iPad. My Mac isn’t often pressed into action any more. Would you still recommend Time Machine to ... (2 Comments)
9/16/21
How can I get Time Machine to back up my contacts or does iCloud back them up?
Lost a contact thinking Time machine backed it up but Apple support had me move them to the cloud as it doesn’t since between the two.
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Greg
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9/16/21
I suffer from too many concussions (my neurologist calls it post concussion syndrome) and found that I can adjust the pages in the Finder to a gray. The issue is that I haven’t been able to figure out how to set the colour on all pages of the finder (without having to set in ... (1 Comment)
9/15/21
When you do a backup of your Mac on iCloud, are your music files also backuped? On my last back-up I did not see my music listed. Must I do a separate backup for my Music files on a separate device?
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Ken
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9/15/21
I have a number of local Photos albums in my iMac Home folder. What I want to do is move some of these local albums back to Photos iCloud so all my iOS devices can access them. My thinking is to create empty albums in the Photos app then copy the contents of the local albums ... (2 Comments)
9/14/21
Gary – When reviewing and editing a PDF document there are many great tools in Preview. We can add text boxes, shapes, shapes with text in them, and we can add highlights, underlines, strike-throughs, etc. What I can’t seem to do is to rotate a shape, or a shape with ... (2 Comments)
9/14/21
Over the years and since iCloud was invented, I have used 3 computers. Two of which belonged to other organizations I worked for. However, I backed everything up to iCloud. Now, I want to find documents I know I have, or slide shows I know I have, from 7 years ago, and I can find ... (1 Comment)
9/12/21
Hello all, Im new and learning, or to trying to ! I have an M1 Macbook Air running MACOS15 beta , but I think I’ve had this issue for a while. I am trying to select and highlight text in Safari but my Mac is in dark mode. after a lot of frustration I have found that dark ... (2 Comments)
9/10/21
I’m a student who writes a lot of papers. I write primarily on Scrivener, Pages, and Microsoft Word. I’ve recently switched to a Mac and I’ve been thinking about turning on iCloud, for the convenience and peace of mind of having a backup. But I’m reluctant ... (1 Comment)
9/10/21
Where is the Wallet App?
Running Monterey Beta 6. Want to add my new Apple Card to Wallet on Mac mini but can’t find it.
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Paul Knox
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