MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

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.


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7/16/21
What version of flash player will work with Big Sur ? where to download it ? Because the latest update to Big Sur has erased the Flash Player which is needed to view content online. —– Visi ... (1 Comment)
7/15/21
I would like an app that would beep alerting me to when the CAPS LOCK key is pressed. Doe something exist for this? I hate typing a line or a paragraph and then look at the screen and see it is in all caps when I accidentally hit the caps lock key. —– Hank Chiuppi ... (2 Comments)
7/12/21
When I need to do a presentation (w/o wifi), I always turn off my WiFi and shut off my VPN and my Dropbox and Google Drive programs to conserve battery power during my presentation. My question: Is there a way to set up a macro so that one click will accomplish all of that ... (1 Comment)
7/11/21
Hi Gary, any chance you can do a video on how to select items say for example in photos as I struggle to recall how to click multiple pics that are not in a row or pick like 3in a row then some from another sequence. Just confuses me.. Thanks. struggling to select items in photos ... (1 Comment)
7/9/21
I’m trying to set a daily reminder for only weekdays. I want to set a reminder to go pick up our son at daycare every weekday afternoon. However I cannot find any options to select multiple specific days for repeating reminders. I’ve tried on both my Mac running Big ... (6 Comments)
7/9/21
I have an iMac with connected USB drive(s). I’d like to access these connected drives from my MacBook Air over my home network. Using the MacBook I can connect to folders on the iMac internal drive but can’t seem to connect to the usb drives. “go to server” shows the ... (9 Comments)
7/9/21
How do I add rows in between rows without having go inserting one row at a time? —– James ... (6 Comments)
7/8/21
What app can I use/purchase to edit my photos to create eg art , water-colour look , comic etc on my Mac Book . I kn ow there are apps like this for my iPad but these do not work on a Mac book pro —– Daniela ... (3 Comments)
7/7/21
Choosing share on a file doesn’t allow sharing to reminders. Choosing more shows reminders as selected. I my example the file is a pdf invoice that I want a reminder to pay. —– Miles ... (2 Comments)
7/6/21
How do I set default Finder setting to always open with more than 1 Tab? I am always using multiple Finder tabs at the same time as this is quicker & easier. At the moment I have to manually add the extra tabs I need each time I open Finder but it would be even better if ... (1 Comment)
7/6/21
I am so use to Google maps. From what I gather Apple maps is vastly improved. Apple doesn’t collect my data. I would love to find a tutorial. I plotted my trip on my Mac but couldn’t figure how to transfer it to my iPhone. —– Steven Wolf ... (1 Comment)
7/4/21
How can I navigate from the screen to the Dock without the necessity of using the mouse to click on the Dock and selecting and application? The when working on projects one has to take hands off of keyboard to mouse and back. —– Aubrey El ... (1 Comment)
7/1/21
Is it possible to use my personal MacBook Pro as a secondary monitor to my company MacBook Air via SideCar or some other option?… I’m on the road so away from my doc at home w/ external monitor but it sure would be nice to have a secondary monitor while I work on the ... (1 Comment)
6/29/21
I open my emoji “keyboard“ using the language and keyboard icon on the taskbar at the top right of my screen. However, it only lets me enter one emoji at a time at which point the emoji “keyboard” disappears from the screen. If I want to use multiple emojis in any ... (3 Comments)
6/28/21
I’ve copied a table (2 columns, 8 rows) from numbers to Pages and would like to change the table to text (loose the table format). I want to be able to use the formatting (columns, sections, page breaks) options offered by pages to format the data. —– John ... (1 Comment)
6/28/21
Is there a way to add a document to my WALLET app on my iPhone? I would like to put my Covid Vaccination card photo in my Wallet —– Bob ... (11 Comments)
6/28/21
Hi. I’m trying to create YouTube video descriptions by using the CONCATENATE function in Numbers on my Macbook Pro. I have one sheet where different parameters are entered, and a second sheet that will build the video descriptions by concatenating those values. I ... (3 Comments)
6/26/21
So, every once in a while, when my Mac Book Pro is sleeping, I’ll hear a default notification type sound come from the machine. I’ll look at the mail, check Reminders, Calendar events, and the Notification screen and see nothing on any of them. Any suggestions on how ... (1 Comment)
6/25/21
I have music that I have ripped on Mac Big Sur Music app and would like to export only the files to an external drive. I want to save space on the internal drive. —– Victor R. ... (1 Comment)
6/25/21
I want to use a HomePod on my backyard deck. Moving the Modem/Router any closer to the backyard HomePod is not an option. Do WiFi extenders work? How much distance do they, on average, get you? My iPhone WiFi is challenged when I use it on the back deck too. It might also be ... (1 Comment)