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.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.
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Aubrey El
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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.
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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
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Bob
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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.
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Victor R.
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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)
6/24/21
I have my rather large vinyl collection entered into numbers. I used this INDEX(TABLE 1::F1:F2020,RANDBETWEEN(1,2020)) to create a random play generator. Now, I would like to take this a step further. I want to filter my library by year of release (which I can already do), and ... (1 Comment)
6/24/21
I keep up to date with all my podcasts, deleting viewed ones as I go along. However the amount of storage being used by podcasts on my iPad is extremely large at 1.3 Gb. Why is this and how do I control it?
Thanks,
Peter Hardaker
Podcasts is taking up a disproportionate amount of ... (4 Comments)
6/22/21
How do I edit the name of a folder – or delete a folder – in NOTES?
I’m trying to organize my NOTES, but I am unable to edit or delete folders in that app.
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Simon Young
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6/22/21
Hi, Does anyone know if you can sort a shopping list in Notes? I checked the ‘automatically sort ticked items’, and that’s doesn’t work?
Reason: because it’s easier to find items when they’re sort in alphabetical order.
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Ian Rogers
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6/22/21
Is there a way to stop Mail marking a message as Read just because it has the focus after an adjacent message has been deleted?
There is nothing in the Mail Preferences that seems relevant.
I like to skim through unread messages and delete those of no interest. However, this ... (7 Comments)
6/17/21
Is there some kind of strip outlet box that I can plug my computer and other things into so that if there is a power outage my computer won’t shut off?
Thanks Gary.
I live in Florida and we have many power outages and that’s why a box like I’m suggesting would ... (2 Comments)
6/17/21
In my Apple ID account, I am using my email from an ISP (created ten years ago) as the Apple-ID. Now thought of creating an iCloud email for my wife, and did so. But I did not understand, that you can only add one mail account there (plus three alias linked to that one as well). ... (1 Comment)
6/17/21
I use an iMac (3Tb) with a Time Machine hard drive (6Tb) and I have recently started to use iCloud (2Tb). I have a lot of photos (42,000+) in Photos taken over many years and I wish to keep taking more…
I have recently found hundreds of much older family photos (divided ... (2 Comments)
6/14/21
I have 3 email accounts that I use on my Mac.
What I am trying to do is set a Rule so that any mail over 90 days is automatically deleted. Every time I try I end up removing everything or nothing happens. I have now removed all my attempts.
Any suggestions welcome.
I am doing ... (2 Comments)
6/11/21
How can I add a suffix to the formula result in a cell. So I have
Cell a1 “Total Steel KG”, Cell b1 “1200”
Cell a2 “Total area Sq. Ft., ” Cell b2 ” 800″
Cell a3 ... (1 Comment)
6/10/21
When using FileVault, and you are logging in, is your login password also the key that decrypts FileVault? And if that’s true, when you turn FileVault on, does it use your login password to seed the encryption? And if that is also true, does it mean that the longer and more ... (1 Comment)
