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.6/10/21
Im a coach for a football team. Every day we train we plan our session in a numbers sheet. Same sheet every day. Now, instead of printing it and keeping the paper, I would like to record some statistics in the document for the remaining season. Every training we have some sort of ... (1 Comment)
6/5/21
I have followed the directions as best that I am able but I am still not getting the results. I am trying to install Apple Chancery such that I can use the font in pages.
The font is no longer greyed out in the Font Book and I can find the Chancery font in something called ... (2 Comments)
6/4/21
I imported an excel file into numbers that contains data with names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. The names and addresses are all capitalized and I would like to change them to Title Case. I was able to change the case with Format/Font/Capitalization and I can see the data is ... (1 Comment)
6/3/21
I was ill advised not to update my computer a long time ago! Now, of course it is very out of date and I would like to update it as far as I can.
It is an iMac (21.5 inch, late 2013)
Processor – 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory – 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Model identifier ... (2 Comments)
6/2/21
I have a MacBook Pro running Catalina and a Photos library. I also have an iMac running Catalina with an empty Photos library. I want to have the same Photos library on both computers. How can I do this?
I simply want the same library on both computers.
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Jack Towl
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6/2/21
Hi Gary
I live in a large house here in the south west of England and I have been using a Time Capsule as my router together with 2 Airport Extremes and 2 Airport Express’s for quite a number of years. I have reasonable wifi but not as good as I’d like it to be.
I ... (4 Comments)
6/1/21
Can Numbers determine the current day of the year and the remaining days in the year for a given date?
Example
A2 = 06/01/2021
B2 = 152 (day of the year based on cell A2)
C2 = 213 (remaining days in the year based on cell A1)
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Jessica
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5/31/21
Keychain: I want to know why my Mac will not automatically fill in my Apple ID password when I am downloading an app from the app store, nor will does it seem to store my Apple ID password, such that I can find it when I do a search of Keychain,and, finally, when I create a new ... (3 Comments)
5/31/21
Hi, with failing eyesight I would like to make the blinking text cursor more prominent. I viewed Gary’s video on cursors and can change to arrow cursor but not the one I want.
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Margaret
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5/29/21
Appreciate the recent post regarding creating a Shortcut to show a vaccination card, thank you. Is there a way to do the same with a local-only file? I.e. no iCloudDrive and no Dropbox, the scanned file is local on iPhone only. In the action GetFile tapping to turn off ... (3 Comments)
5/28/21
Probably one of the most confusing and counterintuitive things that happens on my Macs takes place when I use my browser (Safari) to log into iCloud.com.
It seems that the login is asking for my Apple ID and password. Auto-filling the Apple ID address, the box to enter the ... (2 Comments)
5/27/21
When the Time Machine drive is full and deletes the oldest stuff to make room, does it take into consideration whether you have only one backup of a file?
Example:
Time Machine’s oldest backup is on 1/1/2021, and on that date it backed up files A, B, and C.
As time goes on, ... (1 Comment)
5/26/21
Is there a way to show the titles of files when I put them into the My Media section of iMovie when working on a project?
This could be helpful when I shoot multiple short files at around the same time, mostly looking the same at the beginning of each clip (ex. when I video our ... (2 Comments)
5/25/21
My wife and I have watched the Macmost Youtube video, “How To Remove All Copies Of a File From Time Machine (#1690). We cannot find the Action command to delete all Timemachine file backups. The “Gear” does not show up. There is an “Action” menu, ... (10 Comments)
5/23/21
Somehow I have an icon of a hard drive named Macintosh HD on my desktop…… I do not know how it got there but can I delete it?
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Ron P
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5/22/21
Sir, Please help. I am writing my Ph.D Thesis. I am having problem with Table of Contents. All headings are not showing up in TOC Sidebar. Though, when I insert Table of Content on a page as Text, all heading are appearing correctly. But I need correct Sidebar for moving here and ... (3 Comments)
5/22/21
How good or bad is it if I keep the personal hotspot of my iPhone 12 Pro Max “on” all the time or at least for long durations of time say more than 2 hours continuously. I assume it will drain out the battery faster and make the iPhone hot etc. How will that affect ... (3 Comments)
5/21/21
Hi
I do a lot of repetitive tasks on a daily basis such as uploading using the Finder…. I keep on uploading from the same directory (Downloads)
Can I expect to return to the last directory opened when I open the Finder?
If so, why does it sometimes default to ... (2 Comments)
5/21/21
Is there a formula to calculate dates? For example, if you enter a start date, can you then calculate out what date it is 3 days after the start date, 10 days, 20 days?
Setting up a tracking system for honeybee queen rearing. Different actions need to be taken on different days ... (1 Comment)
5/21/21
Question: If you delete a photo out of your Library (also in iCloud), and the photo is stored in an album, with the photo be deleted from the album also?
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Ken
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