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.3/11/21
If I have a site, such as a page in google docs and I want to copy the address it is very long and involved. (ex. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_TSeKRvU8XU7gfU90cUsSiFfSDlQqWV97W_bQA9Smo/edit?ts=xxxxxxxx). How can I create a shortcut so it just comes up with a simple ... (3 Comments)
3/11/21
Is it possible to link a cell to another random cell that is within a certain range? For example, if I have a table labeled “Cards” that has 52 cells (Let’s say it has a single column (A) and 52 rows). Then I have a cell in a different table that table that I ... (1 Comment)
3/11/21
When I am trying to create an equation where a row of numbers is multiplied or added to a specific cell.
ie (f13*G12) and then try to drag to autofill the remaining numbers what happens is (F14*G13, F15*G14…..)
Where I want F14*G12, F15*G12….
I want to have as ... (1 Comment)
3/6/21
I am trying to create a colour scale on Numbers like I can on excel or google sheets.
Example:
I have the percentiles 0% to 100% in a column. I want to create a scale where the colours go from different shades of pink (0%) to different shades of blue up to ... (1 Comment)
3/6/21
Years ago, I was able to change the icon of my folders. Recently, I went to change a folder icon (from Get Info option). I can no longer just “drop” a new icon into the preview. I haven’t done this in a long time and I had all files with new icons prior to ... (2 Comments)
3/6/21
I am on my MacBook Pro browsing and writing emails in Gmail. My wife is on my iPad writing emails in Apple Mail. As she cuts and pastes it appears on my Mac. How can I disable it? I suspect if she signed out of iCloud it might work but I prefer not to do that.
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John ... (1 Comment)
3/6/21
Semi new to FCP. I created a folder on my desktop to put all media that I would like to import in FCP (video, photo, music, sound effects) then created Library, Events and Project in FCP. I imported the folder contents into events. I completed FCP project. I then dragged the ... (3 Comments)
3/5/21
I would like to ‘password protect’ a TextEdit document on my Mac.
I have a TextEdit document that contains sensative personnel information. I want to ‘password protect’ it on my Mac, so that only I can open it.
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Vince Smith
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3/4/21
How do I move a file to a different position within a folder?
I keep a Turbo tax and a PDF copy of each years taxes in my Turbo tax Folder and in one instance they are seperated by several other files
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Frank McCarthy
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3/4/21
* What is the keyboard shortcut for 1/2?
* What is the keyboard shortcut for 3/4?
* What is the keyboard shortcut for the symbol ‘divide’?
* What is the keyboard shortcut for the symbol ‘degrees.’ as in degrees Fahrenheit?
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Florina
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3/3/21
I had asked you some questions earlier about using Mac passwords off a a video you had recently done. You suggested that I review your security class on Udemy. Well I did as you suggested and would absolutely believe that it is the first course that any new Mac owner must ... (1 Comment)
3/3/21
Hi…I am copying files to an external drive. I pressed something on the keyboard and the progress bar window has disappeared. now I can’t tell the progress
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Judy
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3/3/21
I’m trying to type a quotation mark, “, but it keeps coming up as a small ... (2 Comments)
2/27/21
If possible, how to, enable similar to: Reader function in Mac Safari, in Mac Mail?
To obtain the Mac Reader function, less strain of my eyes
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Beff
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2/25/21
On a recent Mac Power Users podcast, they said when using iCloud to store your files, you should right click on a folder and select “Download All” to ensure that the files in folder are all downloaded to the Mac as well as also being in iCloud. But when I right click ... (1 Comment)
2/25/21
What is an easy way of entering fractions? I’ve searched every resource and haven’t found an answer… Thanks in advance! 😊
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Ron
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2/23/21
Greetings, I’m a newbie to the macOS as a long-time user of Windows.
I have been watching your youtube videos, during the time when my device was still shipping to at least prep myself for the new OS that I’ll be using, and I can’t quite recall if it was from ... (1 Comment)
2/21/21
I have four devices (1 iphone, 2 ipads, 1 iMac) all of them using one mobile phone number, the one of the iphone.
If my son wants to establish a facetime session he may want to be connected to one of my devices and not to all others.
Is there a way to do this? (Maybe something ... (2 Comments)
2/19/21
I am a new MacBook Air (Intel) owner and this function I’m trying to fix is my machine automatically re-opening all previously opened apps & services from last session, when I’d rather start from all closed & open manually. I recall this was a prompt ... (6 Comments)
2/19/21
I have a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro and I’m using an external keyboard with a numberpad (Keychron K1).
I’m trying to take a snip screenshot with shift+command+4 but the shortcut only works with the “4” key located above the letter keys and not the numberpad ... (1 Comment)
