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.12/8/22
I found that SMS was turned off on my iPhone. After I turned it on I was able to send Messages to an Android phone. When I tried to send a message from my iPad it didn’t work and I could find NO setting to turn SMS ON. How can I send a message to my son who uses a Samsung ... (17 Comments)
12/8/22
I want to have all the folders I’ve set up in my Apple Mail be saved to iCloud so that I can access those saved folders from any Apple device – MacBook Air and IOS phones.
Example, on my present iMac desktop Catalina late 2013 production, I have hundreds of folders ... (5 Comments)
12/7/22
Excel has a feature that allows you to take a formula and convert it to text (copy and paste as a value) and I can’t find it in Numbers.
Trying to convert a value like “2022.12.04 07:50 AM” to date format 12/04/2022. I’ve used the functions CONCATENATE, ... (1 Comment)
12/6/22
I am trying to print mailing labels. The labels are printing Last Name and First Name. I like to print Fist Name and then Last Name. In the setting I have it setup First Name but it still prints the labels wrong.
Why is Mailing label print Last Name first then First Name ... (2 Comments)
12/5/22
Hi! Is there any way to link from text to an image within the same Pages document? Can I click on a text and be redirected to an image?
Thanks :)
I want the images to be at the end of my text and I want the reader to click on a word and be redirected to the image, like a ... (2 Comments)
12/4/22
Using Ventura can I request all multiple duplicates to be merged with one command in place of individually merging two or three duplicates together?
I have over 50.000 duplicates. I just want to the photos app to merger all duplicates with one action.
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Tom C.
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12/3/22
I edit my photos in Photos. Is there a way to mass edit a group of photos? I find that when I’m editing a group of wildlife pics, I make some of the same adjustments on all of the pics. It would save time to be able to make the same edits all at once.
I would like to ... (1 Comment)
12/3/22
How do you spread text across multiple columns? I have five columns and I want a universal header centered and spread across all those columns.
In this example, “Samsung TV Auto Equalizer On” does not spread as below but fills a single column.
Channel ... (1 Comment)
12/3/22
I am trying to show with a formula in a collumn the corresponding values of 2 other values from another collumn
An update concerning my previous question about this topic.
My database is about tables that has codes that corresponds/translates with a name/title.
In some ... (1 Comment)
12/2/22
I have a Mac-Mini running Catalina.
This system was provided to me so that I can test a recently developed utility for some custom hardware I have designed. My customer wants me to verify that this utility works in Big Sur and Monterey. I can see that it is pretty ... (1 Comment)
12/2/22
How do I switch apps in stage manager using keyboard?
Should be self-explanatory. I am trying to learn, by practice, the keyboard shortcuts for macOS Ventura and apps I use most frequently (Notes, Safari, Calendar, etc.)
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Will Carter
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12/1/22
HI, I am trying to transfer files (original music) for a friend from a Tascam DP-03 digital recorder to a new MacBook Air M2. I connected them via rca out of the Tascam to usb on the MacBook. I was told someone else had previously done this for him, exactly this way, on a ... (1 Comment)
11/29/22
I have several Folders containing lots of info on subjects I no longer use but want to keep for possible referral to in the future. Is there a way to ‘separate’ these folders so that are not included when doing a search?
The items in these folders contain a lot of ... (1 Comment)
11/19/22
I wish to create a keyboard shortcut that will select “Export To” and then “PDF…” from the resulting drop down menu. Is there a way to do that?
I often save Pages documents as PDF files and then share them via email with people who don’t have ... (2 Comments)
11/19/22
I’m trying to get organised.
(Yeah, right!)
Will be making way more photos and videos in the future, but have loads already.
I have dedicated two external hard drives to photos and videos, one to each.
And two internal folders, photos and videos.
What I would like to do, is ... (3 Comments)
11/18/22
As Apple has made lots of improvements to iCloud storage, has anyone who currently uses (or has formerly used) Dropbox pivoted to using only iCloud in the same capacity? If so what are the pros and cons?
I have been a long time user of Dropbox but over the last few years I see it ... (6 Comments)
11/17/22
I’m trying to order groceries online using the Giant Food Stores app. Recently I’m not able to get into the app and select my groceries. The Giant Food Stores app appears, however, my account does not load. I see white rectangles on the spaces where item’s ... (5 Comments)
11/17/22
I would like to make a letterhead template that has the letterhead header only on page 1, but the footer is on all following pages, no matter how many pages I create. So it would be a word processing doc, I think, so that the text flows from page to page. The problem I hit is ... (3 Comments)
11/16/22
I have been using the Photos app, but not using iCloud Photo. I have my System Photo Library, and I also have an “archive” photo library that includes older photos on an external drive. When necessary to use an older photo, I choose the archive library with the Option ... (2 Comments)
11/11/22
A leftie in search of a mouse for my iMac. Not a gamer. Suggestions?
My old Microsoft Optical Intellimouse is malfunctioning. Seek a good alternative. Must work with left hand.
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Will
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