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.12/16/22
Is it possible to change the Options for Guided Access as per your recent ‘Short’ video? I set Guided Access up but didn’t correctly turn off all the options in line with your short tutorial. Can I reset Guided Access and start again for example so I can select ... (6 Comments)
12/12/22
A user name is usually requested when setting up general online accounts, using ones email is a common practice. Is there a better or more secure practice?
In process of changing to a new email address, found that it might’ve been better if I didn’t use my email as ... (1 Comment)
12/11/22
Hi, I know how to add “Accessibility” ((Preference Pane) to the Dock. Is it possible to add just the “Voice Control” from “Accessibly” to the Dock? Thnaks Robbie
I have some vision problems and it would be less steps to have Voice Control in ... (5 Comments)
12/10/22
Can you somehow have dictation avoid certain words in a vocabulary? When I recently sent a typical Dad comment to daughter like…”Buck up there sweetheart”, Apple’s fine repertoire came up with an alternate to the word “buck” and it’s not ... (2 Comments)
12/9/22
I have been using Photos for many years now. I have a client that uploads her videos to a Shared Folder in Photos and I used to be able to export “the unmodified original” in Photos 3 and it retained the creation date. Thankfully, I still have a copy that I can use, ... (8 Comments)
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)
