MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

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.


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1/7/19
I would like to be able to select a string of text in Pages and use a shortcut to enclose it with quotes without typing a quote at the beginning of the string, moving to the end of string, typing the end quote. Same for parentheses and brackets. Maybe using ... (4 Comments)
1/5/19
My financial program (Banktivity) can’t import CSV files and one of my financial sites only provides CSV file downloads. Is there a way in Numbers to change a CSV file to another format requiring only a moderate amount of effort? —– Colleen Smitherman ... (3 Comments)
1/1/19
I want to create a Numbers file that has two columns of cells. The first column, “column one” will have a cell for each individual in our organization. When I create the second column, it will accurately reflect the number of days each individual in column one has ... (2 Comments)
12/31/18
I have 2009 imac running El Capitan. A few years ago, I migrated my iphoto library to photos. Everything fine. Can I now delete both the iphoto library (about 23 GB) and the iphoto app (about 2 GB)? I spoke to Apple rep, and he said it’s OK to delete. But, I’ve ... (1 Comment)
12/27/18
A while back you posted an amazing tutorial on being able to simply drag a pdf thumbnail from Preview into Apple Pages. I did that for long time but have noticed since a recent upgrade on my Mac, I’m no longer able to do this drag? Message says something like no such file ... (5 Comments)
12/27/18
i am useing the latest Mojave i am dislexic and light sensative but I need it to be blue not black. —– Justine Newport ... (4 Comments)
12/27/18
I have plant photos that I would like to reference to different folders such as “location”, “family” and “date”. Too much info to put in the title. —– roy ... (1 Comment)
12/27/18
iMac 21.5 inch, late 2015. Mojave 10.14.2. I can delete Front End Agent (MalwareBytes) from Notifications, but it automatically comes right back. —– Don Palmer ... (2 Comments)
12/27/18
The previous owner of my macbook pro worked for a school and did not fully wipe before selling to me. There are still restrictions on some things. The most frustrating are installing chrome extensions and connecting to iCloud. I have administrative rights but no idea where these ... (5 Comments)
12/25/18
My wife and I share App Store purchases using a family account. We’re both using the latest versions of Mojave. I’m the designated owner of the family account. Most of the time it works well. However, sometimes when she is notified of an update to an app that we ... (1 Comment)
12/23/18
I am using Handbrake and am getting a message that there is not enough space availabe on my startup disk and I must delete files. How do I delete and/or reduce the size of my startup disk. For the life of me I can not get to the disk information window so I can establish the ... (2 Comments)
12/23/18
I’m working on a Pages project for someone based on a Word document. Within the Word document, there is a text box with a simple table, along with some regular text, inside of it. In Pages, when I put my cursor inside the text box and select “Table” from the ... (1 Comment)
12/21/18
On my mac, I just put in my initials and my email address appears. I would like to be able to do the same on my iPhone —– John ... (2 Comments)
12/21/18
Can 3 monitors be connected to a Mac Pro (late 2013] ? I can get two monitors working with no problems, but when I try to add a third monitor it doesn’t get a signal – turn on. I’ve tried everything; it’s not the cable, and it’s not the busing or plugging array ... (5 Comments)
12/20/18
After I have transferred my photo from my camera to my iPad when on holiday. How can I send complete file from iPad to Mac pc into a file. —– Terry Reynolds ... (3 Comments)
12/20/18
My documents always use a dark background since using Mojave. How do I change back to a normal light background? —– Dick Vitales ... (1 Comment)
12/19/18
In keynote I do know that you can make a link on a slide to another slide or webpage. but can you make a link to another presentation either in keynote or powerpoint. In other words can you start a keynote or powerpoint presentation from within a ... (1 Comment)
12/17/18
Address book defaults to All addresses when printing envelopes and labels. Is there a way to permanently change that default to home address? It is very rare that I would want to create an envelope for all of a contacts addresses for an entire group of my ... (4 Comments)
12/17/18
I go into Mail click on “Add Account”, choose “iCloud” as the account provider, then “Continue”. Enter my Apple ID and click “next”, then my password. The iCloud panel is displayed with my Apple iCloud account name on the top. I ... (5 Comments)
12/16/18
How do I make all the icon size the same throughout the system? I am using icon view. When I go through the show view option it only changes the size of the icon in the folder I am currently in but I want to it to be the same with every folder. —– Jake ... (1 Comment)