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How can I have the text replacement option enabled by default in Edit Equation window in Pages? When I create a new equation or start editing an existing one in Pages, the Edit Equation window comes ...
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Trying to figure out if there’s a way to view/obtain date, and time stands for screenshots of text conversations & photos sent from another iPhone user, to myself. It’s obviously not in the GPS ...
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I need help with the following Apple Numbers REGEX.EXTRACT formula that doesn’t return the word before a dot. Below are the text form of the arguments passed to the formula and the formula itself as ...
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I'm currently using Pages to write a rather long essay and have run into an annoying problem I can't seem to find the answer to. I have included a bibliography in my document and have referenced the ...
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I have to send daily text messages to my management team. How do I run a shortcut to insert/paste pre-formatted text into a message?
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The question Type straight quotes (",') when smart quotes is turned on answers this quite well for macOS, but the solution (using a text replacement with the straight quote as the replacement ...
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iOS 14 - I stopped receiving text notifications while on a phone call. How do I get the text notifications back?
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I was using speech recognition to send a message in WhatsApp, and when I said “multiplied by” this sign appeared: I can’t remember seeing this symbol on the default iOS keyboards, so I wonder if there ...
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In modern versions of macOS, I see the following gray AI machine learning predictive text / text completion while typing in Safari textfields: With lots of tabs open or in large textfields this ...
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I have just upgraded my Mac to macOS 14 Sonoma, and noticed a little icon appearing in text if I wait long enough. The icon looks like this: with the colour depending on the application. It only ...
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I'm not seeing an option to choose plain text encoding (.TXT extension) when saving a file in TextEdit.app in macOS. My documents seem to all be rtf - rich text format. How can I change this?
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Given a text with a link inside: Prior to iOS 13, i could long press a word that was not part of the URL to select the word, then drag the finger over a word in the URL to select only that word of the ...
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I just upgraded to a 4K monitor. I'm trying to get the text size to be larger and the menu larger via the "Accessibility > Display" Text size setting. No matter what size I set it to, ...
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I have a contact with whom I share text messages from two different phone numbers. How can I distinguish the two text conversations? Right now, it labels them identically with Full Name at the top, ...
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I am new to modern Macs. I connected my PG49WCD OLED monitor to a M4 Mac mini via HDMI. I think the monitor has an unusual subpixel layout. All text is rendered in a very distracting way that looks ...
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