Questions tagged [text]
anything relating to text, including text editors such as TextEdit
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The text replacement option in Edit Equation window in Pages
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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How to obtain date/time stamps from received screenshots?
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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Use Shortcuts to insert preformatted text
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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Turn off predictive text-completion feature in macOS and/or Safari
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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MacOS 15.4, adjusting accessibility text size doesn't seem to do anything
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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Poor text rendering on an OLED monitor
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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How to get Shortcut to process a set of images in a folder without it pausing to ask me to manually click on each image during the shortcut?
I have multiple AppleTVs. I would like to have a slideshow running photos of the past year's adventures and display the location at the bottom left and the date taken at the bottom right corner of ...
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How to show newer unicode characters in macOS?
For instance, ▎(Left One Quarter Block, U+258E) can be shown in macOS but not ��� (Right One Quarter Block, U+1FB87), not even in the Character Viewer, or on native apps like Finder & Spotlight. ...
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Problem using Numbers Regex.Extract function
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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What’s that coloured icon with an A inside it in text?
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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How do I extract text from images in terminal?
I know how to extract text from images using preview.app, however I would like to use this feature from terminal to extract all the text from a bunch of images.
I tried this using this method to apply ...
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How can one save a file as plain text in TextEdit? [duplicate]
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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Can I use the zoom buttons in Safari's toolbar to zoom text only?
I can use the zoom buttons (AA) in Safari 17's toolbar to increase the size of every element on a page. I can also hold alt/option to increase only the page's text size in the View menu (called
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Can I select unselectable text in Safari?
I am trying to copy and paste the dimensions of this box on the USPS website in Safari.
For some mysterious reason, I am unable to do so.
Is there a way to select this text without changing browsers?
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How to disable autocorrection in Freeform?
I'm really annoyed with automatic capitalization in Freeform, for example here I tried to type "yes" 4 times before I finally got "Yes":
Clicking that cross with mouse require you ...
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