The MacMost Newsletter: Issue #588 April 9, 2020
10 Things You May Not Know You Can Do With TextEdit On a Mac TextEdit seems like a simple text editing tool, but it actually has some pretty rich features. You can do things like set document properties, edit code, define and use styles, insert images, audio and video, and even export HTML documents.
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Watch at YouTube Closing Windows Vs Quitting Apps Vs Hiding Apps If you want to get a window out of the way, you can close the window, but doing so closes the document or page without quitting the app. Quitting will get rid of all of the windows being used by that app, which will by default reappear when you launch the app again. A better option most of the time is to hide the app.
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Watch at YouTube Mac Mail App Preferences You May Want To Customize There are many important settings in Mail Preferences that you can use to customize your experience and improve productivity. Take this tour of the Mail Preferences and see which ones you should change.
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Watch at YouTube Collaborating With Shared iCloud Drive Folders A new feature of macOS 10.15.4 and the latest versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote is the ability to collaborate using shared iCloud Drive folders. Once you share a folder, you can create documents in those folders and they are instantly ready for real-time collaboration with no additional steps. This can be used to work on a whole set of files with your team over the course of a project, or permanently.
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Watch at YouTube Using the New Background Feature In Mac Pages You can now set a background color, gradient or image for sections in Pages documents. This is a new feature in the Section sidebar that makes it much easier to include a color fill or pattern behind your text.
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Watch at YouTube The Tech Enthusiast Hour Podcast: The Masked Bandit Version (and low-tech howling)The tech world quickly upgrades to online ordering for pickup, free education and every kind of human connection. We now have talk shows without audiences to neighborhood howling.
Subscribe at iTunes... Quick Tip: Hide Apps With the App Switcher When you use Command+Tab to switch apps, you can press tab while still holding down the Command key until you get to the app you want. While doing that, you may know that you can also press Q to quit the currently selected app. You can also press H to hide or unhide that app.
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