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Where is my Library Folder?
Question I am trying to follow some instructions on my Macintosh. It is telling me to go to my user folder and then the library folder. But, it’s not there? Answer You must have upgraded to Lion. Lion’s operating system hides some important folders including your user’s library folder. Presumably, it is to prevent you…
Return Receipt for Mail.app on Macintosh
Question Is there a way to know that someone has opened your email using Mail on my Macintosh? Answer There are a couple of ways. Sign up for a service First, you can sign up for a service that will monitor your mail. I don’t have any specific recommendations, but you can google “return receipt…
Multiple Employees Working on a Single Excel File
Question What is the best way to allow multiple employees to access and alter a single Excel workbook? We have tried Dropbox in the past, but have had problems. Answer I would use Google Docs. You can work on shared Word documents and Excel documents online and it’s free! You start by uploading or creating…
Where can I find an online design course?
Question I have a quick question that I hope you can answer, or at least provide me some direction. I would like to take an online course that could teach me some design basics. Not necessarily software, but just tips like how to balance elements on a page, what size fonts to use in relation…
Paper Lesson
Over the weekend I was cleaning out my office and found this great little cheat sheet I created years ago for understanding paper types as explained by one of my printing mentors, Jon Anderson. Paper weight The weight of a paper is determined by how much a ream (500 sheets) weighs in the basis size….
Excel: How to easily join text columns with a formula!
Say someone sends you an Excel document and you while they gave you lots of columns of information, you really need some of those columns joined. Let’s say you also don’t want to merge them permanently. You can do it with an easy formula! This is also called “concatenation” and can be found in the…
Mac Mail: How to add addresses from Mail to your Address Book in Bulk
Question I have “mail” and “contacts” on my mac. I know there are email addresses that my Mail program recognizes and will auto populate when I begin typing them that are not in my contacts. I desire to get those addresses in my contacts file or download them in some way so I can add…
What is this anonymous Twitter database on my iPad?
Question On my iPad, under Safari/settings/databases, there was an entry from mobile.twitter.com with the name anonymous. I don’t Twitter, never have, and don’t understand how that entry could have gotten there given the descriptions and my understanding of how the databases are supposed to work. In short, how does a person that doesn’t use Twitter or…
Is Streaming Netflix with Your Apple TV 2 Leaving You Hanging?
We love Netflix. We love being able to stream it over our iPad, iPhone, and Apple T.V. 2. However, as of late we keep running into programs and movies just hanging every few minutes on the Apple TV. This is not the joyful experience I am accustomed to. After doing some digging, we found some…
Editing a Field in Excel: Mac vs Windows
Question I am working in Excel on my MacBook and editing my Christmas card list. On a PC, I could hit the F2 button to immediately be able to edit the field I was in. Is there a shortcut on a Mac for that? Answer CONTROL+U is the new F2 when you’re using Excel with a…