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  • 2 years

    External display remains on after closing lid even without peripherals

    I don’t have a mouse or keyboard connnected so I don’t think I should be entering clamshell mode.
    When I shut the lid of the laptop, the display remains on and doesn’t lock either. Reopening the lid of the laptop doesn’t ask me for a password either, even though I have the setting to ask for password immediately on. Eventually it starts the screensaver...

  • 4 years

    Always start the Mac to Startup Manager without having to press and hold the Opt...

    I frequently switch between mac OS and Bootcamp.
    So I was wondering if there is an option to not have a preferred Startup Disk and always start to the Startup Manager, like you would get when pressing the option key while booting.
    Google couldn’t help so your support is much appreciated....

  • 0 days

    Circular reference error when using ROWS with an indirect reference to another t...

    Recent releases of Mac numbers (15.0 and 14.4) contain enhanced (or degraded, depending on your point of view) dependency checking for INDIRECT references.
    The following works in all releases, using Table 1 and Table 2:
    Table 1:A1 ROWS(Table 2:A)

  • 2 years

    How to set a SMS sender to be a known sender in Messages?

    How do you set a sender of an SMS message to be a known sender?
    If it is a plain phone number you can hit the info button and add to contacts sometimes. But this does not work always - I have senders e.g. my bank and my doctor that do not show a phone number just a code. I ask this now as iPhone Messages now puts...

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