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23 responses so far ↓
1 Stephen Heywood // Jan 7, 2007 at 11:05 am
Hi Maria,
PEACHPIT PRESS QUERY
I am a Mac owner and user but am also familiar and comfortable with Windows and it’s menus etc.
I want to buy a book to help me with Excel and have thumbed through your book ‘Microsoft Office Excel 2003 for Windows’ which looks ideal except that it isn’t for Mac (athough I could use it).The back of this book has an appendix that references all the formula functions in Excel giving a brief description of each.Can you tell me if the same appendix (listing all formulas) exists at the end of your ‘Excel X for Mac OS X’ which I have been unable to view and would obviously prefer.
Thanking you in advance.
2 lee l. McFarland // Jan 8, 2007 at 2:28 pm
have your quickstart guide for panther.Purchased office:mac 2004. previous experience was Dos 3.2 and Lotus 123.What book do you recomend?
3 Maria Langer // Jan 9, 2007 at 7:12 am
Lee, If you like the Visual QuickStart Guide format, there are a number of VQSes that might meet your needs. Obviously, I’d love you to buy my Word 2004 VQS, but we didn’t revise the Excel title for that version of Word. There’s also an Office VQS by another author. Visit the Peachpit Web site’s VQS selection to see what might meet your needs.
Stephen, Unfortunately, I’ve been out of my office for the past 6 days and have not had a chance to peek at the Appendix for the book you’re asking about. Give me another day or two to get back to you. Sorry!
4 Maria Langer // Jan 10, 2007 at 10:58 am
Stephen, I just checked my author copy and yes, it does include that Appendix.
If you have additional questions about my Excel books, please take them to the Q&A topic for those books. You can find it at http://www.marialanger.com/2006/01/01/q-a-2/
5 M Kalman // Feb 2, 2007 at 10:35 am
Hi Maria!
Have your Mac OS X Tiger book here. Question is:
I have new mac intel OS X .4 Tiger as per your book.
Have a teaching application IntegradePro 9.2 which ran on the old emac OS X.3 sysem.
Can I run it on the macintel by installing classic ? I have received various answers but would like something definitive. Do the macintel computers no longer run classic 9 ?
Is there a work around so the program can be used ? Your tiger book does not say whether it refers to old mac or macitel chip.
Many thanks in advance.
6 Maria Langer // Feb 3, 2007 at 8:12 am
Here’s the definitive answer:
“The Classic environment is not supported on Intel-based Macintosh computers.”
see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh868.html
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!
7 Errol Cossey // Mar 11, 2007 at 12:49 pm
I have a PowerBook G4 with Mac OS version 10.4.8. How can I password protect a folder
8 Maria Langer // Mar 11, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Errol, I don’t know of any way to do that with what Apple provides in Mac OS X 10.4. However, you might try a third-party utility to help out. Go to http://www.macupdate.com and search for “password-protect folder” to see a list of software that might provide a solution. Good luck!
9 Jeremy // Mar 12, 2007 at 9:58 am
Hi Maria,
I purchased your book ( Mac Os X Tiger 10.4 ) thinking it cover every single detail on Mac OS. It’s has clarity and is concise. To my suprise. I read a paragraph stating that ” Although this book is over 700 pages long, it doesn’t cover everything single aspect of using Mac OX’.
Do you mean that there will be a part 2 which contain more detail? Or perhaps for advance stages or to download from your website?
To advise.
Cheers, Jeremy Soo
10 Jeremy // Mar 12, 2007 at 10:14 am
Hi Maria,
I purchased a imac 2 months ago. The current imac has more function and applications fixtures compare to those during 2005.
1) Does the Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 book which was published in 2005 cover most of the detail?
2) Where can I find those info?
3) Can I find it on your new book? ( Mac OS X Leopard Sneak Peek - To be published on April 07 )
Cheers, Jeremy Soo
11 Maria Langer // Mar 12, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Jeremy, NO BOOK covers every single feature of Mac OS X. And I really do mean that. An author could never finish a book that covered all the features because there are so many features. To make things more difficult, Apple keeps adding more features or making minor changes to existing features with every update. But I think my book covers all of the most widely used features.
This site has additional articles that build on the book’s content. But there won’t be a part 2 to the Tiger book. I’m working on a Leopard book now, but it’s not the “Sneak Peek” book you referenced in your comment. I’ve never heard of that book.
Hope this helps.
12 Elizabeth // Apr 1, 2007 at 3:17 pm
I’m reading the chapter about Sherlock in Mac OS X Tiger. On page 400 you state that a revised version of pages 400 and 401 (about the Pictures Channel) will be available on your website. I am unable to find it. Was the revised version ever written?
13 Maria Langer // Apr 1, 2007 at 4:06 pm
No, those pages were not written. Pictures and Phone Book were subsequently removed from Sherlock in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. By that time, the book had gone to the printer.
14 Tee // Jun 8, 2007 at 1:49 am
my ISP is verizon.net. At this point, I can only send outgoing mail thru Aol
which I kept as a free service. Is it possible to send outgoing mail thru .mac? How do I go about doing so.
Thanks,
Tee
15 scott // Jun 11, 2007 at 1:17 pm
hi i just got your mac osx 10.4 tiger book as a gift of my girlreind and just wanted to say its very very good it helped a great deal as i have just got a mac book as i have heard good things about the mac and was fed up with all the problems i have had with my pc. your book has really helped with getting to use it. great book well done and well put together……scott.
16 John // Jun 13, 2007 at 2:20 am
Hi there! Just wanted to say what an excellent book. The one thing that is still puzzling me is that my PC will not add a shared Mac to its network places. With regard to firewalls, both machines are in trusted groups, folders have correct permissions etc. But when I enter the address “\\xxx.xxx.x.x\username” my PC tells me that the folder I entered does not appear to be valid. The account I want to access does not have administration privileges.
Anyway, thanks again for such a great book!
17 Maria Langer // Jun 18, 2007 at 7:07 am
Tee, if you’re talking about settings within Mail, set the outgoing (SMTP) server port to 587. That SHOULD work. Comment again here if it does not.
Scott, thanks very much for the kind words about my book. I’m looking forward to revising it for Leopard, which should be out later this year.
John, unfortunately, I can’t help with Windows networking problems beyond what’s in my book. Each version of Windows is different in the way it handles Mac OS connectivity, and additional firewall software many users install and use further complicate matters. I recommend using Google to search for help. That’s how I tracked down the answer to my own Vista/Mac OS networking problem a while back. (Not the same as yours.) Good luck!
18 Bryn Havord // Feb 19, 2008 at 7:35 am
Hi: How does one remove Bookmarks in the Mac OS Leopard?
Regards,
Bryn.
19 Maria Langer // Feb 19, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I assume you mean bookmarks in Safari? Choose Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks. Then select the bookmark you want to delete and press Delete.
Hope this helps!
20 j.h. axelrod // Feb 27, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I was hoping for info on iphoto..I want to print photos stored in iphoto site on my hp photosmart c6280 and have been unable..my mac os x 10.5 is connected to the printer…can you advise…cannot find anything in your book to help……
21 Maria Langer // Feb 27, 2008 at 6:51 pm
J.H. -
The book covers Mac OS. iPhoto doesn’t come with Mac OS. It comes with new computers and it’s part of the iLife suite of products. We had to draw the line at what comes with Mac OS.
I suggest the iPhoto ‘08 Visual QuickStart Guide. you can learn more here: http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx/TakeControl/iphoto7-vqs.html
Good luck!
22 Ricardo Fuchs // Jul 18, 2008 at 6:12 am
I have learned a lot from your book on Mac OS X Leopard. Thank you. I am trying to find someone who can write an Apple Script for me. I am willing to pay, of course. I need a script that can be invoked from within a Rule in Mail that will take all e-mail messages from the Apple Mac OS X Mail client in the Sent and Deleted mailboxes (as soon as the message arrives in the respective mailbox) and forward them in the background to another email address, or at least take all the messages that enter the Deleted mail folder (or trash can in Mail) and have a copy saved in the Sent messages folder of the same account. There are no Apple programmers where I live.
23 Maria Langer // Jul 18, 2008 at 6:22 am
I wish I could help with your scripting needs, but I really don’t know enough AppleScript to get a job like that done. Have you considered posting your request on AppleScript forums? Maybe within the Apple Support system? Start at http://www.apple.com/support and track down the AppleScript-related forums. Someone there might be able to help. Good luck!
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