If you receive the message "Content Preparation Progress.Please wait while the document is being prepared for reading." when opening PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat DC, you may solve this in one of two ways: If you do not need screen reading technologies:a. Go to Edit > Preferences > Accessibility.b. Under "Other Accessibility Options" disable "Enable assistive technology …
Extract Embedded Media from PowerPoint on OSX
Open a terminal window: To open Terminal, go to Applications > Utilities > TerminalGo to the folder where the file is located, in my case Desktop/ ~/Desktop/testUnzip the file (my filename is presentation.pptx)unzip presentation.pptx If that doesn’t work, rename the presentation.pptx to presentation.zip and try the above procedure, of course with the correct file …
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Sharing Windows Outlook Calendars with Outlook on Mac
Ok, it is not all that hard to share your Outlook for Windows calendars with Outlook for Mac, but there will always be a few annoyances. With that said let's get this done! This is for people with a common Microsoft Exchange account only! This method eliminates setting up individual deligates as described here and here These instructions are only for sharing an …
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Batch rename all files in a folder to lower case on a Mac
You need to know how to use Mac OS terminal app: Open Terminal.app, type cd and then drag and drop the Folder containing the files to rename into the Terminal window. If needed, confirm you're in the correct directory, type ls and hit enter. You will see a list of all files in the directory. Paste this code and hit enter: for f in *; do mv "$f" "$f.tmp"; mv "$f.tmp" …
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