PC to Mac as painlessly as possible

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dmsims said:

Speaking of child tests have you found the # key yet?

Is it next to @ which I also struggled to find?

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julian64 said:

Nope I just see someone who wants new features but not prepared to put in any effort to learn.

You talking about me?

I want to use that new fangled Internet and what’s it called? Email. Oh and the cutting edge Office suite of applications.

Not exactly rocket surgery is it.

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I am not the main user of the new Mac but I am the one who is getting asked how it works so I am having to learn to walk again. Stuff like where’s the @ and how to copy and paste.

One thing I have yet to suss is why contacts aren’t syncing. The user is logged in with the same Apple ID as the phone and texts and photos have synced but not contacts. I can and will call Apple but if anyone knows what I am doing wrong please let me know.

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megaphone said:

So said:

I am not the main user of the new Mac but I am the one who is getting asked how it works so I am having to learn to walk again. Stuff like where’s the @ and how to copy and paste.

One thing I have yet to suss is why contacts aren’t syncing. The user is logged in with the same Apple ID as the phone and texts and photos have synced but not contacts. I can and will call Apple but if anyone knows what I am doing wrong please let me know.

On the Mac look in System Preferences>iCloud and make sure what you want to sync is ticked. You'll need the Apple ID.

Also in System Preferences>Mouse>Point & Click, make sure secondary click on right side is ticked, that will bring up copy and paste on the right click, same as Windows.

1. It's ticked.

2. Thanks for that, I will take a look.

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NDA said:

cmd A : select everything
cmd C : copy
cmd V : paste

In terms of address book not syncing - are you talking about the phone, a Mac, or both?

Contacts are on the phone, they won't sync to the Mac. I have logged into the iCloud account online and they're not there either, so I presume they aren't leaving the phone.

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NDA said:

Try (on the phone):

Settings/contacts/import SIM Contacts

Then

Settings/Accounts & Passwords/iCloud - turn on Contacts (switch to green)

Could be that.

Personally, I'd have my contacts with Gmail or Yahoo rather than iCloud - but let's see if the above works.

Tried this. Still no contacts.

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megaphone said:

Also in System Preferences>Mouse>Point & Click, make sure secondary click on right side is ticked, that will bring up copy and paste on the right click, same as Windows.

The machine is using trackpad only. But going into trackpad settings it explained how to copy and paste using two fingers.

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WinstonWolf said:

To check where your existing contacts live:

Open the Contacts app (or open the Phone app and select Contacts).
In the upper left corner, tap Groups.
The list of groups that appears is separated by account (for instance: Gmail, iCloud). You can tell which contacts are in which groups by unchecking the "All [ACCOUNT_NAME]" group, tapping Done in the upper right corner, and looking to see what contacts are still visible to you.

Ah that may be it.

It suggests they are in Outlook, though the phone doesn't have Outlook on it and neither does the Macbook.

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ZesPak said:

So said:

Ah that may be it.

It suggests they are in Outlook, though the phone doesn't have Outlook on it and neither does the Macbook.

Maybe just an exchage server or an Outlook account u used when setting up the phone?

Is your email @outlook/@msn/@hotmail or something?

If yes, go to http://www.outlook.com, try to log in with your email, your contacts should be there.

The Apple ID email is [e-mail] but as I recall we did link that phone to an outlook.com account for the purposes of sycing a calendar.

We're about to put Office on the Macbook, so I presume I can locate that Outlook.com account and sync the phone contacts onto the Macbook that way. Perhaps use Outlook as the mail app too.

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eatcustard said:

I use a mac and I find word is crap on it, if flows text all over the place, even when using the same opentype fount.

Are you sure it's not your typing?