Change the Default PDF Reader to Preview. Preview is a PDF and image viewer made by Apple that comes installed with the Mac OS. While many web sites direct you to download Adobe Reader to open PDFs, I recommend that you use Preview instead, as it’s faster and less clunky than Reader, and it has more user-friendly annotation tools. When you open a PDF/A compliant document in PDF/A viewing mode, the document is opened in Read mode to prevent modification. A message is displayed in the document message bar. You will be unable to make changes and add annotations to the document. Open each Preferences file listed in your text editor (this will be 1 or more Preferences files depending on the number of User Profiles you have setup in Chrome), and find all of the always_open_pdf_externally and open_pdf_in_system_reader preferences. Open the PDF file into Preview app on a Mac; Using the mouse cursor, select the text you wish to copy and then hit Command+C; Navigate over to Microsoft Office, Word, Pages, or your word processor of choice, and paste with Command+V into the document and save as usual. How to Set the Opening View of a PDF in Acrobat Professional. With the PDF document open in Acrobat. On the Show drop-down list enable you to display either the document title or the document file name on the title bar of the document window. You can hide the menu bar.

I prefer file downloads over running downloads automatically on the system once they complete on it. That's true for most file types but not for all. For instance, I prefer that torrent files get downloaded directly in a BitTorrent application as that's where I'd load them in anyway. You too may have certain file types that you want opened directly. Maybe PDF files, Usenet NZB files, or even videos that you download from the Internet. As a Firefox user, the web browser offers in this regard as you can set default actions for known file types easily on the Applications Settings page which you can open directly from this link about:preferences#applications.

Macs running the latest OS version now warn users that any 32-bit app they launch is not “optimized for your Mac” and needs to be upgraded. Office 2011 still runs in all current versions of Mac OS. Just be careful that you don't update Mac OS X to a version where 32-bit apps will no longer be supported. I am an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft. Mac users have started seeing warnings, stating that a app ‘is not optimised for your Mac’. The alerts started appearing in early April 2018. Recents list not updating Office Mac on Mojave When opening a file, the recents list for local files on my Mac are no longer showing up, only files from the cloud. When I reboot all the local files on the Mac are no longer on the list. Access to files stored on a SharePoint server requires connectivity to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or later. Exchange support in Outlook requires connectivity to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 or later OR Office 365 for business. Ms office not optimized for mac.

2013 macbook pro reviews. Google Chrome on the other hand does not have that option, and the process is slightly more complex and less manageable than Firefox's. So how does it work then? It starts with a download.

Download the file type that you want opened automatically in the Chrome browser. You should see it displayed in the downloads bar at the bottom of the page.

When it completes, click on the small arrow icon next to it and select the 'always open files of this type' option. This marks the file type so that it is run automatically whenever files matching it are downloaded to the local system. That's all there is to it. All future files that you download that match the file extension will be run automatically on the system. Chrome will always load them in the default application set for the file type on the system with no option to change it to a different program. The process needs to be repeated for other file types that you want executed automatically instead of being just downloaded. You are probably wondering how you control the feature.

There are two options for that. First, you can uncheck the option if the file type is still displayed in the download bar in Chrome. Since future files won't be listed there anymore once you have made the change, you are left with the following option: • Open the browser's settings page by pasting chrome://settings/ in the address bar and hitting enter. • You find a new option under downloads that is only there if you have set at least one file to run instead of download. • Click on the 'clear auto-opening settings' button to reset all file types to the default state of download.

• You will notice that the button disappears afterwards. All custom run instructions have been reset so that all files will be downloaded once again in the browser. Now You: Do you download files or set your browser to run files automatically?