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LETTER OF THE MONTH!
Thank you for highlighting the power of Apple apps Pages, Numbers and Keynote in your September issue (MF394). I’m an avid user of Numbers and Keynote, and present a lot of material, so I was extremely interested to discover your tips. However, one issue I haven’t been able to overcome is the ‘print highlighted section’ that features in an Excel spreadsheet and seemingly not Numbers. Sometimes I only need/want to print or PDF a section of my data. Have I missed a trick or is this really a missing feature?
It really is a missing feature – and one we hope Apple addresses in the next Numbers update. The only thing you can usefully do is copy and paste the data you want to highlight into a new Numbers sheet, then print or save it as a PDF from there. It’s a bit of a kludge, but it works.
NOTES ON AN iCLOUD BACKUP
I’m a bit of a sucker when it comes to notes apps, particularly those using Markdown like Obsidian and Logseq. Another joy of using these apps is that if we save the files to iCloud I can access them via the iOS apps. However, as I’m gradually transferring more and more of my notes across, I’ve realised I now store a lot of files on iCloud. This begs the question: should I be backing up this data, and if so, how?
I’ve read stories of iCloud losing people’s data, so I presume it’s not beyond the realms of possibility (even if it is an unlikely scenario). However, having a local backup would put my mind at rest – what’s the best way to go about this? BY SIMON WHALEY
Apple’s recommended solution is to select iCloud Drive in any Finder sidebar, select the files you want to keep a copy of, then from the Edit menu, select Copy Items and paste them into your new location. This could be to a different folder on your Mac that’s not stored on iCloud Drive (the Downloads folder, say), or to an external drive.
You could then – if you wish – create a backup of that folder to a diferent drive using either TIme Machine or a third-party app such as SuperDuper (£26.90, shirt-pocket.com). The other alternative would be to use
