Smartphones and tablets are often used for quick access to address book content and calculators, but there are times when you might find yourself looking up a phone number or running a quick calculation on your Mac and need to take the results with you to another location in the room. Instead of writing it down on a notepad, if you will be in view of your Mac from a different location then you can use some quick features in the Contacts and Calculator applications to be able to see the results from a distance.
Right-click the calculator window to see the Large Type option.
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Both the Calculator and Contacts programs support a Large Type view, where certain numbers can be shown across the entire display instead of in the normal contact card or calculator window of the application itself.
In Calculator, you can see this by right-clicking the number display where you will see "Large Type" as an option in the contextual menu. Selecting this will have the current number shown in large semitransparent letters that should be legible from quite a distance. Similarly, for contact phone numbers, you can click the number label (i.e., Work, Home, Mobile, etc.) and see an option there to "Show in Large Type," which will present it in a similar way.... [Read more]
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