Sure most of you know that you can use Wine to run Windows applications on your MAC OS X system. But I'm guessing most of you don't use it. Because it is complex and cumbersome to most users. Once upon a time, the Mac and the Internet did not always get along. Long before Safari showed up, Netscape and Internet Explorer were busy waging a war to define the future of browsing — a future that didn't often include the Mac. Most of the time, Mac users were stuck using browsers one or two versions behind their Windows counterparts, with no access to popular plug-ins essential to browsing various parts of the Web. ![]() While this sounds like a ridiculous case of webmaster insanity, I've seen this happen with quite a few job, healthcare, and government-related websites — built by organizations that don't trust (or have time to learn about) other systems. But you can get around most of these arbitrary restrictions with my favorite hidden menu in Safari: Develop > User Agent. How to access websites that require a PC or Internet Explorer • Launch Safari. • Click Safari in the menu bar at the top of your screen. • Click Preferences. • Click on the Advanced tab. • Check the 'Show Develop menu in menu bar' setting, then close the Preferences window. The Develop menu should now show in your menu bar. • Go to Develop > User Agent. • If you need to pretend you're using Internet Explorer, choose one of the Internet Explorer options. • If you need to pretend you're using a PC, choose 'Google Chrome — Windows' or 'Firefox — Windows'. Note: If your browser options are grayed out, you may still have the Preferences screen open — close it first! Doing so should get you through the website's detection-checker. Of course, the page may still be using ancient codecs or plugins not supported by Safari — in which case, you might have to look into. Still having trouble? Let us know below. Microsoft word for mac guide on how to show 4th and 5th sections on a table of contents. Updated June 2018: Updated for the latest version of macOS.
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