Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Forum member and Numbers guru, JaxJason, has posted a workaround for the lack of Solver support in Numbers. Jason can explain it better than I can, so here is his quote from the forum:
This one is a solver workaround that uses a second table with about 1000 rows ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Apple released the first update to iWork '08 yesterday. This seems to be a maintenance release, and does not appear to add new features.
The update to Numbers, which takes it to version 1.0.1, states: "primarily addresses issues with tables and performance."
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Apple posted updates to the iLife '08 suite of applications on Wednesday, with the most significant changes coming to iMovie.
The iMovie update includes:
Multiple Clip Selection
Select multiple clips in order to assign keywords, paste adjustments or reorganize clips in your project faster than ever.
Fine Tuning
Quickly refine the start or end frame ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Note: This is not Numbers related specifically, but rather it should be noted that these programs are built by humans, and there will be errors from time to time (even in Apple products).
Forum uber poster JaxJason informed me of this interesting bug in Excel 2007. It seems that when certain ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Forum member Yogimartin has posted his personal finance template on the forums. It is very detailed, and weighs in at a whopping 3.9 MB unzipped. **Fair warning: you need a fast Mac to run this.**
It allows the user to track their checking, savings, credit cards, investments and real estate ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Forum member Ashka shared a good tip on the forums yesterday dealing with Merging and Splitting cells. Basically, there is a bug in how Numbers handles split cells that were merged from an odd number of cells. This is Ashka's work around:
Merging two cells then splitting them works fine, as ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
AppleInsider has an article today with details of Mac Office 2008 pricing. The highlights (or lowlights) are:
There will be three versions. (Why would you expect anything different from M$).
Office 2008 for Mac Home and Student Edition will be $150, for three licenses for non-commercial use. This will include ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Note: I originally posted this on the forums under the title:
Who is Numbers for?.
Introduction:
Numbers is a spreadsheet program released by Apple Inc, in August 2007, as part of the iWork suite of productivity applications. While the iWork suite is marketed toward business users, power users of more mature productivity suites, ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
By request: mileage Log and Reimbursement Form Template
This template is based on an Excel sheet located here.
Usage:
The Mileage Log and Reimbursement form allows the user to keep an accurate record of mileage drive for business purposes. Fields are provided for Date, Starting Location, Destination, Description of trip/notes, Odometer Start ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
I have been very pleased with the progress of this site since I started it a little over a month ago. Although it has been more work than I thought it would be, I have learned a great deal about Numbers, and I look forward to how this program ...
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