Archive for January, 2008

Template: Baseball Scorecard with Pitch Count

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

This is basically a straight conversion of the Excel Baseball Scorecard Template. I was curious about how an Excel spreadsheet with that much detail would convert into Numbers. The answer was, quite nicely.  I only had to make a few adjustments.  Of course, the sheet ...

Apple Training Series: iWork 08

Monday, January 21st, 2008

If anyone is looking for a book on iWork '08, or Numbers, Peachpit Press has recently released Apple Training Series: iWork 08, by Richard Harrington. I haven't read it myself, but I did thumb through it at the Apple Store. It appeared to be a good ...

Template: Graph Paper

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Here's something fun and useful: Graph Paper Templates. Just print a page out as you need it. The zip contains four files: graph-paper-small-grid.numbers: Graph paper template with grids spaced at .17 inches. graph-paper-small-grid.pdf: PDF version of the small grid graph paper template. graph-paper-large-grid.numbers: Graph paper template with grids spaced at .43 inches. graph-paper-large-grid.pdf: PDF ...

Whoops! I Posted to the Wrong Site

Friday, January 11th, 2008

I accidentally posted an article here that should have went to my Personal Finance blog. Sorry. I have deleted the post, but I'm sure it went out to all of the RSS subscribers, so I felt an explanation was needed. I guess I should also say that if you have an ...

Template: Loan Grid Worksheet

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

The Loan Grid Worksheet template allows you to quickly visualize alternatives when considering a loan. For instance: You are considering a loan of $12,000 at 8% interest for a term of 60 months. There are many loan amortization spreadsheets that you could plug these numbers into and see that the ...

Seeking Guest Posts

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Do you have a cool template or tip of Numbers that you would like to share? E-mail me your template or post and if it looks good, I will post it on the blog. All authors will receive full attribution and a link back to their site (if they have ...

Mac Office 2008, Why I Will Be Buying

Friday, January 4th, 2008

First off, yes this is a blog dedicated to Apple's Numbers spreadsheet.  That, in my opinion, does not preclude looking at other office programs on the Mac, and traditionally Mac Office has been the dominant player.  While I think Numbers is a great tool, and will meet the ...