Archive for April, 2008

Waterfall Charts in Numbers

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Forum member Allmec has posted a cool example of how to create waterfall charts in Numbers. You can check out his post on the Numbers Template Forums.

Home Electronics Cost Calculator Template

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

How much is all the electrically powered junk around your house really costing you? Remember that you keep paying for appliances after you buy them through the energy they consume. You can use a cool tool called the Kill-A-Watt to find out exactly how much electricity your appliances are using, ...

Tip: Rotating Text

Friday, April 18th, 2008

One of the most frequently asked questions on the Apple Numbers Discussion forums is how to rotate text (for instance, make the text vertical). This is a common function in Excel, but unfortunately, it is not available in Numbers '08. However, while you cannot rotate text in-cell, you can ...

Template: Household Monthly Budget

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I found this detailed, single page, household budget template for Numbers on the iwork templates blog. The author states that it was converted from an Excel file, so it doesn't display a lot of the Numbers formating flash. Still, if you are looking for a simple budget, this ...

Numbers Review On Seeking Alpha

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Carl Howe has written a nice review on Numbers for the Seeking Alpha web site.  He calls it "Innovative" and "User-Friendly". You can find the full review here Technorati Tags: apple,mac,osx,numbers,spreadsheet .

Tip: Consolidate Windows In Spaces

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Good Tip: Shift-dragging a window in Spaces will consolidate all of that app's windows in the target space. Via Daring Fireball via Nat Irons

Template: Family Tree

Friday, April 4th, 2008

The Family Tree Template for Numbers allows you to enter up to five generations of ancestry. From Wikipedia: A family tree is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure form resembling a tree. As normally presented these trees "grow" down from the top, from the oldest generations at ...