Archive for the ‘Forums’ Category

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.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

I had a great surprise when I checked the Numbers Templates Forums this afternoon after stuffing myself with entirely too much food.  Forum member 5|=vv had posted a neat Numbers spreadsheet that had graphical breakdown of the days in November on which Thanksgiving fallen since 1939. [Note: This blog has a fair number of international ...

Numbers For The Rest Of Us Book

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Forum member, JaxJason, is working on a short format book/tutorial on Numbers. To quote from Jason’s first post on the project: Ok, here is my first attempt at a little book to help people pick up Numbers. It is written in a conversational tone. It is purposefully not written ...

Measurement Conversion Sheet for Apple iWork Numbers

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Forum maestro, JaxJason, posted this cool little converter spreadsheet back in September. At first blush, there isn’t a lot going on with this. The first sheet presents just one table, with two drop down boxes: one for choosing the unit measurement you would like to convert to, the ...

Solver Workaround for Apple iWork Numbers

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 ...

New Personal Finance Template for Apple iWork Numbers

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 ...

Tip for Merging and Splitting Cells

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 ...

Is Numbers Right For You?

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, ...

Announcing the Forums

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 ...