Copy and Paste Formula from One Cell to Multiple (How?)

Dude - really?
I just switched over from PC to MAC about a little less then a year ago. I finally got rid of outlook and I'm using Mac mail. I'm trying to switch from Excel and Word to Numbers and Pages. I'm sure most of us on this forum are in the same boat I'm in.

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What do you mean, "too bad"? There are 100s of other reasons why we should maybe stick with Excel. Apple came up with 1 innovation for spreadsheets, and that is the tables orientation that it has. Other than than, Excel wipes floors with Numbers

The original post's author is well aware of this. I do agree with him that it is pathetic that you have to be innovative in order to implement such a basic spreadsheet feature, into a new program which is in its infancy, even though that feature has been employed by the grandfathers of spreadsheets. I gathers too that his issue was more concerned with copying a formula from a cell in 1 column, to multiple cells in annother column graphically, as you should be able to, and can in competing programs. While there are workarounds, dont you agree that it is lunacy that there has to be?

Hello

It's really funny to read this kind of comments.

It appears that XL users assume that the syntax used in XL is definitely incized in marble.

I apologize, Apple is perfectly free to adopt different syntax.

I'm satisfied by the choosen ones and so I uses Numbers.

If you aren't satisfied, why did you buy Numbers which you where allowed to test for free during 30 days?

I used AppleWorks for years and was acustomed to type cmd + d to fill down a selected range of cells.
Numbers uses an other way.
After some months of use, I'm really unable to say if one is better than the other.
And of course it's the same for many other functions.
For the ones which I really miss or dislike, I sent a report to Apple.

I just wonder why there is not a link in Numbers to ask them to get rid of this kind of threads 😉

Yes, I know the [Report this post] button, but it doesn't report to the Numbers's team 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 25 janvier 2008 21:58:15)

I hate to say this, not being an Excel fan, but the way Numbers handles copy/paste of functions totally flies in the face of any reasonable spreadsheet app I've ever used:

- excel 😟
- gnumeric
- open office
- a whole range of online spreadsheet applications.

Yes, apple is doing it different. The program LOOKS beautiful. But if I can't COMPUTE values easily - I'm moving on.

Yuck.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 4 mars 2008 16:02:10)