"Zoom" view in Numbers

As far as I know, the response is no.

I will search where is stored the list of factors.
Maybe I will be able to edit it.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 14 février 2009 18:27:14)

Richard Lane wrote:
Let me know what you find. I looked everywhere that I knew about. While it seems an odd omission on Apple's part..especially since Numbers has been out for a while now

Are you joking ?

An application in version 2 is just a child (version 1 is a baby).

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 14 février 2009 19:06:36)

Numbers is not designed as a clone of Excel.
Sure the developers are able to code this kind of thing.
My own guess is that they felt that it doesn't match the needs of at least 80% of the targetted customers.

And I'm quite sure that they are right 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 14 février 2009 19:33:51)

I'd like this functionality as the "canned" default levels don't fit with my docs. Is there a feedback place where we can submit needs to the iWork development team?

KOENIG Yvan wrote:
Numbers is not designed as a clone of Excel.
Sure the developers are able to code this kind of thing.
My own guess is that they felt that it doesn't match the needs of at least 80% of the targetted customers.

And yet they bothered making a French version?

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
And yet they bothered making a French version?

From time to time I wonder if they built such a version.
Happily, most of my French friends seems to be able to use features which you are unable to discover 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 2 mars 2009 22:21:34)

It maybe a language thing but I seem to understand what the posters actually are asking and not telling them off for not knowing.

The original question was already responded:

As far as I know, the response is no.

The feature is unavailable.

The only thing which I may do is to change the default value to a non_standard value which will remain available.

It's easy to do.

It just require a brute force operation on the Index.xml file in a standard Numbers document.
Changing this setting in a template is waste of time. The code creating a document from a template filters the zoom factor allowing only predefined values.

Create a new document named xxxx.numbers
If Numbers '09 is ste to create flat files, rename xxxx.numbers as xxxx.zip then double click it.

You will get the folder xxxx.
Open it.
Open the file entitled Index.xml
Search for the string:
"{sf:LSWorkspaceCanvasScaleProperty}"

CAUTION: in this message I use accolades "{}" as replacements for "" which where fooling the message parser

You will find three occurences looking this way:

{sf:LSWorkspaceCanvasScaleProperty}{sf:number sfa:number="1" sfa:type="f"/}

Edit the second occurence to fit your needs:

For instance:

{sf:LSWorkspaceCanvasScaleProperty}{sf:number sfa:number="0.88" sfa:type="f"/}

Save the edited file.

Rename the folder xxxx as xxxx.numbers

Open it in Numbers.
The zoom factor will be 88%.
It will remain this one as far as you don't change it from the zoom menu.

A neat way to get quite the same result easily is to work with the mode "Print View" active.
Use the slider available at the bottom to set the scale to fit your needs.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 3 mars 2009 20:56:58)

KOENIG Yvan wrote:
A neat way to get quite the same result easily is to work with the mode "Print View" active.
Use the slider available at the bottom to set the scale to fit your needs.

And, we can type a scale figure into the Content Scale dialog box in the Sheet Inspector. I find this easier than using the slider in some situations.

Jerry

Hi Jerry

Some users are ingenious,

some others aren't 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 9 mars 2009 18:48:33)

Of course those of us with later model laptops with multi touch trackpads don't need the option anyway 😀
Zooming happens when moving finger tips in the wrong direction....
S.

Under-appreciated Feature!

Ashka wrote:
Of course those of us with later model laptops with multi touch trackpads don't need the option anyway 😀
Zooming happens when moving finger tips in the wrong direction....

I don't know, I uses only desktop machines.
When I'm not at home I don't wish to be linked to the net or even to a phone.
Yes, I know, I'm a coelacanthus 😉

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE lundi 9 mars 2009 22:05:46)