How to make an existing row a header?

Hi Herbert,

Click on a cell (anywhere) to show the column and row reference tabs.
Hover the mouse over the reference tab for row 1, then click the triangle that appears.
Choose the first item in the popup menu—Convert to header row.
Repeat for row 2.

Regards,
Barry

exLuddite wrote:
The option is always grayed out. Is there some kind of bug in my installation, or is there a general setting that is wrong?

I don't understand. The option is available or itsn't.
If the selected row is already an header one, the item is unavailable in the menu.





Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 16 juillet 2010 18:38:21

Yes. If the column is 'already a "header,"' it still doesn't behave like one: as you scroll across, the column doesn't remain in view, so that you can see what the rows are. None of the suggested choices work: not from a menu, not at the head of the column, not in the toolbar. Nada. There doesn't seem to be any way to fix the panes.

I suggest you take a more careful look at the options under the Table menu item. To freeze header columns and/or rows so that they stay in view as you scroll through the table, select Freeze Header Rows and/or Freeze Header Columns. You will find both of those options under the Table menu item.

The thread was about the way to change a standard row into an header one, not about the way to 'freeze' an headr row.

Take care to the subject of a thread before adding a question.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 16 juillet 2010 22:10:17

For some reason or other, the program will only create a new header column; it will not allow me to make an existing column a header column. Moreover, if I try to copy the contents of the desired column into the new (empty) header column, it will only do it one cell at a time.

exLuddite wrote:
For some reason or other, the program will only create a new header column; it will not allow me to make an existing column a header column. Moreover, if I try to copy the contents of the desired column into the new (empty) header column, it will only do it one cell at a time.

Assuming that you apply the described protocol, what you get isn't the normal behaviour.
May you try to run Numbers from an other user account ?
This would tell us if the problem is linked to your original account or if in is in the part of thge system which is shared by every accounts.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 17 juillet 2010 23:30:36

It's described in *_Numbers User Guide_* page 59 (in the English version).



Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 26 juin 2010 21:33:35

The option is always grayed out. Is there some kind of bug in my installation, or is there a general setting that is wrong?

Are you sure that you are running Numbers '09 ?
If I remember well, the described feature is unavailable in Numbers '08.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 16 juillet 2010 18:41:00