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Find And Replace not working in Numbers

All fields in the Find and Replace box are greyed out. Using Numbers 13.2 on a MacBook Air runner Sonoma 14.

MacBook Air (M1, 2020)

Posted on Oct 8, 2023 3:09 PM

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Posted on Jan 10, 2024 12:56 AM

I rang up apple support and they told me there has literally been a new update for Sonoma, you need to physically update the software as it doesn't prompt you. Failing that you can still use ⌘ F (Command, Find) whilst in numbers and it will work that way or use the Edit menu and find.

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Find And Replace not working in Numbers

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