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HELLO - I've been trying to figure out how to STOP Mac Number Incrementing my Text which includes numbers Ex: A1300 - I want to repeat it without INCREMENTS. As I pull the handle down it keeps adding another number Ex: A1301 A1302..... ALSO, the cell is formatted as TEXT
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iMac, OS X 10.11
It was an odd design choice. Dragging down on on the actual number 1300 doesn't do this but put some text in front of it and all of a sudden it thinks it is the start of a sequence. It has burned me more than a few times. At a minimum it would be nice if auto-incrementing could be overridden, like with Option or Shift or something.
You can provide feedback to Apple via the menu item Numbers->Provide Numbers Feedback
Type #A1300 in row 3, select both 2 and 3, and then drag the handle down.
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Thank you. I don't understand why it does that if the cell is marked TEXT.
I agree. There should actually be an option to turn it on and off in the format side bar. Thank you again for all of your help!
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