Writing merged cells vertically

Yvan (the Terrific),

I know about the Non Disclosure Agreement and I should have writing "a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of..." that could have some info or clue.
The guy should not swear over the bible; just give the guess.

What a shame that Numbers is only visually well designed and it is underpowered.

Like you, I did not understand why Apple abandoned AppleWorks without having a full replacement for it. They should have saved the AppleWorks modular concept, at least.

One simple thing that they should have done is to have the "Open Recent" working.

Thanks Yvan for socialize your knowledge!

Jorge Lucas (the guy from Rio Grande do Sul)

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Yvan,

The "Open Recent" problem is with AppleWorks; it does not work.

+And my primary applications is AppleWorks.+

(text, because has Equation Editor included; databases that iWork does not have and spreadsheets that are faster and easier to put formulas than Numbers)



Jorge Lucas (the guy from Rio Grande do Sul)

Yvan,


There are some things that make Numbers easy than AppleWorks; like this: if you are going to add numbers of the same row, you do not need to specify the row (you told me this sometime ago).

But, some things that were so natural in AppleWorks are not so in Numbers; take this:
1) write a date in A1
2) write a date in A2
3) in AppleWorks, you just write in a chosen cell, let's say, C2: ' =IF(AND(B1,B2),B2-B1,"")' and the SS calculates the number of days between those 2 dates.

Now, if you try to do this in Numbers, it seems to me that will be a little bit harder.

I know that you have very much more knowledge than I do and could do this very easily even in Numbers; but for an average user like myself, it seems a little bit more difficult in Numbers.

Maybe I just do not know the Mac way of this application and like AppleWorks too much.

If Apple release the future iPad in Brasil — until now, the original iPad did not appear here — and if there is the FileMaker Pro for iPad (complete solution, not the "On the Go" that depends on some other Mac) then I must consider abandoning my AppleWorks DB and bring the iPad to the classroom. The iPad is 1/3 of the MacBook weight and this is an huge difference.

Thanks,

Jorge Lucas (the guy from Rio Grande do Sul)

Yvan,


My interest in the iPad depends on 2 or 3 things:

1) if I am able to build a better and bigger db that the one I already have functioning — for over 10 years — in the db module of AW (the one that you knew some years ago and that is better now, with its 255 fields (it is limited at 255) running fine;
2) if I can get the pdf or e-book version of my text book ( I have the free paper version and I tried — unsuccessfully — to buy the digital copy (the book alone weighs 1 Kg);
3) I need to see which Math apps I can have that substitute the ones I have on the MacBook;
4) I was counting on the full versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote — you put cold water on my plans.

Apart from the classroom usage that would be something — just imagine, been able to hold it with one hand and write in the board with the other! — it would be nice to use it as an e-book reader and/or internet reader.

But, if the iPad does not do the things I need, I am also considering a MacBook Air 13.3” (1.32 Kg), hoping that I can use AppleWorks in Lion or going to FileMakerPro.
But even this option is hard to implement it because here we have to pay more than double the American price; and our salaries are very much less than the American.

By the way, you said:

I don't understand why FileMaker which is able to create FileMaker Go for the iPad is unable to do the same for the Mac. Bento is far from being an alternative to the AppleWorks DB module.

The last hope I had about the inclusion of a DB module in the iWork suite, was gone after FileMaker made the list organizer Bento: it was very clear that they would not include the Filemaker Pro in the suite because it alone costs more than the all suite; so *+I thought that Apple would ask FileMaker to produce a flat version (not relational) — that could be named “FileMaker” (without the “Pro”)+*.
They could charge for it the same as each of the existing 3 applications.

Bento is very much less than this and because your thoughts on it, I never even tried it.

So, I better wait the release of the new iPad, the iWork ’11, put some money together and find a way to make my teaching easier.

+Thank you for the bad news about iWork for iPad.+

Now, I am closer to the Air.


Jorge Lucas (the guy from Rio Grande do Sul)

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