I feel stupid asking this but here goes...

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I feel stupid asking this but here goes...

I upgraded to the new Numbers and when you save your spreadsheet and say your cursor is on row 500 column 10 and next time you open that spreadsheet how do you get back to that position without scrolling or paging down a million times? In an Excel spreadsheet it remembers the last spot you were in, does Numbers have a way to remember the last spot?

In the previous version of Numbers I could just tap the down arrow and it would jump to the saved spot, but that doesn't work in the new version, it just stays at the top of the spreadsheet.

Thank you for your help.

Matt

Numbers '09-OTHER, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 4:31 PM

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Answer 1

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Wayne Contello

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Oct 23, 2013 7:03 PM in response to Jesusinside68

I do not see a way (natively) to deal with this. You can post a comment to Apple using the menu item "Number > Provide Number Feedback"

As a follow on (work around) you could add a small table that you leave near the area of interest, then you can select that table to "jump" to that spot using the sheet menu:

In this example "Table 2" was my marker table

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Answer 2

Oct 23, 2013 7:07 PM in response to Jesusinside68

J,

I can't confirm your observation. When I save with a down-table cell selected and close, the document reopens exactly as it was when I closed it.

Jerry

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Answer 3

Oct 23, 2013 7:19 PM in response to Jerrold Green1

I'm not sure what you mean by save with a down-table cell selected.

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Oct 23, 2013 7:24 PM in response to Jesusinside68

Well, if I have a table with many rows and if I am scrolled to one of the rows far down the table, and I select a cell in that far-down row, then Save the document and Close it, I find the same cell selected and in view when I reopen the document.

Is that clear?

Jerry

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Answer 5

Oct 23, 2013 7:32 PM in response to Jerrold Green1

Yes, I understand now.

Very interesting, I don't have tables in my spreadsheet but I can easily change a few things to give this a try.

Thanks for your help.

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Answer 6

Oct 23, 2013 7:59 PM in response to Jerrold Green1

I just experimented and put a table at the end of one of my spreadsheets and it worked, when I open it up the cursor is in the table where I last was at.

This will work out great for what I'm doing.

Thanks

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