asciara
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Q: Numbers issues

I used to be able to put page numbers at the top of my Numbers document including current page and total pages, but not now.  Why? 

 

Also, used to be able to start typing in a cell and have it automatically fill in the cell.  How do we do that?

 

asciara

Numbers, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 3, 2013 7:37 AM

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Q: Numbers issues

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  • by Wayne Contello,

    Wayne Contello Wayne Contello Dec 3, 2013 7:54 AM in response to asciara
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    Dec 3, 2013 7:54 AM in response to asciara

    These features were dropped in the new version of Numbers.  You can post feedback to Apple using the menu item "Numbers > Provide Numbers Feedback" AND you can continue to use the previous version which is located in the folder "/Applications/iWork '09"

     

    Apple has posted a list of items they plan to address in the near future:

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049

  • by SGIII,

    SGIII SGIII Dec 3, 2013 8:06 AM in response to asciara
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    Dec 3, 2013 8:06 AM in response to asciara

    Hi asciara,

     

    Not exactly what you want, but you can still put the page number at the bottom of your document. See this control in the right panel in Print Preview.

     

    Screen Shot 2013-12-03 at 11.01.50 AM.png

     

    I understand you can also paste into Pages and do paginated printing from there.

     

    On your second question, until Apple reintroduces "auto-complete text in cells" (and even after it is brought back) you might want to consider formatting the cells in the column as Pop-Up Menu if you frequently enter repeating values in a column and don't want to type the same text over and over again.

     

    In many situations, particularly if you want to avoid typos creeping in and messing up your data, Pop-Up Menu has clear advantages over "autocomplete." It is much enhanced over what it was in Numbers 2.3, and is easy to set up:

     

    pop-up-choose-format.png

     

    Select the whole column or range before formatting as Pop-Up Menu and your existing values in that column or range will pre-populate a menu automatically:

     

     

    pop-up-format-column.png

     

     

    Then you can remove the values you don't want in the list, such as the column header (and possibly some previous spelling errors too!):

     

    pop-up-remove-item.png

     

     

    And after this easy one-time setup all you have to do thereafter is to choose from the pop-up list when you add rows:

    pop-up-choose.png

     

     

    See this post for more details on how this handy feature has been enhanced in Numbers 3.0.

     

    In Numbers 3.0 there is no keyboard shortcut to activate the menu such as hitting the spacebar in the old Numbers (hope they'll add one in upcoming versions) but the Pop-Up Menu approach, unlike auto-complete, eliminates spelling inconsistencies or lack of capitalization when there should be capitalization, etc.

     

    And should you ever want to take your Numbers with you and do data entry on an iPad or iPhone, in a touch interface pop-ups are much more efficient than typing the first few letters of items. You can scroll with ease through a list of dozens of items to make a pick.

     

    See this thread for this and other workarounds for Numbers 3.0.

     

    SG