You used to be able to click on the view icon in the left top corner and it would give you an option to show an A4 page format but that seems to have gone.
Hi Dawn,
Print View has gone in Numbers 3. Numbers '09 may still be on your computer in Applications folder > iWork '09. It works just as well as it used to.
For Numbers 3.0.1, some workaround ideas here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5512949?answerId=23622372022#2362237202223622372
Show Print View and Show Layout have gone (update). Workaround hints:
Work out where the pages are in print preview and then draw a line on the side of your Sheet. That line will hold it's position if you make changes to your row heights or add photos etc. It will add pages to your overall sheet, but then just select the page range to print.
Save a modified Numbers file to Numbers '09, make any required print view adjustments there and save. Then open in Numbers 3.0 and see if it prints okay. You may find that one line spills over to the second page; deleting one blank line may make a second try perfect. Perhaps the top or bottom margins are smaller than the default size in 3.0.
Menu > View >Show Rulers. Drag Alignment Guides from a ruler to where you want them. Caution: the rulers and/or Alignment Guides may not be accurate. Try Format Inspector > Arrange > Position (or Size) to see if that works better for you.
Menu > Numbers > Preferences > Rulers > Alignment Guides. That allows you to align objects with *each other* (rather than with the ruler guides). These guides help to align objects left, middle, right, top, bottom.
Select multiple objects, then Format Inspector > Arrange > Align (or Distribute). Also under Menu > Arrange.
When duplicating an object (such as a nicely formatted Table that you want to reuse) select the Table, copy, and before you paste, click on the canvas below or beside. Pasted Table will automatically be aligned with the original.
Menu > File > Print to see the Print Preview. Use the Content Scale slider.
Also, see where you can delete blank rows or columns, or make columns narrower, or drag objects to reduce white space. Not as easy as editing in Print View in Numbers 2, but you are still responsible for (and in charge of) the final look!
Regards,
Ian.
Thank you for the hints !
But it obviously makes what was very simple and quick on Numbers 09 a very long and unprecise process on “wonderfull“ Numbers 3.5
HOW CAN INGENIORS FROM APPLE REMOVE SUCH A USEFULL FUNCTION ON A APP ???????
This is a maddening change, and I could not agree more. However, there appears to be a painfully simple solution that I have not seen mentioned above, at least to help place contents within pages horizontally: Simply change the zoom in Print Layout to 75%. When you do so, guides placed at 4.25 and 8.5 in. (for example) will (shockingly) reflect that expected placement in print layout, and therefore can be relied upon to prevent sheets from bleeding over onto another page. I can only assume that the reason this zoom does not work properly for vertical alignment is due to the header and footer but I have not confirmed.
It would take no less than an apple genius to figure out why 100% does not reflect reality in Numbers 3 😉
Website locked up. 🙂Trying again.
Regards,
Ian.
Hi rjonna,
rjonna wrote:
It would take no less than an apple genius to figure out why 100% does not reflect reality in Numbers 3 😉
I agree. Apple Mac used to be totally WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). Now 100% zoom is not. Hold a sheet of paper to the screen and the page size is nothing like.
Thanks for your tip on 75% zoom. I will have a play.
See this User Tip on creating a Layout Guide in Numbers 3:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7101
That is for A4 paper, but should work for other paper sizes.
Regards,
Ian.
How do I show an A4 page layout on Numbers in the 3.0.1 version so that I can structure my tables
