Can I make a Numbers table right to left?

No. Try Open/LibreOffice.

Hi italoewe,

You can set your columns to be whatever you want. If you want totals on the left side this is not hard to do. You can make your spreadsheet look how you want it to look. What are your concerns?

Navigation- the return key will still send you to the cell below, you can select the cell to the left with the arrow key. Add a column "before" to add a new column on the left. If you want to add many columns to the left it may be more awkward than dragging the "=" at the right of the columns but certainly do-able.

Column "A" will still be the left most column. If you want to use a form on iOS it will read column A first. When you choose a range it will appear in the formula as going from the upper left to the lower right- this will not affect functionality.

I really don't see a difficulty on a Mac.

quinn

t quinn wrote:

Column "A" will still be the left most column.

People who work in languages which are written from right to left like Hebrew/Arabic want column A to be the right most column. Apple apps can't do it yet, but some others can.

Hi Ita,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. I think you want a "mirror image" (right to left) of a Numbers table. But we work with what we have. Numbers does not consider one column as more "important" than any other column. (The exception is Header Columns on the left, but I often wish for Header Columns on the right 🙂).

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Ian.

You can post feedback to Apple about this feature using the menu item "Numbers > Provide Numbers Feedback"

Thank you all. Now that I know Numbers runs only left-to-right, I'll make tables accordingly.

Excel tables open properly by Numbers, have to get used to different direction.
Karni

Karni Grunberg wrote:

Excel tables open properly by Numbers, have to get used to different direction.

Do you have Excel for Mac tables that run Right to Left? Or only Excel for Windows?

I have a Windows PC with Excel only for Windows. Recently bought also a Macbook Air.

I did, thank you.

Karni Grunberg wrote:

I have a Windows PC with Excel only for Windows. Recently bought also a Macbook Air.

I have verified that at the latest update of Excel for Mac 2016 will do RTL columns, which I think is a new feature.

Page layout. Sheet Right to left.

Vidalbar wrote:

Page layout. Sheet Right to left.

Can you explain exactly where you find those options in the Numbers app? Are you using version 3 or 4?

Vidalbar wrote:

Page layout. Sheet Right to left.

As far as I can tell, that is only for MS Excel. Italoewe wants to know how to do it with Apple Numbers.

Short answer: No, not in Numbers for Mac in any version of Numbers (versions 2, 3, 4).

Even changing System Preferences to a right-to-left language does not place column A on the right.

Regards,

Ian.

Yellowbox wrote:

Short answer: No, not in Numbers for Mac in any version of Numbers

Hi Ian,

This is possible in a table in Pages, where one can do the same kind of calculations as in Numbers. (I pasted this Hebrew in, but I do see RTL languages appear to enter correctly in a cell in Numbers or Pages, but the table itself can only be changed to RTL in Pages.).

But as you say apparently no way in Numbers 4.

... I'm relieved in a way, because if right-to-left tables were introduced in Numbers then the next thing you know someone in Australia or some other place might be insisting on bottom-to-top or something like that; life is already so complicated!🙂

SG