Q: new user question; where to start?
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Sep 15, 2015 12:57 PMby Kilgore-Trout,Capturing everything in your example would require a relational database, which neither numbers nor pages is. However, if you can compromise on what you are capturing or how you would wish to organize it, either could potentially do the job:
- Pages would allow you to capture images of the label, but doesn't provide the ability to easily sort or filter the data points.
- Number does NOT provide a way to capture images, but could, possibly, capture the other data points in the form of drop down cells (there is even a "star rating" cell type. It also makes filtering and sorting easier. Possibly, if you have an online source to store the images, you could link to them via a URL in a test cell.
Definitely worthwhile learning to use these apps, but this may not be the project. On the other hand, if you give it a go, and it doesn't work out, you will still have learned something.
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Sep 15, 2015 1:34 PMby SGIII,Actually Numbers, while not suitable as a database to store thousands of images, is surprisingly adept at storing, displaying, and resorting a reasonable number of images pasted into the the "background" of cells. Once in the background of cells, these will resize/resort as you change your spreadsheet.
To add an image:
In Numbers iOS:
- Tap the + icon.
- Tap the 'picture' icon (the one on the right end of the strip that looks like a landscape)
- Choose the image with the chooser.
This will import the image to the Numbers canvas. To get the image into the background of a cell:
- tap the image
- tap Cut
- tap in a Numbers cell
- tap Paste
Then resize the Numbers column and row until you have the image as large as you want it.
The process is similar in Numbers for the Mac. Just click the Media button in the toolbar to import an image to the canvas. Click it, command-x to cut, click in cell, command-v to paste.
SG
Sorted and resized:
