Hi.
I'm using Numbers on my iPhone 6Plus to create a basic database of parking 'pay & display' machines and pay by phone location codes in the area in which I live.
Once I've been around and entered a days information 'in the field' how do I save my spreadsheet so when I open it on my iMac I can see my additions I have made throughout the day?
OS X Mountain Lion
The easiest way is to activate iCloud.
On the iPhone you do this in two places: 1) Settings > iCloud AND 2) Settings > Numbers.
On the Mac you do this at System Preferences > iCloud. Make sure you're signed into iCloud, and that iCloud Drive is checked. Then click the Options ... button and check Numbers.app.
I'm not sure if Mountain Lion runs a recent enough version of Numbers to do this, though.
You can also sync via iTunes though that requires more effort.
SG
The easiest way is to activate iCloud.
On the iPhone you do this in two places: 1) Settings > iCloud AND 2) Settings > Numbers.
On the Mac you do this at System Preferences > iCloud. Make sure you're signed into iCloud, and that iCloud Drive is checked. Then click the Options ... button and check Numbers.app.
I'm not sure if Mountain Lion runs a recent enough version of Numbers to do this, though.
You can also sync via iTunes though that requires more effort.
SG
Thank you.
I found out Numbers autosaves but when I try to open the freshly saved sheet using Numbers on the iMac it won't open 😟
That can happen if you don't have a recent version of Numbers on your Mac. What version are you using?
SG
On my iMac I have Numbers '09 v2.0 (299)
Numbers 2.3 (part of iWork '09) can't open documents created or edited with Numbers for iOS. Are you still using Mountain Lion? If so, I don't think you can update to a recent enough version of Numbers 3.x (although I'm not 100% certain of that).
SG
Im on OS X 10.11.4 (El Capitan)
Ok. (You have Mountain Lion in your first post above).
Have you dowloaded Numbers 3 from the Mac App Store? If you, have you may have both versions of Numbers on your machine, Numbers 3 in your Applications folder, and Numbers 2.3 in a subfolder named iWork '09. If so, you should be able to open the document created on your iPhone by launching Numbers 3 and going to File > Open in your menu and navigating to the document in the Numbers folder on iCloud Drive.
SG
You're 100% correct.
I had number v2 in my iWork > Numbers folder in applications and v3 loose in my applications folder.
I deleted V2 and moved v3 into the Numbers folder and it seems to have done the trick 🙂
Thank you thank you thank you.
Glad things worked out!
If you didn't empty the trash you might keep v2 for a while. It's different from v3 and there may be features it has that you might miss. (It's ok to have both apps on your machine and you just have make sure you open a particular document with the right version).
On the other hand, if you haven't been using v2 that much, I think you'll be happy with v3. I use it almost exclusively now.
SG
Thank you SG, nice to have been chatting with you.
Mac.
Numbers on the iPhone 6Plus
