View two sheets simultaneously

Hi Glen,

Another thing — basically a word of warning p.s. I first wrote this question before signing in. Signing in deleted all that I had written. I doubt Apple cares, but it was vexing.

Yes, it is vexing. These forums sometimes allow you to compose a post without telling you that the automatic time-out has logged you out.

My workflow is command r (reload or refresh page) to see if I am still logged in, and to see if another reply has been posted before my reply.

• Compose my post;
• command a (Select All);
• command c (Copy);
• command s (Save = post my reply);

If I get the red banner "You are not allowed" I have my reply on the Clipboard and I can login and Paste.

Or,

• Compose my post in another app (Pages, TextEdit or whatever);
• Save;
• command a (Select All);
• command c (Copy);
• return to Apple Support Communities and command r to check;
• If all is good, Paste my reply;
• If my post fails, I have a saved copy in that other app.

Regards,

Ian.

In Yosemite or later to set up a split screen view, choose one of the windows, click and hold on the green button in the top left. Then choose the window you want to share the screen with and it will go split screen.

To exit hold your cursor at the top of the screen and click the green button from the pull down menu.

Hi Glen,

look at two different sheets in the same spreadsheet at the same time and spent a bunch of time in this pursuit instead of just duplicating the docs in the first place.

Danger, Will Robinson! Working on duplicates is too easy to make mistakes (which one is the Master document? Duh! I dunno!)

Regards,

Ian.

"Danger, Will Robinson! Working on duplicates..."

One possible workaround there:

Open the duplicate, go the the area you want to look at, select the whole table, apply a colour fill to the cells.

Then remember to edit only the original, which still shows the original fill colours used.

OR

Open the duplicate. Select and Lock the table you will be viewing. This prevents editing the copy, prompting you to do all editing on the original.

Regards

Barry

If you are running Yosemite or later you can use the split screen feature

Apple does not have split views for a document. Perhaps sharing more of what you are trying to do will help provide a better response.

I do not understand how split view would help. Can you share how it would be use for us all to learn?

yes.. but how does that help when viewing a single document? can you actually see two different areas of the same document?

Oh, I see. I misunderstood the question. I know little about spreadsheets unfortunately.

You can post feedback to Apple to suggestion the feature you think ought to be included using the menu item "Numbers > Provide Numbers Feedback"

consider looking at some of the built-in templates and explore the "Numbers way" of designing a document-- which is to use smaller tables where like data and formulas are separate.