Footnotes in Numbers.

guinnieboy wrote:

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately it isn't helpful.

I have the table, that is not the issue.

Little confused here. Are you using Pages (as suggested in your original post even though this is a Numbers forum) or are you using Numbers?

Numbers doesn't have footnotes. Pages of course does.

If you want something that looks like a footnote but is really than as Wayne suggests just add a row or rows and add the notes there. You may need to uncheck 'Wrap text in cell' in the Text panel at the right.

SG

maybe add some rows at the bottom of the table where all the cells are merged and the boarders are removed. Then format the text to be left justified

"What I want to be able to do is add a footnote to the table. This seems impossible to do."

This is true in Numbers. At least part of the reason is that 'pages' are not defined in Numbers until you activate Print Setup. If you are not in the process of printing the Numbers document to 'pages' of a specified size, he document is not organized into 'pages'. Its Tables and other objects are placed on Sheets. Each Sheet may contain several Tables (and other objects) that, when printed, will take several "pages".

If you want footnotes, you'll either have to 'fake' them, using the methods described above, or construct your spreadsheet using one or more tables in Pages, where you can add a footnote to a table.

Try this:

Insert the table, place a return before it and one after it.

Place the insertion point immediately before the return following the table. Go Insert > Footnote.

Enter your footnote at the bottom of the page.

Regards,

Barry

PS:

guinnieboy wrote:

How can I put a footnote on a numbers spreadsheet. I wanted to create a spreadsheet in pages but that doesn't seem an option

You can create a table in Pages. Insert > Table in the menu. The table can include formulas just as in Numbers.

SG