Chapter 18

Creating Spreadsheets with Numbers

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Getting familiar with and navigating Numbers

Bullet Opening, saving, and formatting spreadsheets

Bullet Selecting cells, entering data, and editing data

Bullet Creating simple calculations

Bullet Adding charts to your spreadsheets

Bullet Printing a Numbers spreadsheet

Are you downright afraid of spreadsheets? Does the idea of building a budget with charts and all sorts of fancy graphics send you running for the safety of the hall closet? Well, good MacBook owner, Apple has again taken something that everyone else considers to be super complex and turned it into something that normal human beings can use! (Much as Apple did with video editing and songwriting. Is there any type of software that Apple designers can’t make intuitive and easy to use?) And Numbers is a free download from the App Store, to boot!

In this chapter, I demonstrate how the Numbers spreadsheet ...

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