Take Control of Numbers

Table Basics

Tables are the sine qua non of spreadsheet applications, so it’s important that you understand the basics of table handling, whether you’ve never used a spreadsheet program or are accustomed to the Excel or Google Sheets approach where table=spreadsheet=table.

In this chapter, we start with Numbers’ nomenclature for the parts of a table, and then move on to Creating and Controlling Tables and Naming a Table. After a tour of Pop-up and Contextual Table Menus, we’ll move on to Rows and Columns, which includes important skills such as inserting, deleting, resizing, and hiding them.

Note: When it comes to the next (granularly speaking) element in a table—cells—there’s so much to cover that it’s in its own chapter, Cell Basics.

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