Take Control of Numbers, 3rd Edition

Learn Table Basics

Tables are the sine qua non of spreadsheet applications, so it’s important that you understand the basics of table handling. In this chapter, I start with nomenclature for the parts of a table, and then cover how to Create and Control Tables. After describing how to Use Pop-Up and Contextual Table Menus and Title and Caption Tables, I show you how to Manipulate Rows and Columns, which covers important skills such as inserting, deleting, resizing, and hiding them.

Learn Table Anatomy

Apple has long been allergic to naming smaller interface elements, but we need names in order to talk about the features, so I’ve fabricated some for our mutual convenience (Figure 14). Note that in the current version of Numbers, a table has ...