Take Control of Numbers, 3rd Edition

Tackle Text

A spreadsheet’s main concern is numbers, but it needs text to identify what the numbers represent, and also standalone text because some types of information must be conveyed with words. I don’t cover basic text formatting here, as it’s the same as in other Mac apps. But it’s important to know how to handle text in and outside of tables, and the latter starts, as does this chapter, with the “text container” concept. Next, you’ll learn how to Put Text in Text Boxes and Shapes, and then we’llPut Text in Text Boxes and Shapes.

After that, I show you how to Use Paragraph and Character Styles. Finally, you’ll learn how to Search for Text and even Search for and Replace Fonts throughout your document (which may not be ...