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Table of Contents

  • Welcome
  • What’s new
    • Get started with Numbers
    • Intro to images, charts, and other objects
    • Create a spreadsheet
    • Open or close spreadsheets
    • Personalize templates
    • Use sheets
    • Undo or redo changes
    • Save your spreadsheet
    • Find a spreadsheet
    • Delete a spreadsheet
    • Print a spreadsheet
    • Change the sheet background
      • Change the spreadsheet view
      • Customize the toolbar
      • Show or hide the sidebar
      • Change settings
      • Set a default template
    • Touch Bar for Numbers
      • Use VoiceOver to create a spreadsheet
      • Use VoiceOver to create formulas and autofill cells
    • Add or delete a table
    • Select cells, rows, and columns
      • Add or remove rows and columns
      • Move rows and columns
      • Resize rows and columns
    • Merge or unmerge cells
      • Change how table text looks
      • Show, hide, or edit a table title
      • Change table grid colors
      • Use table styles
    • Resize, move, or lock a table
      • Add text to tables
      • Add objects to cells
      • Add stock information
      • Autofill cells
      • Copy, move, or delete cell content
      • Create a snapshot of a table
      • Format dates, currency, and more
      • Create a custom cell format
      • Add checkboxes and other controls to cells
      • Format tables for bidirectional text
    • Wrap text to fit in a cell
    • Highlight cells
    • Filter data
    • Alphabetize or sort data in a table
      • Intro to categories
      • Add, edit, or delete categories
      • Change category groups
      • Add calculations to summarize group data
      • Intro to pivot tables
      • Create a pivot table
      • Add and arrange pivot table data
      • Change how pivot table data is sorted, grouped, and more
      • Refresh a pivot table
      • View the source data for a pivot table value
    • Quickly calculate a sum, average, and more
    • Calculate values using data in table cells
    • Use the Formulas and Functions Help
      • Select data to make a chart
      • Add column, bar, line, area, pie, donut, and radar charts
      • Add scatter and bubble charts
      • Interactive charts
      • Delete a chart
      • Change a chart’s type
    • Modify chart data
    • Move and resize charts
      • Change the look of data series
      • Add a legend, gridlines, and other markings
      • Change the look of chart text and labels
      • Add a chart border and background
      • Use chart styles
    • Select text
      • Add text
      • Copy and paste text
      • Use dictation to enter text
      • Use accents and special characters
        • Format a spreadsheet for another language
        • Use phonetic guides
        • Use bidirectional text
        • Use vertical text
      • Change the font or font size
      • Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough
      • Change the color of text
      • Change text capitalization
      • Add a shadow or outline to text
      • Intro to paragraph styles
      • Apply a paragraph style
      • Create, rename, or delete paragraph styles
      • Update or revert a paragraph style
    • Use a keyboard shortcut to apply a style
      • Adjust character spacing
      • Add drop caps
      • Raise and lower characters and text
      • Format fractions automatically
      • Create and use character styles
      • Format dashes and quotation marks
      • Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text
      • Set tab stops
      • Align text
      • Format text into columns
      • Adjust line spacing
    • Format lists
    • Add and edit equations
    • Add a highlight effect to text
    • Add links
    • Add borders and rules (lines) to separate text
      • Add an image
      • Add an image gallery
      • Edit an image
      • Add and edit a shape
      • Combine or break apart shapes
      • Draw a shape
      • Save a shape to the shapes library
      • Add and align text inside a shape
    • Add 3D objects
    • Add lines and arrows
    • Animate, share, or save drawings
      • Add video and audio
      • Record audio
      • Edit video and audio
    • Set movie and image formats
      • Use rulers
      • Position and align objects
      • Use alignment guides
      • Place objects inside a text box or shape
      • Layer, group, and lock objects
    • Change object transparency
    • Fill shapes and text boxes with color or an image
    • Add a border to an object or sheet
    • Add a caption or title
    • Add a reflection or shadow
    • Use object styles
    • Resize, rotate, and flip objects
    • Look up words
    • Find and replace text
    • Replace text automatically
    • Check spelling
    • Set author name and comment color
    • Highlight text
    • Add and print comments
    • Send a spreadsheet
    • Intro to collaboration
    • Invite others to collaborate
    • Collaborate on a shared spreadsheet
    • See the latest activity in a shared spreadsheet
    • Change a shared spreadsheet’s settings
    • Stop sharing a spreadsheet
    • Shared folders and collaboration
    • Use Box to collaborate
    • Use iCloud with Numbers
    • Import an Excel or text file
    • Export to Excel or another file format
    • Reduce the spreadsheet file size
    • Save a large spreadsheet as a package file
    • Restore an earlier version of a spreadsheet
    • Move a spreadsheet
    • Lock a spreadsheet
    • Password-protect a spreadsheet
    • Create and manage custom templates
      • Transfer spreadsheets with AirDrop
      • Transfer spreadsheets with Handoff
      • Transfer spreadsheets with the Finder
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Keyboard shortcut symbols
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