What does this mean? I use Numbers a lot, but I'm not familiar with this and can't find anything in the help.
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Apple Updates iWork Apps for iOS With Support for Scribble, New Image Picker, Editable Shapes and More
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I do that too. The compatibilities with the Office's formats are excellent in recent versions of these apps.
I don’t use forms , but when you hit the plus buttons to add a tab you can either 1. add a new sheet or 2. add a form based on the current sheet. A form is just a simplified version of the current sheet that allows rapid or easy data entry.
Yes, better late few days than nothing. I’m very excited to try Scribble on Numbers, updating now.
Numbers maybe lack so far behing Excel, but I refuse to pay subscription for MS Office on iPadOS.
Pages is okay. Keynote on iPad is okay, but Keynote on Macs is great! I even make animated video presentation from Keynote for my clients’ presentation on large scale event.
Numbers maybe lack so far behing Excel, but I refuse to pay subscription for MS Office on iPadOS.
Pages is okay. Keynote on iPad is okay, but Keynote on Macs is great! I even make animated video presentation from Keynote for my clients’ presentation on large scale event.
For me, the beauty of Pages is that it's a great layout program (along the lines of InDesign or Publisher). It's easy to use, fast and produces nice results. I just "Save as PDF" when I'm done and send the project off to the printing company without any problems. And for me, that "Save as PDF" function is how I prefer to share files with people. I don't have to worry about missing fonts or other formatting problems.
Forms make it easier to enter data as one “form” represents a singe row of data points on a table. I still don’t really find them very useful and the main problem I have is that hidden cells still appear in your forms. At least you can rearrange your form list now so the hidden cells are on the bottom. But I hid the damn cells for a reason!
It’s amazing how much more robust and intuitive Newton was than iPad + Apple Pencil. After 30 years, Apple somehow managed to regress in this area. Compared to Newton, scribble is half baked and really confusing. As far as I can tell, I can’t delete a single character, deleting objects isn’t possible, I can’t select objects (I have to use my finger??), object recognition is more limited than Newton, I can’t easily convert handwriting to text, using Notes with pencil is confusing as hell, and on and on. Apple really screwed this up. All they had to do was adopt Newton’s gestures and UX.
Select a cell and make sure that the floating palette you have selected the pen with the “A” on it.
I would hope the price differential was for more that iWork! My point being that Apple gives NOTHING for free. It's all built into that "Apple Tax" that you pay when you purchase Apple.
It really does seem like scribble is for adding data only and not removing it. You can scribble out a whole word but that’s about it. I did find out that you can circle a word to select it. Still single characters are not possible.
As a long time Excel user, I’ve found that Numbers is fine for basic to slightly advanced tasks. It does “record” filtering, complex formulas, vlookups, hlookups, etc. It works very well with large data sets which is what I use it for primarily. It imports and exports to CSV. It has successfully imported every Excel spreadsheet I’ve tried it on. It does many things which I’ve never tried yet. I especially like its iCloud integration which, last time I checked, Excel did not have. And I really didn’t want to subscribe to Office 360.Pages and keynotes are fine and good alternatives to moffice suite. But i cant say the same for numbers.
still lacking a lot of compability imprivments with ms office which is the mainstream software of business world. Ms offices best feature is it is compatible with ms office.
it does not open excel files filtered coloumns.
Except Keynote is not dumbed down and it's far better than Powerpoint, and it's been this way for well over 10 years.
I prefer pages, numbers and keynote massively over the office apps.
Even though I prefer Outlook for email, I cannot stand word and excel and they are not the right apps for a designer type like me who just wants to do things quickly and get them out the way. In office I just spend time hunting around the ribbon to do something simple.
And I only do basic spreadsheets and docs, so the apple suite is perfect for my use [and yes this is for professional work].
Anything else in regards excel I get my partner to do - she is the spreadsheet expert and have no doubts it is a powerful tool.
right tool for the right job........
Mind pointing that out on a screenshot?
The scribble menu is not appearing When i double tap the cell with my pencil.
Single tap would just drag the content.
If the document is saved on iCloud Drive then actually you can quite easily view and update on Windows using the web based versions of the iWork apps on icloud.com which have worked remarkably well when I've needed them.
There is no scribble menu. Just make sure your pencil settings aren’t set to scroll. Tap a cell with your finger and make sure the “A” pen is chosen.
thanks!
I finally figure it out by myself. The pencil scrolling was turned on, that’s why scribble is not showing. Can switch this in the numbers’ pencil settings. Even there’s an option to double tap the pencil to toggle this function on and off. neat!
Ah yes, I do remember happily paying for Garage Band on my iPhone. It's too bad that person you replied to isn't owning their original comment, but edited to a single period. Maybe too people replying to them.
I want to use forms but my documents are shared with my employees and forms won’t work with shared documents. How stupid is that.