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Numbers User Guide for Mac

• Welcome
• What’s new
• Numbers basics
  • 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
  • Customize your app
    • Change the spreadsheet view
    • Customize the toolbar
    • Show or hide the sidebar
    • Change settings
    • Set a default template
  • Touch Bar for Numbers
  • Use VoiceOver with Numbers
    • Use VoiceOver to create a spreadsheet
    • Use VoiceOver to create formulas and autofill cells
• Add and style tables
  • Add or delete a table
  • Select cells, rows, and columns
  • Add or change rows and columns
    • Add or remove rows and columns
    • Move rows and columns
    • Resize rows and columns
  • Merge or unmerge cells
  • Change how a table looks
    • 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 and organize table content
  • Add text and objects to cells
    • 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
  • Work with different types of data
    • 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
  • Organize data into categories
    • Intro to categories
    • Add, edit, or delete categories
    • Change category groups
    • Add calculations to summarize group data
  • Create pivot tables
    • 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
• Enter formulas and functions
  • Quickly calculate a sum, average, and more
  • Calculate values using data in table cells
  • Use the Formulas and Functions Help
• Create and modify charts
  • Add or delete a chart
    • 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 a chart
    • 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
• Add, edit, and format text
  • Select text
  • Add and edit text
    • Add text
    • Copy and paste text
    • Use dictation to enter text
    • Use accents and special characters
    • Enter text in another language
      • Format a spreadsheet for another language
      • Use phonetic guides
      • Use bidirectional text
      • Use vertical text
  • Change the look of 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
  • Use paragraph styles
    • 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
  • Format characters and punctuation
    • 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
  • Align and space 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 images, shapes, and media
  • Images
    • Add an image
    • Add an image gallery
    • Edit an image
  • Shapes
    • 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
  • Video and audio
    • Add video and audio
    • Record audio
    • Edit video and audio
  • Set movie and image formats
• Position and style objects
  • Position objects on a sheet
    • 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
• Use writing and editing tools
  • Look up words
  • Find and replace text
  • Replace text automatically
  • Check spelling
  • Set author name and comment color
  • Highlight text
  • Add and print comments
• Share and collaborate
  • 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
• Manage and organize spreadsheet files
  • 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 between devices
    • Transfer spreadsheets with AirDrop
    • Transfer spreadsheets with Handoff
    • Transfer spreadsheets with the Finder
• Keyboard shortcuts
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You can change text to a color that coordinates with the template you’re using, or you can choose any color. You can also fill text with gradients or images.

Change the color of text or add a gradient

1. Go to the Numbers app on your Mac.

2. Open a spreadsheet, then select the text you want to change.

   To change all of the text in a text box or table cell, select the text box or table cell.

3. In the Format  sidebar, click the Text tab, then click the Style button near the top of the sidebar.

   

4. Choose one of the following:

   • A color that coordinates with your template: Click the pop-up menu below the Font section, then choose Text Color. Click the color well, then choose a color.

   • Any color: Click the pop-up menu below the Font section, then choose Text Color. Click the color wheel, then choose a color from one of the color palettes.

   • A two-color gradient fill: Click the pop-up menu below the Font section and choose Gradient Fill. Choose two colors. The color well shows colors that match the template; the color wheel opens the Colors window, where you can choose any color. Use the controls to change the angle and direction of the gradient.

   • A custom gradient: Click the pop-up menu below the Font section and choose Advanced Gradient Fill. Click the color stops below the slider to choose colors. Click near the bottom edge of the slider to add another color stop. You can drag the color stops and use the other controls to change the blend, angle, and direction of the gradient.

   To apply the gradient based on the length of the shape or text box (not the size of the selected text), select the checkbox next to “Apply gradient to entire object.” The gradient changes when the size of the object or text box changes.

   

Fill text with an image

1. Go to the Numbers app on your Mac.

2. Open a spreadsheet, then select the text you want to change.

   To change all of the text in a text box or table cell, select the text box or table cell.

3. In the Format  sidebar, click the Text tab, then click the Style button near the top of the sidebar.

4. Click the pop-up menu below the Font section and choose Image fill, or choose Advanced Image Fill if you want to add a tint to the image.

5. Click Choose, navigate to your photos, then double-click an image with a .jpg, .png, or .gif filename extension.

6. If you chose Advanced Image Fill, click the color well (to the right of the Choose button) and select a tint color.

   To make the tint more or less transparent, click the color wheel, then drag the Opacity slider.

7. If the image doesn’t look the way you expected or you want to change how the image fills the text, click the pop-up menu above the Choose button, then choose an option:

   • Original Size: Places the image inside the text without altering its original dimensions. To resize the image, drag the Scale slider.

   • Stretch: Resizes the image to fit the text’s dimensions, which might change the image’s proportions.

   • Tile: Repeats the image inside the text. To resize the image, drag the Scale slider.

   • Scale to Fill: Makes the image larger or smaller to leave no space in the text.

   • Scale to Fit: Resizes the image to fit the text’s dimensions, but maintains the image’s proportions.

To change the text color used by a reviewer for markup, see Add and print comments in Numbers on Mac.

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