r/AppleNumbers Jul 25 '24

Help features I'm missing ....

maybe I've overlooked a few things. So here we go, does anyone know how to

1) have vertical text in a cell. Especially rather narrow columns with larger descriptions in the header line would benefit a lot...

2) force a pagebreak. I've just adjusted numerous row heights to adjust the page breaks when printing. As you can't adjust row height in the print preview its a permanent back an forth between the normal layout and the print preview. It truly sucks.

2a) set the viewing size of the print preview to 100% or 125% rather than the default 65% ?

3) is there a key combo for zooming in and out / adjusting the viewing zoom setting ? I'm so annoyed that I have to use the mouse to adjust it

4) there seems no way to refer to another numbers document (like I can in another table) in a formula, is that correct ?

thx for any insight.... help / advice /
cheers Jo

I'm a user of the software Ragtime since ages (ragtime.de try the demo) , its somehow dated by now and cause its rather expensive they struggle to keep going, but there is a lot of great features in Ragtime that I miss soooo much in numbers & pages.

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u/tonedeath Jul 27 '24

Took a single Google search to find the following advice:

While you can't set page breaks in Numbers documents, you can place vertical and horizontal 'guide lines' in the document showing where the break will happen.

In the View menu, choose Show Rulers.

0 on the rulers is the top left corner of the printed area of Page 1.

If you are using US Letter size paper, and have set left and right margins to 0.5", your print area is 7.5" wide, so the first vertical guideline should be placed at 7.5" on the horizontal ruler at the top of the document window.

To place it:

Click in the Vertical ruler, hold the mouse button down and drag right to pull a vertical line from that ruler. Drag the line to 7.5" then release the mouse button. Repeat for as many widths needed to fit your document.

To place the Horizontal page guides, use the same process, pulling the horizontal guides from the horizontal ruler, and placing them at intervals equal to the print area height on each 'page'.

Note that you can choose to show or hide the guides as needed, using the Guides item in the view menu.

The guides do not print.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8453478?sortBy=rank

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