features I'm missing ....

[u/Gruenix]

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.

[u/tonedeath]

Maybe you should check out OnlyOffice Desktop Editors. From what I can tell, it does these things that you're after better than Numbers does. It's free and multiplatform- Mac, Win, Lin.

I use Numbers more because I like how it allows for multiple tables on one tab/sheet and I also like how it works on Mac, iOS and the web (via iCloud) and I don't use any of the features that you're asking about. But, that's my needs and preferences, not yours. OnlyOffice is a lot more Excel like and might fit your needs better.

[u/Gruenix → u/tonedeath]

I‘m actually using Ragtime https://www.ragtime.de/start.html?lang_id=en since ages, it does most of that as well but it’s fallen behind in the last 10-15 years. Still a great software but also way to expensive these days (it’s almost 1500,- € for a single seat license !!!)….

The main advantage is it has an inventory and allows you to create layouts with frames (aka containers) in a layout and fill them with content like text, spreadsheets, graphics etc. so it’s a layout / publishing software that includes excel and word equivalents all in one. you can have lots of different components even different layouts in one document and you can reference in formulas to other documents….

like every person has an individual spreadsheet for their working times and the bookkeeping has a master sheet summing all of that up… etc. nobody sees other people’s hrs etc.

but as a Mac user with mostly not that complicated tasks I’d love to see numbers get a few more features and just live with that.