I’m a longtime AppleWorks user. For a somewhat clunky all-in-one, it’s a pretty capable piece of software, capable of leaping tall bounds, and its spreadsheet has almost all the functionality you’d ever need. But my shiny new copy of iWork arrived a few weeks ago, so I’ve been trying to wrap my head around Numbers, its new spreadsheet piece.
Yesterday I went looking for how to do a “data fill” in Numbers — I needed a column filled with the numbers from 205 to 386 and I didn’t want to type them all in. In AppleWorks this was done by selecting Calculate \| Fill Special from the menu, followed by entry of a start value and an increment. In Numbers it’s almost unbelievably intuitive (so intuitive I couldn’t intuit it). Witness the following 10-second how-to video (created in the equally too-intuitive new iMovie):
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The porn-music is my own addition. Obviously I have a complex relationship with data.
This has also been the way Excel has done data fill for at least 10 years.
Most of my usage is with simple worksheets that benefit from extensive formatting - ‘Numbers’ is a boon for this. It has some strange limitations though: there isn’t much flexibility in the creation of page headers (especially with graphics), and there’s no Applescript support yet!
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