Distributing Your Spreadsheet Online
You might’ve heard about this thing called the Internet—it’s a pretty big deal. The Web and email have of course become essential ways to share documents of all kinds, and Numbers offers a few options for getting your document online and into the mix quickly. Apple’s iWork.com service offers a convenient way to review and collaborate on documents with a group, and the Share menu offers a pair of options to quickly catapult your document over to Mail and iWeb for email and website publishing.
Sharing on iWork.com
When you’re ready to share a budget plan with a group of colleagues, a team roster with your soccer team, or a census of the city’s monsters with interested heroes, iWork.com makes for a convenient online venue. The Web-based service is built right into Numbers and lets your group of invited reviewers check out your spreadsheet online, add comments, or download the document in a variety of formats.
For detailed info about using iWork.com, head back to Sharing on iWork.com. For now, here’s the executive summary, along with some pointers specific to using iWork.com with Numbers spreadsheets. To send a spreadsheet to iWork.com:
Open the spreadsheet in Numbers and choose Share → “Share via iWork.com”.
If Numbers prompts you to sign in, enter your Apple ID and password (see Sending Your Document to iWork.com).
In the iWork.com invitation window (Figure 24-7), type the names of the people you’d like to view the spreadsheet, and enter the subject ...
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