Take Control of Numbers

Importing, Exporting, and Sharing Files

There’s lots of talk, much of it snide, regarding the Apple “ecosystem” and its “walled garden” of hardware and software that work together—and alone, not playing well with others. If there’s any place Apple and Mac users can’t ignore the outside world, it’s the spreadsheet arena, where Excel has worn the laurels for decades. This chapter explains how you exchange files with Excel, Import and Export Text Files, and Share with iCloud.

Note: When it comes to its predecessor’s files, Numbers 3 takes the not entirely unreasonable yet often inconvenient stance of being able to open Numbers ’09 files but not export to that format. If you must share a spreadsheet with an ’09 user, you’ll have to export it in ...