Take Control of Numbers, 3rd Edition

Introduction

Let me ask you some questions:

• Are you new to spreadsheet applications?

• Are you new to Numbers, or to its latest version (11.1 as I write this)?

• Have you had time to only skim the surface of Numbers and want to be more proficient?

• Are your formula-building skills pretty much limited to SUM and AVERAGE but you want more from your data?

• Do you want to alleviate the black-and-white tedium of most spreadsheets by using color for table lines, cell backgrounds, cell contents—and more?

• Would you like to create templates for tables you design so you don’t have to start from scratch every time?

• Would you like table cells to “recognize” the type of data you’ve entered and automatically format it so that, for instance, you can type ...