Numbers User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, charts and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open or close spreadsheets
- Personalise templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Touch Bar for Numbers
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- Use iCloud with Numbers
- Import an Excel or text file
- Export to Excel or another file format
- Reduce the spreadsheet file size
- Save a large spreadsheet as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a spreadsheet
- Move a spreadsheet
- Lock a spreadsheet
- Password-protect a spreadsheet
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
Quickly calculate a sum, average and more in Numbers on Mac
You can make calculations in your table without having to insert a formula or function.
Make quick calculations for a range of cells
Go to the Numbers app on your Mac.
In a spreadsheet, select the column or row (or the range of cells) whose calculations you want to see.
Calculations for the selected cells — for example, the sum, average, minimum, maximum — appear at the bottom of the window.
To add a formula with the calculation to your table, drag the calculation to a table cell.
Change the instant calculation options
You can add or remove the functions you see when you select a range of cells.
Go to the Numbers app on your Mac.
In a spreadsheet, select the column or row (or the range of cells) whose calculations you want to see.
Click , then choose the functions you want to add or remove.
Use the Formula Editor like a calculator
You can enter number values in formulas to make calculations, just as you would in a calculator.
Go to the Numbers app on your Mac.
In a spreadsheet, click a blank cell where you want to add your formula, then type the equals sign (=) to open the Formula Editor.
Type the equation you want to calculate, using values and arithmetic operators (for example, + ,- , * and /).
For example, if you type the equals sign (=), then type “1+1” in the Formula Editor, the cell returns the result of 2. You can also use brackets; if you type 4+6*(3-1), the cell returns the result of 16.