MacMost Now 845: Using Categories In Numbers

You can view the rows in your spreadsheet by category using values in specific rows. This is often better than sorting the entire spreadsheet. You can nest categories and turn them on and off easily. You can also use formats and colors to make categories easier to view.

Comments: 11 Responses to “MacMost Now 845: Using Categories In Numbers”

    Antrim
    11 years ago

    Wow. I've been using Numbers forever but never knew anything about categories. Thanks much for that his video.

    Roland
    11 years ago

    Fantastic Gary. I never realized this existed either!

    Chuck
    11 years ago

    I love your videos and find them very usefully, but I wish you could slow down a bit, it's hard to follow when I've never used that feature your demonstrating.

      James Dawson
      11 years ago

      I enjoy the fast paced tutorials and the pause button in youtube is your friend :-)

      Barbara
      11 years ago

      What I do, I play a small portion, pause it, write down special info or take a screen shot then hit play. Also, you can see the written version just below the screen, click it to expand and the written portion is there.

    Suzanne
    11 years ago

    I recently temped in an office with only pc. I could do something similar in excel and came home looking for a way to do this in numbers. everywhere online said it couldn't be done on a mac, and none of the searches I did turned up anything. This is EXACTLY what I wanted to do, thank you so much for the tips. Keep them coming!

    Larry Kraus
    11 years ago

    I've got OS X version 10.6.8. When I click the down arrow for the selected column, I don't see a "Categorize by This Column" option, nor do I see a "Reorganize" option at the top of my spreadsheet. Are these options only available in later software versions or am I missing something? Thanks.

    Kevin
    11 years ago

    thanks for the Numbers and Pages tips, being a new Mac user, you`ve helped a lot, i`ve bought your My Pages book, is there a My Numbers book on the horizon ?
    thanks again
    from the UK

      11 years ago

      Thanks! A Numbers book? Possibly. Have to see how well the Pages book does over more time. A Numbers book would have a smaller audience, but perhaps one more interested in a book.

    Michael Ehrman
    11 years ago

    Just learned something new. Thanks Gary. You are a true asset.

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