Comments on: MacMost Now 255: Using Spreadsheet Formulas in iWork Numbers

By: Jo Anne

Jo Anne — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:45:39 +0000

Thanks for sharing this information. I’ve been an Excel spreadsheet user but couldn’t figure out how to create a formula in Numbers. Or more specifically, what to do when the calc box was displayed in the blank cell where I wanted the results to be displayed. Excellent job!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:17:27 +0000

Not sure what you are trying to do. You could always sit down with someone at an Apple store and have them show you.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:45:31 +0000

Hi and thanks for all. I have a big issue (may be for me), if I want create a questionnaire and I want ask for example: how many employees you have? the answer is “5″ is possible to create others five question list for each employee?
(like a repeating as many as the answer).

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:08:18 +0000

Yes, that’s the trick. I guess the feature is the ability to find a previous reference to a cell in the formula.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:43:23 +0000

Aha! I figured the work-around: hold the Command key before clicking. The icon changes to allow the cell to be used more than once in the formula.

I don’t think much of this “feature”…

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:14:13 +0000

Thanks for the simple introduction to spreadsheet formulas. I very much like the color coding in formulas for use with young students. One issue I can’t seem to resolve, though, is how to handle a formula which uses the same cell twice. For example:

=B1 + 2*(A1 + B1)

While I can type this formula in directly, I can’t get the second B1 by clicking on the cell- clicking on cell B1 takes me back to the first B1 in the formula.

Is this a bug or a “feature” that I don’t understand?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:13:55 +0000

This is a great episode! It also works in iWork ‘08 if anyone is wondering…