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Interestingly, Apple's Numbers tries to break people of this (perhaps unsuccessfully) by decoupling the 'sheet' with the column/row/cells grids. You can have mu
by po 14y ago
Interestingly, Apple's Numbers tries to break people of this (perhaps unsuccessfully) by decoupling the 'sheet' with the column/row/cells grids. You can have multiple cell tables on a single page.
When I first saw this functionality I was really excited by it as a way to keep data consistent and independent of the layout. In reality I think the tooling around creating/moving/linking the cell groups is a bit awkward to use. Perhaps some day it will get there, or someone else will pick up the idea and run with it some more.
- justincormack 14y agoLotus Improv did this first. Excel has pivot table support that supports this use case too if people know how to use it.
- lloeki 14y agoYou miss the point, both Lotus Improv and Excel are an (pseudo-)endless wall of cells. Numbers puts bounded tables on a page[0][1] instead of fitting the pages (and everything, really) into an endless table dating from Multiplan, thus solving the "hacking the cells to implement layout" problem. In this example[2] a table is actually selected, and allows for south, east and south-east extension. [0]: http://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/3615/iwork-numbers.jpg http://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/3615/iwork-n... [1]: http://maymay.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/example-burn-down-chart-in-numbers.png http://maymay.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/example-bu... [2]: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1050927588_8765bb65a6.jpg http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1050927588_8765bb65a6.jp...