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"""Apple tried to solve the issue with "Numbers" but ymmv on how well.""" Your "tiny subset" is your confusion at not seeing numbers I suspect. Wikipedia actu
by hammerandtongs 12y ago
"""Apple tried to solve the issue with "Numbers" but ymmv on how well."""
Your "tiny subset" is your confusion at not seeing numbers I suspect.
Wikipedia actually does a decent job of trying to describe the philosophy.
- teamonkey 12y agoNumbers just doesn't do a good job of representing data grid information that isn't rows and columns of numerical/textual data. Its paradigm is that takes that subset of use cases and cleanly separates the presentation layer. Excel has Tables, which sort serve a similar purpose, but the sheet itself is a flexible grid with no pre-conceived purpose, which makes it much more flexible than Numbers. For example, it's relatively easy to knock up a simple Gantt chart by directly coloring cells, something that I've seen often. And you could argue that it's not the best tool for the job, and you'd be right, but it's easy and does the job well enough in many cases. And that's why it's popular and iWork isn't. Numbers concentrated on making charts and tables beautiful; Excel is a general-purpose programmable platform.