Numbers User Guide for iPhone
- Welcome
- What’s new in Numbers 14.1
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- Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, charts and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open spreadsheets
- Prevent accidental editing
- Personalise templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Touchscreen basics
- Copyright
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Intro to objects in Numbers on iPhone
An object is any item you place on a sheet. Tables, charts, text boxes, shapes and photos are examples of objects. To add an object to your sheet, tap , tap one of the object buttons at the top of the menu, then select an object.
![The controls for adding an object, with buttons at the top to choose tables, charts, shapes (including lines and text boxes), and media.](https://help.apple.com/assets/65E6150B6FF3556065071CF8/65E6150C60D78F13600351D8/en_GB/0fb02de3c9aff421f7ede13d6e071f89.png)
You can change the look of an object by modifying individual attributes of it — like its fill colour, border, shadow and more — or you can quickly change the overall appearance of an object by applying a pre-designed object style to it. Object styles are combinations of attributes that are designed to match the template you’re using.
To see controls for changing the look of objects, tap an object to select it, then tap . Each object has its own formatting options; when you select an image, for example, you see only controls for formatting images.
![The Style tab of the Format menu, with object styles at the top and a control below them to change the fill.](https://help.apple.com/assets/65E6150B6FF3556065071CF8/65E6150C60D78F13600351D8/en_GB/02b1568bfc3b4c20a317d7be25bbf9c7.png)
You can layer objects on a sheet, resize them, nest them so they appear inline with the text inside a text box or shape, and more.