Numbers User Guide for iPhone
- Welcome
- What’s new in Numbers 14.1
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- Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, graphs 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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Create a spreadsheet in Numbers on iPhone
To create a new spreadsheet, you first choose a template to use as a starting point. Templates use coordinated fonts and colours for a unified look and often include placeholders that you can replace with your own content.
Create a spreadsheet
Open Numbers, then in the spreadsheet manager, tap
at the top of the screen to open the template chooser (shown below).
Note: If you’d like the ability to format table and graph data using the conventions of another language, choose the language before choosing a template. See Change a spreadsheet’s language and formatting.
Tap a spreadsheet template to open it.
Scroll to see all of the templates or tap a category at the top.
Do any of the following:
Tap a table cell to delete placeholder content and add your own.
Tap
in the toolbar to add other tables, text boxes, shapes and images.
Arrange the sheet by dragging tables and objects to where you want them.
To close the spreadsheet, tap Spreadsheets or
in the top-left corner of the screen.
Numbers automatically saves your changes as you work, so you don’t need to worry about consistently saving your spreadsheet manually. However, it’s a good idea to rename your spreadsheet so you can easily find it the next time you want to work on it. You can change the name of the spreadsheet or change where it’s saved anytime.