Numbers
Numbers User Guide for Mac
- 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 or close spreadsheets
- Personalize templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Touch Bar for Numbers
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- Use iCloud with Numbers
- Import an Excel or text file
- Export to Excel or another file format
- Reduce the spreadsheet file size
- Save a large spreadsheet as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a spreadsheet
- Move a spreadsheet
- Lock a spreadsheet
- Password-protect a spreadsheet
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
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Format text into columns in Numbers on Mac
You can format text in a text box into two or more columns in which text flows automatically from one column to the next.
Format columns of text
Click the shape or text box to select it.
In the Format
sidebar, click the Text tab.
Click the Layout button near the top of the sidebar, then click the arrows next to the Columns value field to add or remove columns.
To see more formatting options, click the disclosure arrow next to Columns.
Force text to the top of the next column
Click where you want the previous column to end.
Choose Insert > Column Break (from the Insert menu at the top of your screen).
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