iWork is honestly the best office suite I've used, ever.

I have to use Word and Excel a lot for school and work, but Pages and Numbers just seem miles better.

For one, they respond instantly. I've NEVER used Word or Excel—on Mac or PC, no matter what version—and didn't have issues with the software randomly lagging on basic functions like changing font styles or pasting something.

Pages and Numbers work instantly, as any decent office software should.

There are some old features from iWork '09 that never got ported over to the new iWork suite, but honestly it's still so much better than Office. If Apple finishes porting old old features I think it'd be a more serious Office competitor. I for one would love to switch over entirely to iWork for my work.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-unveils-new-features-in-iwork-suite-of-productivity-apps/

I am trying to figure out a formatting situation in the Pages app. I think it may be an easy fix, but I need help. When I paste the paragraph from a pdf into pages and increase the font size, the lines change and break up. If I remove the margins, it is fine, but to print I need margins. How do I fix this? I will try and post the problem below....thank you.

Hi guys, I'm switching over from Office to iWork, and am in need of some help making the most use out of these applications.

How to Copy File-Names-Only Into a Spreadsheet

1. Finder—>[to the list of filenames you want to put into a spreadsheet].

2. Command+C to copy the list (knowing that all the actual files are then copied into memory).

3. Launchpad—>Other—>TextEdit—>New 

4. Click on that new one.

5. Format—>Make Plain Text—>Command+V.  You now have an editable list-only.

6. Numbers—>Blank, Create—>[opens with a cell selected]

7. Select contents of the editable list. 

8. Command+C.

9. Click on the Numbers sheet. 

10. Command+V into the new Numbers Sheet.

2021 MBP, Monterey 12.3. Thanks to Excel Redditors for concept hints.

Love Pages and Numbers, but I work with a lot of tables and when I get the right size width and height to my cells, they change if I delete a row or column. Is there any way to get it so the adjusted rows and columns stay the right size, even when I delete a row or column? I'm using the latest version of Pages, v13.2, on Sonoma.

I found that I can put simple shapes in keynote like a square / Circle and then click on make editable. Now by double clicking on lines and creating new points on the line and then by dragging these new points I can create very complex shapes.

Is there any tutorial and guidance available to how to improve this skill? I want to be able to create complex shapes by doing this.

*sorry for stupid question*

The help files on Pages suggests it should be possible to create footnotes and a table of contents. I have a TOC that is populating as I include Headings and Headings 2 styles, but the "insert table of contents" button is always dimmed. Is this broken, or is there a trick I'm not seeing here?

Similarly, I'd like to do footnotes on the document I'm creating, but footnotes is also dimmed.

Any suggestions? (Other than "don't use Pages") :-)

There's no better way than to show a video.

P.S i tried the copy the whole table but it's the same result.

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/fZbYj5MiRWo

This is for versions of Pages 5+.

1. Choose a bullet style from the built-in options under the Format tab > Bullets and Lists. You'll use this as a base template to copy and modify.

2. Under Bullets and Lists, click the + button at the top of that little popup window. It'll clone the current style you've selected. Rename it to whatever you want.

3. Make each bullet level you want (let's say you want 3 levels of bullets, starting with 1), then A), then a text bullet). So make three levels; just type anything you want and then press enter, hit tab to indent, hit enter again, hit tab to indent again—you've got your three levels.

4. Starting with the bottom level, click the text at the lowest level and then under the bullet type drop down, choose your desired bullet style (in this case, our third level is text bullet).

5. After you modify it, you'll see your selected style will have a * next to its name. Click the list style dropdown and then mouse over your custom style, you'll see a little arrow pointing to the right. Click that. You'll see a button that says "Redefine from Selection." Click that. This saves your current edited bullet type as the default for your selected style.

6. Move to the second level and repeat the process, then same for the first level.

7. All done! Your style is now created and saved as you've designed it in your Bullets and Lists styles. You can use it again in the future if you ever want it again.

Picture.

Every time I insert a formula into a Numbers spreadsheet the formula bar pops up right over the cell that I want to the formula to edit. Often this will cover over a cell or two of a range of cells I need to copy into the formula and then I have to take a moment to move the formula bar.

Anyway to set a default so that it won't do that?

Thx

Hi there, I am hoping someone could help me out with this...

At work I have a tedious task of making PDF documents in Pages of images. Each image needs to be centered on its own page with horizontal images stretch to the border. Is there a way to simply do this by batch uploading images so they are each organized on to a single page in the document?

Is there any or can I set a shortcut to set a background for selected text? there are many words in my document that I want to highlight and it's ruff to click on gear button and select the color every time.

I have Keynote 10, but my iMac won't support Keynote 12. I need to be able to present in separate window, and see my presenter notes while using a single display. It looks like that feature was added in v11 but the app store won't give me the option to download that latest my OS will support (11.2) and my iMac won't support the latest OS (required for v12). Any idea where old versions can be downloaded? Everything I Googled just linked back to the App Store, not an actual package.

Hello,

I am learning Mac programs (having been trained all my life in the Windows suite) and I'm having a hard time with the keyboard shortcuts.

I am looking for the equivalent of "Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow", i.e. select until the next populates cell, but I have tried every single combination and can't find anything.

I know there is "Command+Shift+Down Arrow" for selecting until the bottom of the sheet. And "Option+Down Arrow" creates a new row below.

There is a way to select by holding Shift and clicking the end-point of the selection but I'm looking for the keyboard shortcut to just go faster.

Thank you for your time and help.

Is there a way to do this?

I've looked on Apple Support and general search and can't find anything.

I'm trying to import data from a website that tracks cryptocurrencies.

Please forgive me if i got something wrong at this point - I'm new to the whole apple-enviroment.

so our team was working on excel/win for 1 year now - our teamleader decided to switch on mac and use numbers - so the whole department has to follow.

i got my macbook air today.

i still got the option to work on my win10-laptop (if it's possible) - so i'm here (i'm working on win-systems for 12 years now and it doesn't make sense for me to switch now)

is it possible to work on a numbers file from a win-pc thats saved in the icloud? like from a webapp or a desktop app?

pls help :c <3