Format a cell in Numbers

I select some cells, choose the format but I don't see how to apply the format. I'm obviously missing something.

Hi Harvey,
What format do you want?
After selecting the cells, Format Panel > Cell > Data Format
Please call back if this does not help.
Regards,
Ian.

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Bob

James has the formating part, but if you already did the import you can use the following formula to replace the zeros that were leading if you know it is a four digit reference number....
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Thank you.
June1

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
A few questions:
Which version of Numbers are you using?
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What separator are you using between the day/month/year in the cell?
Are you using a formula to calculate additional dates (e.g. adding +7 to create a list of dates one week apart?)
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Jerry,
I'm sorry for the intrusion on this thread. I had only made a simple comment, and then others responded. It was not my intention, especially since the original question was marked as answered. I will direct responses to any comments I make in fture postings that deviate from the OP's question to a newly created topic if I need a response, if not, I will just add a statement at the end of my comments to please not respond.
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If I am correct in how you attained the results in your diagram, that wasn't really what I was trying to achieve, since if the option were not grayed out, it would only select the same border edge on all selected cells. If I am incorrect, then I would like to have your input.
Once again, sorry for allowing my comment to develop as it did.
In God's Harmony

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any idea how to do it or if it's even possible?
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Images can be added to cells only as "image fill." Cell fill is an attribute of the cell, not content of the cell. Only cell content can be retrieved by a formula or by copying the content of the cell.
Copying the cell will also copy its format, including the image fill, but I've found no way to extract the image from the cell.
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Barry

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Hi there,
I'm relatively new to Mac world, but I do have years of computer experience from a PC and have also had to do with Macs at the age of first eMacs . I have finally decided to switch to the brighter side of life (hopefully ;)).
But here is my question: I need to count words in a cell in Numbers'09.
Is there a specific function combination for achieving this? My idea was: strip excessive spaces, count the occurencies of all space character in a cell, add 1 and voila! Problem is I can not achieve it using formulas in Numbers'09. I have found some help for Excell but the formulas are a little different. And well, I would like to leave the past behind and stick to a Apple programs - if I can. I don't like the idea to install Excell on a Windows Bootcamp partion only for this purpose.
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Aleksander

Badunit wrote:
Yvan once had a list of all the different localizations. He may still have it.
I'm late but, I was very busy
The table with every localized functions names is (and will remain) available on my iDisk :
<http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
Download :
For_iWork:iWork '09:functionsNames.numbers.zip
An easy soluce for foreign users (like me) is to duplicate Numbers.app and remove its languages resources minus English.
Running it you will have it running in English (minus the decimal and the parameters separators, minus also date time formats and default currency).
It would be easy to enter the formulas given in this forum.
Once saved, we may open the doc in the 'standard' Numbers and the formulas will be automatically localized.
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How do i keep only the name of a month in a cell in Numbers and not have it auto fill the date and time?

how do i keep only the name of a month in a cell in Numbers and not have it auto fill the date and time?

Hi JN and Barry,
Barry wrote:
The second case may not be included in the available D&T formats in Numbers 3
For my region, the Date & Time data formats include month.
The Date Pop-Up
This may not be the case for all regions.
Remember that the month is only the display, and the Full Date & Time is still there. If I change the format to reveal what is behind the curtain:
Regards,
Ian.

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in Italy the format of date is DD/MM/YYYY e the formato of numbers is NNN,DD (DD means Decimal).
I use Excel for IPAD but when I write for instance 28/03/2015 the field shows 03/28/2015, the same problem is for numbers where the comma and the dot are inverted.
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The general format of the date is tied to the language...use US english, get US date formatting.
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In Numbers, I format a cell with a double line at the bottom and it appears until I clik on another cell and then it disappears.

When you describe the "double" line are you talking about something like this?
If so this is only selecting an edge of a cell. You still have to select:
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I understand that the list popups (dropdown lists in cells) cannot be dynamic in Numbers.
I have the same dropdown list in multiple cells and tables, and this list often needs to be changed. Its not practical to amend one list, then copy/paste it into 200 plus cells that require the dropdown facility (they are not in sequential rows).
Can Applescript be used to do the copy/paste function, as i could specify the cell ranges. My simple attempt only managed to copy/paste the cell values rather than the dropdown/popup list.
Any constructive help would be appreciated.
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Hi Hiroto,
I have this script running, with one issue.
set tValues to my doThis(1) -- get values of the selection
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activate
 display dialog "Select the cells where you want to create the PopUp." & return & "After that, click on the 'OK' button."
 my doThis(tValues) -- set the cell format of the new selection to "PopUp Menu" and set the values of the each menu item
 tell application "Numbers" to display dialog "Done"
else
 tell application "Numbers" to display dialog "You must select the cells in a table before running this script."
end if
on doThis(n)
 tell application "Numbers"
 set tTables to (tables of sheets of front document whose its selection range isnot missing value)
 repeat with t in tTables -- t is a list of tables of a sheet
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 set activeTable to (get item 1 of t)
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 return my setValuePopUp(n) -- set value of each menu item
 end if
 end repeat
 end tell
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 set inspectorWindow to i
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I would ideally like to add a "-" to the list (to represent nothing selected in the cell) as default i.e. top of the list (i could add the symbol to my source data but that would look untidy). At the moment, after running the script all cell values change to 1.
Oh, what would the best way to modify the script so it selects a specific cell range? At the moment i have to first select a column, then run the script, then select the source cells, then click ok on the dialog box before it does the magic.
Someone else will be running the script, and if its easy to change, i would prefer to have an absolute source cell range values so the user can just rund the script without any selection required.
If you can advise on this, that would be most helpful.

Tab past locked cells in numbers?

does anyone know if you can lock individual cells in numbers? i need to be able to navigate from unlocked cell to unlocked cell avoiding all locked cells.
it's easy in excel, we use complex vlookup formulas that return information to other cells and need to protect those formula cells from accidental deletion. protecting cells is also a nice way to limit tabbed navigation to unprotected cells only.
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thanks...

Apparently cell locking is not supported. From Macworld's review:
"There are also quite a few power user features missing from Numbers, such as custom number formats, pivot tables, cell naming, *cell locking*, password protection, splitting windows, and text orientation within a cell, among others."
http://www.macworld.com/2007/08/reviews/numbers08/index.php

How to print a specific cell in numbers

how to print a specific cell in numbers?

Copy the cell (contents), Paste onto a page of a separate document, or onto a separate sheet of your Numbers document, Print.
Or insert a single cell table onto your Numbers document, type an = sign in the cell then click on the cell you want to print. Drag the new table to a second sheet, set up your page there, and print.
See the Numbers '09 User Guide for other useful tools and techniques. Download the guide via the Help menu in Nuimbers.
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bldTagOn = False
itlTagOn = False
ulnTagOn = False
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--Thanks, John Jacob Tharakan

How do i print selected cells in numbers?

how do i print selected cells in numbers?

As I'm lazy, I use this script and paste where I want.
--{code}
set the clipboard to (the clipboard as «class PDF »)
--{code}
I made a test which gave a funny result.
Given a Numbers document with a chart.
I selected the chart, the title and the legends
then I grouped these objects.
Select all
copy
run the script
I pasted in the sheet to be able to take a screenshot.
It's a bit inconsistent.
Text values are passed when they are in cells
They are passed when they are used as value labels in the chart
but they aren't passed when they are chart's title or legend's components.
Funny behavior, the graphic symbols are moved in the process to the location where they would be if the text components were nil strings.
No comment upon a table's title which can't be selected with the table itself.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 3 octobre 2011 14:01:20
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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Wayne,
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