Content scale in Numbers

What is the Content scale in Numbers, and how to I delete it? Explain please.
Greg

Why would you want to delete it? That's like saying you want to delete the ability to scale your document so it fits on the page.
I'm not sure how to describe content scale better than telling you to go into Print View and use the slider. It is obvious what it does.

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Table of Contents and Section Numbering ??s

Hi, we are using CS6 and have a couple questions about trying to use automated section numbering and table of contents in a single document. We don’t do this often (actually, never used auto-TOC before), so I just want to see if I’m missing something obvious.
SECTION NUMBERING WITH SECTION INTRO PAGES
Our document (a style guide) is divided into sections. Each section begins with a section intro title page, which is basically just a blank page with the new section’s title nicely styled. We are setting up our sections as 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. And we would REALLY prefer for the page numbering to be ’1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.’, where X.0 is the section intro page.
1) I can add the sections OK with a prefix of 1., 2., etc. But InDesign does not allow me to start the section numbering at ’0′, it must be ’1′. So my intro pages HAVE to be 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, etc. instead of 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 etc. Any creative workaround to solve this??? We really don’t want the intro pages to be X.1, as they have no content and we want the X.1 page to be the first with content on it, NOT X.2. How do people generally handle a section intro page?
AUTO PAGE NUMBERS AND TOC
We are trying to use the automated Table of Content feature and running into an odd issue. We have page titles on top of each page in a unique paragraph style (H1). We are adding the page number at the beginning of this paragraph using ‘Type > Marker > Current Page Number’ and a unique character style. It’s working fine on the pages, showing the appropriate section numbering we setup for the document (e.g., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, etc.).
But when we make the table of contents, the ‘page numbers’ at the beginning of the titles are coming in as absolute numbers (e.g., 7, 8 , 9, 10, 11, etc.) instead of our section numbering. I checked the General Preferences, and it is set to ‘View: Section Numbering’. And when I exported an interactive PDF, the bookmarks also add the absolute page number at the beginning of the titles as in the TOC. But if I set the TOC to include page numbers automatically, those DO display correct section numbers (they just precede or follow our titles with the incorrect numbering).
2) Any ideas why the TOC and PDF Bookmarks would be picking up absolute numbering while the actual titles on the pages show the proper section numbering?
THANKS!

Peter Spier wrote:
I've never tried adding a second marker to a paragraph like that. Why not use a numbered list instead?
Just checking in here. Not sure I understand what you mean about using a numbered list. Do you mean instead of the page numbers in the titles, or instead of the Table of Contents? Not sure how either could be automated to stay in sync with adding/removing pages and creating the TOC links and bookmarks in our PDFs.
- Is there a bug when the TOC pulls the specified title paragraphs and they have page numbers in them?
Thanks. Still trying to see if we're doing something wrong as this is the first we've played with TOC.

Microsoft Word-Table of Contents-Update Page Numbers

I am having trouble updating my page numbers within the Table of Contents in a Microsoft Word document. On a Windows machine, I would click to the left of the table and then click F9. On an Apple, that adjusts the brightness of the screen or modifies the screen if I accompany the F9 with the Apple or Function button. Does anyone know how to update the page numbers without creating a new Table of Contents?
Lisa

In Mac OSX it is possible to change or create keyboard shortcuts for all applications as well as the system itself.
Go to +System Preferences > Keyboard and Mouse > Keyboard shortcuts+
Select the menu item for whatever application, in this case Dock, Exposé and Dashboard, click on the keyboard shortcut and change it to whatever you would like.
It will then work the next time you launch the application. If it is a menu item the name of the shortcut must match the menu name exactly.

Table of contents: Style and numbering

Hi all,
I've already found some information about the page numbers in the Toc here on the forum, so thank you for posting that.
What I can't find is this: I've got my table of contents with the page numbers aligned to the right side. The toc consists all the titles I've used in my Pages document. In this document I gave these titles different numbers, i.e. I've used the styles for creating a list. So in my document I have something like this:
1 Food
1 1 Vegetables
1 1 1 Carrots
text about carrots
1 1 2 Tomatoes
text
1 2 Fruit
1 2 1 Apples
text about apples
1 2 2 Lemons
text about lemmons
2 Drinks
2 1 Hot drinks
2 1 2 Coffee
text..
I don't want to start a discussion about wheter or not a tomato is a fruit or a veg . I would like to know how i get these numbers in my Toc ? Right now I have this toc :
Food 1
Vegetables 1
Carrots 1
Tomatoes 2
Fruit 3
Apples 3
Lemons 4
Drinks 5
Hot drinks 5
Coffee 6
But I want something like this :
1 Food 1
1 1 Vegetables 1
1 1 1 Carrots 1
1 1 2 Tomatoes 2
1 2 Fruit 3
1 2 1 Apples 3
1 2 2 Lemons 4
2 Drinks 5
2 1 Hot drinks 5
2 1 2 Coffee 6
Can somebody show me how to do this ? And also, is there a possibility of changing the text layout in this Toc according to the layout I've used for these titles in my Pages document ?

Actually, yes, it was tedious, but I gave the numbering in the heading styles a fair go. tried my own indented numbering styles. When the doc becomes large enough, the auto-numbering breaks. I write fairly intense technical docs, with legal (or tiered) numbering, I cannot afford either the incorrect numbering, or the ToC not showing the numbered heading.
Typing the number into the heading, and using say 4 heading styles for four level of detail (tiers), works well. But do not start until the doc is fairly stable, and thus the numbers do not change. These numbers show up in the ToC very nicely. You can use didferent ToC Heading styles and make that look good as well.
And, yes, I have requested the feature. What I really want is the heading sytle to remember the indent/tier level and keep track of it; and not get lost in a large doc; THEN showing that number in the ToC.
Cheers
Derek

Content type of .numbers files

Dear team ,
please tell me the "contenttype" of the .pages file format....
example: .doc....is having the content type as "application/ms-word"
similarly can u tell me content type of .pages
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spradeepkumar

If the document is a Numbers '09 single file,
package folder = false
kind = "Document Numbers" (localization dependant )
type identifier = "com.apple.iwork.numbers.sffnumbers"
If the document is a Numbers '08 or 09 package,
package folder = true
kind = "Document Numbers" (localization dependant )
type identifier = "com.apple.iwork.numbers.sffnumbers"
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I am creating a bi-fold brochure that is a total of 10 printed pages front to back.
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I'm trying to get my TOC to show numbers from the document's numbered paragraphs instead of the page numbers (think song book with the titles as numbered paragraphs and possibly more than one song per page). By taking off the option to show the page number and formatting the entry style I can get the paragraph number first and the title second, but can't figure out how to switch the two. I'm using CS3.
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Workarounds in Numbers 3.0?

Dear Fellow Numbers 3.0 Users,
In Numbers 3.0, some features have been lost that were in Numbers 2.3. However, I have seen some creative ideas in this forum for ways to work around the loss of features yet maintaining the functionality.
Example 1:
http://discussions.apple.com/message/23612026?ac_cid=tw123456#23612026
In the new Numbers, where did autofill drop down menus go and how do I get them back? See the replies from SGIII and Smirhcfa
Autofill has gone. Workaround: enter your most used values into a column. Select all body cells in that Column and change the Cell format to pop-up. The pop-up will now contain choices for filling in other Rows.
Another workaround could be to use a lookup table of frequently used entries (each with a unique first character). Type the first character of an entry in one Column. The next Column fills in the full entry from a lookup table. After all, is this not how Autofill works?
Example 2:
Numbers 3.0 does not show dates in a Chart. Workaround: convert the dates to a Duration (day or week from the starting time) or even a number to represent time elapsed.
Some workarounds may seem to be clunky, but in Numbers 2 we also need workarounds!
Please keep this thread positive. By now, I think we have heard enough about features and functionality that seem to be lost.
Workarounds, anyone?
Regards,
Ian.

Hi SG,
Thanks for your help in this workaround thread, and the "What has been GAINED in the Numbers 3.0 upgrade?" thread and the many ways you have shown leadership in keeping us all level-headed in this transition to Numbers 3. This broad workaround thread can never have a single "This solved my question" reply (sic, should read "This solved my problem").
You deserve the green tick from this thread. Bravo!
New
Thanks Kev50 and Al Gunther.
Both of your workarounds for the loss of Print View and Show Layout are added to the top of the following updated list.
In some language settings, month names (intended to be simply that, names of months) are converted to dates. Workaround: in this thread, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5484435?start=0&tstart=0 the consensus from users seems to be that date recognition in Numbers 3.0 is a bit too clever. Force the month names to Text Format by typing a single quote (apostrophe, ') before each date name. Or, type a space after each date name.
I can't change the name of an axis in a chart. Workaround: click on the chart to select it, then in Format Inspector > Axis > X or Y > Axis Options > put a tick in Axis Name. From Numbers 3.0 Help: "If you selected an Axis Name checkbox, Numbers adds a placeholder axis name to the chart. To change it, triple-click the name on the chart, then type your own." [I am not sure if this a workaround or a GAIN in Numbers 3.]
From SG: Insert Date menu pick is gone in Numbers 3.0. Workaround: create an Automator Service that retrieves the date and time from the system clock and pastes it into the selected cell in Numbers. This service can be accessed via Numbers>Services in the menu or can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut. For details see this thread. Thanks to alexhax and slypix for refinements.
(You may need to remove 'Day of the week' from your "Full" date format in System Preferences>Language & Region for it to give you the desired result.)
Updated list:
Show Print View and Show Layout have gone (update). Workaround hints:
Work out where the pages are in print preview and then draw a line on the side of your Sheet. That line will hold it's position if you make changes to your row heights or add photos etc. It will add pages to your overall sheet, but then just select the page range to print.
Save a modified Numbers file to Numbers '09, make any required print view adjustments there and save. Then open in Numbers 3.0 and see if it prints okay. You may find that one line spills over to the second page; deleting one blank line may make a second try perfect. Perhaps the top or bottom margins are smaller than the default size in 3.0.
Menu > View >Show Rulers. Drag Alignment Guides from a ruler to where you want them. Caution: the rulers and/or Alignment Guides may not be accurate. Try Format Inspector > Arrange > Position (or Size) to see if that works better for you.
Menu > Numbers > Preferences > Rulers > Alignment Guides. That allows you to align objects with *each other* (rather than with the ruler guides). These guides help to align objects left, middle, right, top, bottom.
Select multiple objects, then Format Inspector > Arrange > Align (or Distribute). Also under Menu > Arrange.
When duplicating an object (such as a nicely formatted Table that you want to reuse) select the Table, copy, and before you paste, click on the canvas below or beside. Pasted Table will automatically be aligned with the original.
Menu > File > Print to see the Print Preview. Use the Content Scale slider.
Also, see where you can delete blank rows or columns, or make columns narrower, or drag objects to reduce white space. Not as easy as editing in Print View in Numbers 2, but you are still responsible for (and in charge of) the final look!
In some language settings, month names (intended to be simply that, names of months) are converted to dates. Workaround: Force the month names to Text Format by typing a single quote (apostrophe, ') before each date name. Or, type a space after each date name.
I can't change the name of an axis in a chart. Workaround: click on the chart to select it, then in Format Inspector > Axis > X or Y > Axis Options > put a tick in Axis Name. From Numbers 3.0 Help: "If you selected an Axis Name checkbox, Numbers adds a placeholder axis name to the chart. To change it, triple-click the name on the chart, then type your own." [I am not sure if this a workaround or a GAIN in Numbers 3.]
Insert Date menu pick is gone in Numbers 3.0. Workaround: create an Automator Service that retrieves the date and time from the system clock and pastes it into the selected cell in Numbers. This service can be accessed via Numbers>Services in the menu or can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut. For details see this thread.
Custom Formats no longer available. Workaround: Create a Custom Format in a Numbers 2 document. Save. Then Save As… a copy with a new name so Numbers 3 can't snaffle your original Numbers 2 document. Open the copy in Numbers 3 and the Custom formats will be listed in Format Inspector > Cell > Data Format. The Custom Formats are carried over and they work. Note: copying a custom formatted Cell or Table in Numbers 2, then pasting into Numbers 3 does not work. The Custom cell(s) are pasted as text.
I can't add a shadow to a Table. Workaround: insert a rectangle Shape, Arrange > Send To Back, slide it behind the Table. Use the Alignment Guides to drag and resize the rectangle. Numbers > Preferences > Rulers > Alignment Guides. Turn them on.
Sorting by multiple Columns has gone. Workaround: Add another Column (e.g. D) =A&B&C (or your preferred sort order for Columns). Sort by Column D.
No way to set margins. Workaround: Print the document as PDF. Open the PDF in Preview and use the Cropping Tool to crop out the white space.
Reorganize panel has gone. How do I Sort selected rows? Workaround: copy those rows to a new table, sort, then copy and paste back.
Autocomplete has gone. Workaround: enter your most used values into a column. Select all body cells in that Column and change the Cell format to pop-up. The pop-up will now contain choices for filling in other Rows. Another workaround could be to use a lookup table of frequently used entries (each with a unique first character). Type the first character of an entry in one Column. The next Column fills in the full entry from a lookup table. After all, is this not how Autocomplete works?
Numbers 3.0 does not show dates in a Scatter Chart. Workaround: convert the dates to a Duration (day or week from the starting time) or even a number to represent time elapsed. The DATEDIF function will help to calculate days (or months or whatever) from the starting date.
Regards,
Ian.
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Moving Numbers Tables to Pages '08

Hi guys,
I've used Numbers to create some tables that were larger than 8.5x11. To fit them on a single sheet, I used the Content Scale slider. Works like a charm.
Now, when I go to copy one of these tables to put it in Pages, I get the original, full-size version of the table when I paste it. Needless to say, that does not work at all - the tables are all out of whack and spread across multiple pages.
How do you copy a Numbers table to Pages if the Numbers table is scaled down below 100%? I want the table to look exactly the same in Pages as it does in Numbers. And yes, I've already sent Apple feedback to let them know that this is a problem.
But while I wait for Numbers/Pages '09, does anyone have a workaround that doesn't involve PDFs?

Hi Richard,
Thanks for the reply, but the problem is not empty rows and columns. When I created the tables I used 14 point Myriad Pro. The table (which is an income statement) is too large to fit on a single page at that font size. I did not worry about it, however, because I planned to just scale it down to make it fit.
The real problem is that when you copy a table from Numbers, you get the table as it appears in the "Normal" view, NOT as it appears in the "Page Layout" view. Hence, when you paste it, the table is no longer scaled down like it was in Numbers' Page Layout view. That's infuriating - it's like setting your font to Helvetica and having it come out of your printer in Courier New! It makes the entire content scaling feature in Numbers useless if you plan to use your spreadsheets outside of that app.
What's really frustrating is that so much of Numbers is utterly great! It has so many features that are just fantastic and make my life easy. But for each of those features, there's a basic, fundamental item like copying scaled-down tables to Pages or double-line cell borders that is missing. And the real shame is that none of it will be fixed before Numbers '09.

NUMBERS v.3.0.1

How can I minimize or adjust the page borders in numbers?

Hi herbfox,
Print View and Layout View have gone in Numbers 3. Here is a long answer to a short question.
Hints on workarounds here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23622372#23622372
In particular to your question,
How do I print part of of a spreadsheet?
1. From Barry. (A workaround for Numbers 3, and this was useful in Numbers 2 also.)
Select the portion of the table you want to print. Copy.
Open Preview.
Go File (menu) > New from Clipboard (or press command-N)
Print the resulting PDF document in Preview.
2. Also (not a workaround because Numbers 3 has this feature).
Numbers > File > Print… shows Print Preview.
Click on the Print… button bottom right.
You will see the print dialogue box. Choose which pages to print.
Show Print View and Show Layout have gone. Workaround hints:
Work out where the pages are in print preview and then draw a line on the side of your Sheet. That line will hold it's position if you make changes to your row heights or add photos etc. It will add pages to your overall sheet, but then just select the page range to print.
Export a modified Numbers file to Numbers '09, make any required print view adjustments there and save. Then open in Numbers 3.0 and see if it prints okay. You may find that one line spills over to the second page; deleting one blank line may make a second try perfect. Perhaps the top or bottom margins are smaller than the default size in 3.0.
Menu > View >Show Rulers. Drag Alignment Guides from a ruler to where you want them. Caution: the rulers and/or Alignment Guides may not be accurate. Try Format Inspector > Arrange > Position (or Size) to see if that works better for you.
Menu > Numbers > Preferences > Rulers > Alignment Guides. Turn on (tick) both guides. That allows you to align objects with *each other* (as well as with the ruler guides). These guides help to align objects left, middle, right, top, bottom.
Select multiple objects (command click), then Format Inspector > Arrange > Align (or Distribute). Also under Menu > Arrange.
When duplicating an object (such as a nicely formatted Table that you want to reuse) select the Table, copy, and before you paste, click on the canvas below. Pasted Table will automatically align with the original. This will sometimes work if you click on the canvas to the right. I haven't worked out why it will not always paste neatly on the right.
Menu > File > Print to see the Print Preview. Use the Content Scale slider.
No way to set margins. Workaround: Print the document as PDF. Open the PDF in Preview and use the Cropping Tool to crop out the white space.
Also, see where you can delete blank rows or columns, or make columns narrower, or drag objects to reduce white space. Not as easy as editing in Print View in Numbers 2, but you are still responsible for (and in charge of) the final look!
Features that Apple has promised to reinstate:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049
What has been GAINED in Numbers 3 is here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5473882?start=75&tstart=0
What has been lost in Numbers 3 is here (with corrections where Apple has already reinstated some lost features in the Numbers 3.0.1 update):
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5470448?start=240&tstart=0
Regards,
Ian.

Using new Numbers (V.3).

Where is it possible to change page margins and enter table name in new Version 3?

Margin size doesn't really exist. In Print Preview you drag Content Scale to fit.
Numbers 3.0 clearly isn't focused on precision printing. It's either a design oversight or Apple's vision of the future. It doesn't bother me because I don't print that much anymore (I'm more and more paperless and tablet-based for presentatons and all that) but there has been a great hue and cry from many Numbers 2.3 users. But with a little fiddling Numbers 3 can do a respectable job when I do need to print, either from the Mac or the iPad.
SG

New Numbers Layout

Is there any way to view/convert to the old list style of workbooks/tables down the left hand side ?? I'm not getting on with the new version where they are all along the top as it is time consuming scrolling all the way to the end to get to the last one ?? thank you for your input !!

Done all that. Actually found that LOCK (in arrange) was an issue when I found that I could move one sheet about but not another. The problems that I'm encountering:
1. I set Rulers and go to print. When I return, Rulers have disappeared. Cannot seem to make Rulers permanent.
2. Cannot set "page view" so I can see where my worksheet(s) are on the page. It shows up in Print but I cannot seem to move anything about.
3. Moving about (dot in top LH corner) is only giving me the ability to align top & LH edges, not centre or RH edge. I can set my sheet in the top LH corner. I have a centre mark and RH mark but no idea where the worksheet is relative to an A4 page.
4. Cannot change sheet from portrait to landscape.
5. Also, a second or subsequent sheets do not show top of next page, just LH column. "Page View" seems to have gone missing.
6. Item 1 would not be a problem if I could line up all the sheets in the middle of an A4 page with a page skip between each sheet.
7. When selecting Auto Fit when printing, I was expecting the sheet to fit one page. However, it fits page from LH to RH margin but length goes over to next page. If I reduce the content scale to fit back on one page, the page stays fixed to the LH & top borders.
I have lots of idifficulty with Numbers. I think there are changes for changes sake. Not found any changes for the better so far. Just struggling to stay afloat.
PS. In the middle of writing this, I got an update to Numbers - didn't solve any issues above.

System lockup when scaling content

Today I tried to rescale a Numbers document using the Content Scale slider under Inspector. Everytime I finished moving the slider I'd get an endless spinning beach ball. One time I was able to Force Quit. Another time or two I had to reboot the computer. The document is only two pages long.
Anybody seen this or know of a fix?

No idea.
May you pack the doc as a zip archive and send it to:
koenig PERIOD yvan AT tele2 PERIOD fr
It will be easier to try to understand with the beast in front of me.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 20 mai 2008 09:28:21)

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