From Excel to Numbers

I have moved from Excel to Numbers. There seems to be some things that Numbers can't do, that Excel can, or I could be wrong.
- you cant write text vertically in a cell, instead you have to insert a text box which then gets exported into excel as a text box
- you cant freeze cells in numbers
- when exporting back into excel the worksheet tabs at the bottom change name
- excel's auto filter isnt supported in numbers
If I am wrong could someone please explain to me how to perform the above actions. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places

You can filter. Hover your mouse at the top column heading and you'll see an option triangle appear.
Regards,
others, you are correct.

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Why won't cells autopopulate when using numbers on the ipad as they will in excel? Anyone have a fix? I have also created a dropdown menu in excel, but that does not translate from excel to numbers either.

Glad you got it sorted out.
Diane123456 wrote:
> Thanks Vix, Joe, and Mad Dog for responding, the site is
in
> development so it's behind a password, which I probably
could share
> but MD is right, it was a margin issue. I didn't think I
needed to
> set a margin but I had to put a left margin of 2em on it
for the
> numbers to display on IE7 or IE6
>
> This is actually a rather common issue with CSS layouts
(it is not an
> issue with designs using tables) - there are several
posts for ULs
> which you may be interested in - see
>
>
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&postId=
> 1981&productId=1&loc=en_US
>
> -- and once I got the numbers to show I ran into the
same problem as
> the commenters on the above thread, which noticed that
the vertical
> alignment doesn't work well with IE, and which noted
that apparently
> IE has a stutter because it just kept repeating "1" "1"
"1" -- so I
> finally went with a hanging indent and just put the
numbers in there
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Migrating from Excel to Numbers '09

I've recently converted from Excel, but there are a couple of features that I can't find in Numbers.
1. It looks like Numbers doesn't have Pivot Tables. Categories looks like a partial substitute, but how do I create a formula in one table to reference category sub-totals in another table?
2.I can't find an equivalent to Excel's Advanced Filter - the ability to filter not just rows but selected columns into a new location.
3. When using SUMIF or SUMIFS, the online examples show the condition argument in quote marks, eg ">= 6/3/10". How do I use a cell reference as the condition? That way, with a relative address cell, I could copy the formula rather than having to type in the condition as text every time?
Thanks

Paul,
Questions 1 and 2 are easily accommodated with standard functions that don't reuire the categories/filtering features. The category and filter features are short cuts for those who don't want to get involved with programming. Not that the features aren't handy, but the functions will get you there too.
Jerry

I just switched from EXCEL to numbers and have a lot of problems

Problem1. I converted an excel spread sheet to Numbers. The excel sheet subracted two dates to determine if date 1 was earlier or equal or later than date 2. The result was used in an IF statement to take various actions in either of the three cases. Numbers tells me I can't compare "durations" to other data types, and I can't subtract a date from a number. Hmmm?! In Excel dates are numbers so this is not a problem. How can I avoid this, or convert the duration to a number?
Problem 2. In reading the Numbers help manuals, I can't find the operation that corresponds to "fill down" in Excel, such as when you install a formula on a column and want the same formula in each cell down below. Numbers seems to take great pains to show me how to install various colors and styles, but not a simple formula.
Help Please.

JerryS1935 wrote:
Problem1. I converted an excel spread sheet to Numbers. The excel sheet subracted two dates to determine if date 1 was earlier or equal or later than date 2. The result was used in an IF statement to take various actions in either of the three cases. Numbers tells me I can't compare "durations" to other data types, and I can't subtract a date from a number. Hmmm?! In Excel dates are numbers so this is not a problem. How can I avoid this, or convert the duration to a number?
Problem 2. In reading the Numbers help manuals, I can't find the operation that corresponds to "fill down" in Excel, such as when you install a formula on a column and want the same formula in each cell down below. Numbers seems to take great pains to show me how to install various colors and styles, but not a simple formula.
Help Please.
Jerry,
1. A Date is a particular data type, distinct from Numeric values. Hard to say why you are getting that message without seeing your data. I suggest this approach:
If one date is in Column A and the other date is in Column B, you could write:
=IF(A>B, "A is later", "B is later")
There is no reason to do a subtraction unless you want to use the difference in a calculaiton.
2. Yes, Numbers supports Fill
Write your expression in the first calculation cell. Select that cell and all the ones below it that you want to Fill to.
Choose Insert > Fill > Fill Down
Regards,
(also) Jerry

Problems pasting from Excel 2008 to Numbers

I'm trying to make the switch from Excel to numbers and ran into the following problem.
If I cut a group of cells from Excel 2008 and try paste it into Numbers it does not work.
I can paste into another place in Excel, Stickies or OpenOffice, but not Numbers.
I can double click a cell in Numbers and paste all the copied into a single cell, but this is not what I want.
Is this a Numbers problem or Excel 2008. Since I can paste from Excel to programs other than Numbers, it seems like a Numbers problem
Anyone else have this problem.
Cheers!

Very weird! I don't think your table is too simple.
I tried a simple table and it failed.
In fact I can copy the table from Numbers and paste it into Excel 2008
But when I copy the same table from Excel and try to paste into Numbers, it fails.
I can however paste into stickies.
*Copy from Numbers*
*Paste into Excel 2008- No Problem*
*Copy from Excel 2008*
*Paste into Numbers - nothing!*
*Paste into a singe cell - Fine*
*Paste into Stickies - Fine*
AAARRRRGGGHHH

Import photos from iphoto to Numbers spreadsheet or Pages

Hello All,
And to start with: Happy New Year, and thanks to all people here making easier to work with Apple Softwares.
I have many questions about Numbers since some features are really missing from Excell to Numbers, and also since change from Numbers'09 to actual Numbers.
My question today:
I want to create an inventory with my products.
They are all on pictures included in iPhoto or as pdf.
If I import directly from the destination cell via Media button, I find out that the total weight of the picture is dragged.
As a consequence I came out with Numbers files of more than 100 Mo !! And of course computer slowing down.
My solution was to drag pictures from iPhoto to desk and open it with Aperçu.
Then I reduce the size of all pictures, save it.
Then I can import from the desk and have a more manageable file size by my computer.
It makes the Media button quite useless in that case.
Did i miss something ?.

Lionnel,
I don't believe that you are missing anything. It is important to make image thumbnails for display in Numbers, or else your Number file will be huge, as you have learned.
You can use iPhoto to contain your thumbnails, and Media Browser to bring them into Numbers. I find this to be inconvenient if you have a large number of image files on your computer. My Media Browser is so slow that I don't use this method. It is much more convenient to use the Finder to locate the files and to drag or Copy/Paste them into documents.
Jerry

Page numbers incorrect after conversion from Excel to pdf

Page numbers incorrect after conversion from Excel to pdf
""This above link (thread:834599) is from a case back in 2011 that claims to solve this problem, but it does not solve this problem. I think that customer only cared about having continuous page numbering, not discrete page numbering per sheet.
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I still have this issue in Acrobat XI and MS Office Professional Plus 2010. I keep upgrading to no avail. This regression has resulted in a huge time drain for me. If you fixed it, please explain how I can get my hands on the resolution.
Previous versions of Excel and Adobe Acrobat enabled flexibility around the "Page #" of "Number of Pages" (Page &[Page] of &[Pages]) token, depending on context and usage. The "# of pages" token could represent EITHER the number of pages in the workbook OR the number of pages in the tab/sheet, depending on how you generated the PDF:
You could select "Selected Sheets" and then select all or some of the individual sheets in the workbook, and the PDF would honor the discrete numbering of each of the sheets, so the first page of each sheet was p1 and the "# of pages" was the number of pages in the sheet; not the number of pages in the workbook; or
You could select "Entire Workbook" and the PDF would honor continuous page numbers across all sheets, as a single document.
Now, it only honors the total number of pages in the workbook, regardless of the method you use to publish to PDF: saving as PDF, printing to PDF, using "createPDF" from Acrobat plugin to Excel's menu ribbon; selecting all sheets, some sheets, or Entire Workbook; automatic First page number or "1" under Page Setup > Page> First page number. (This last option, btw, does restart every sheet at p1, but it hardly makes sense if the total number of pages is still the total number in the workbook instead of the number in the sheet.)
I spent a lot of time trying each which way that the blog posts recommended and have tried this on multiple versions of Excel and Acrobat now.
NONE of these time-consuming experiments gave me what I wanted.They all insist that "Page #" of "Number of Pages" (Page &[Page] of &[Pages]) is the total number of pages in the workbook or the total number of pages in the selected sheets combined.
The numbering are correct in Excel Page Layout.
The same issue happens when using LibreOffice calc. (Although, I never tested with Libre Office before, so I don't know that it ever worked).
The workaround now is to create PDF for each spreadsheet one at a time, and then compile them using the Acrobat combine/binder feature. All alternatives are extremely time consuming and tedious. It used to be automatic. This is a major regression that has gone untreated for over a year now, maybe two years.
My task takes infinitely more time to complete than it did with previous versions of Acrobat. That means that days are added to my project, when the functionality used to enable a quick pdf generation that was ready for review, now I have to do this very manual time-consuming set of steps to generate a draft. As the project has grown and more tabs are added, my pdf-generation task takes that much longer. We require lots of drafts. It used to be easy and fast. Now it is hard and time-consuming.
In my opinion, the problem is not Excel; it is Acrobat because it was introduced with an upgrade in Acrobat, not an upgrade in Excel. The problem was introduced in Acrobat 9 or 10. Please provide a patch or add-on or something.

If you are setting up the page numbers in Excel, the resulting PDF would display the the page numbers created in Excel. On Excel 2010 support page, (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/insert-and-remove-page-numbers-on-worksheets- HA010342619.aspx#BM2) is stated the following "tip" which indicates by default Excel 2010 starts numbering each tab with 1. Exel's workaround tip is below -
Set a different number for the starting page
Tip To number all of the worksheet pages in a workbook sequentially, first add page numbers to all worksheets in a workbook, and then use the following procedure to begin the page number for each worksheet with the appropriate number. For example, if your workbook contains two worksheets that with both be printed as two pages, you would use this procedure to begin the page numbering for the second worksheet with the number 3.
On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click the Dialog Box Launcher next to Page Setup.
On the Page tab, in the First page number box, type the number that you want to use for the first page.
Tip To use the default numbering system, type Auto in the First page number box.
Also helpful in the same section is the note on viewing page numbers. To see if the page numbering dilemma originates in Excel make sure you are using the Page Layout View see below:
Hide All
If you want numbers shown on pages when you print a worksheet you can insert page numbers in the headers or footers of the worksheet pages. Page numbers that you insert are not displayed on the worksheet in Normal view — they are shown only in Page Layout view and on the printed pages.
Overall it may be easier not to create the page numbers in Excel but instead create then in Acrobat using the Headers and Footers option in Acrobat. I hope this helps - it sounds like a frustrating issue you are experiencing.

Can someone help me change the line width of my numbers table, its not set to thin or none and its stuck on .25. its a spreadsheet i imported from excel.

Can someone help me change the line width of my numbers table, its not set to thin or none and its stuck on pt25. its a spreadsheet i imported from excel.

MR,
Apparently the import wasn't a good one.
The best option at this point might be to start a new table. Insert a new Table, Copy the old table cell range, select the first cell in the new table and Edit > Paste and Match Style. This will throw out all the old formatting. A bit of work, but a nice clean start.
Jerry

Is it possible to show the comments from Excel spreedsheets in Numbers?

Is it possible to show the comments from Excel spreedsheets in Numbers? And can I create comments in new Numbers spreedsheets like Excel?

Yes. You can open excel files with comments and add comments using the menu item "Insert > Comment":
Numbers will export a file as excel using the menu item "File > Export > Excel...":
But will not natively save excel files. So if you will be regularly working with a file in both Numbers and Excel you should consider using only one of the programs as the only way to save a document in Numbers is as a Numbers document. Said another way Number can only import and export Excel.

Spreadsheet imported from excel; sum formula freezes after entering colon and causes forced quit. Adds ok if numbers highlighted?

Spreadsheet imported from excel. Formula to add columns gives a syntax error as soon as the colon key is pressed and system freezes. However, highlighting the columns works and shows the formula as expected. The system works properly on new sheets!

Ron,
In cases of bad behavior such as this, it sometimes helps to close and quit everything and restart the computer. Try that and let us know if the problem persists after the restart.
Jerry

How do I create a series of text frames using values from Excel list?

First of all, this is the very first script I'm attempting to write from scratch. I'm completely green at scripting, and I've picked up a few snippets from Adobe's ID scripting guide, but nothing has really stuck yet relating to this particular objective.
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Thanks in advance to whomever can assist in any possible way, even if it is just a push in the right direction. This script will save 1-2 hours of tedium every week.

Sound like the perfect thing for InDesign Scripting.
I would copy the Excel contents into a text file, to get a format that is easily read from InDesign, and there will automatically be a TAB for each "cell" just using copy/paste.
Here is a piece of code, that you perhaps could go on with (adding variable to change pages and location on page, and other stuff).
The readFileLineByLine function, can be easily re-used with any function using "callback". You simply supply the function to it, that you want to be executed for every line of text that is read:
const COLUMN_WIDTH = 2; // Define the column width in inch
var pageIndex;
var textFramesExported; // not implemented.
// Add a new dokument. Set myDoc to app.activeDocument to use
// the current document instead of creating a new one.
var myDoc = app.documents.add();
// The doSomethingWithTextRow function is called upon for every line of text read.
readFileLineByLine('c:\\test.txt', doSomethingWithTextRow);
function doSomethingWithTextRow(row){
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    // excel file into a text document.
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    var height = cells[2];
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The file in C:\ in my example was saved as UTF-8 and looks like this (showing hidden characters):
Message was edited by: Andreas Jansson

Problem with controlling Annotations from Excel VBA

Hi,
I have a PDF document that has plenty of sticky notes attached to it. These sticky notes have been added by multiple authors on all pages of the document. I am trying to import the contents of these sticky notes, their author and the page number to an excel spreadsheet. I am using Excel 2007 and Acrobat Professional 9.0.
This is the code that I am currently using to import the sticky notes, but the problem that I am facing is that when I run the macro -
Same sticky note contents, author and page numbers are imported multiple times
Not all sticky notes are imported, only some of them appear in the final excel spreadsheet
When I compare the number of sticky notes to that in the original PDF file, the number is correct. But the content is repeated content and that is the reason why only some of the sticky notes are imported.
This is an activity that I need to do on regular basis and the number of sticky notes that I need to import to excel may range between 100 to 200. It is really difficult to do this task manually, so an excel VBA macro could prove really helpful.
Sub ImportComments_Click()
Dim Fpath As String
Dim WordObj As Object
Dim wbkOutput As Excel.Workbook
Dim iRow As Integer
Dim i, j, k As Integer
Dim lRet As Long
Dim objAcroAVDoc As New Acrobat.acroAVDoc
Dim objAcroPDDoc As Acrobat.AcroPDDoc
Dim numPages As Long
Dim lAnnotscnt As Long
Dim Subtype As String
Dim NumComments As Long
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Dim objAcroPDPage As Acrobat.AcroPDPage
Dim annot As Acrobat.AcroPDAnnot
Sheets("Defect Log").Select
Range("L3").Activate
Fpath = ActiveCell.Value
Sheets("Defect Log").Select
Range("A1").Activate
i = 0
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i = i + 1
ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Select
Loop
iRow = i + 1
Set wbkOutput = ActiveWorkbook
lRet = objAcroAVDoc.Open(Fpath, "")
Set objAcroPDDoc = objAcroAVDoc.GetPDDoc
numPages = objAcroPDDoc.GetNumPages()
Set objAcroPDPage = objAcroPDDoc.AcquirePage(0)
For k = 1 To numPages
lAnnotscnt = objAcroPDPage.GetNumAnnots()
For m = 0 To lAnnotscnt - 1
If lAnnotscnt = 0 Then Exit For
Set objAcroPDAnnot = objAcroPDPage.GetAnnot(m)
If (objAcroPDAnnot.GetContents <> "" And objAcroPDAnnot.GetSubtype = "Text") Then
Cells(iRow, 5).Value = k
Cells(iRow, 2).Value = objAcroPDAnnot.GetContents()
Cells(iRow, 11).Value = objAcroPDAnnot.GetTitle()
iRow = iRow + 1
End If
Next m
Set objAcroPDPage = objAcroPDDoc.AcquirePage(k)
Next k
lRet = objAcroAVDoc.Close(1)
Set objAcroAVDoc = Nothing
Set objAcroPDAnnot = Nothing
Set objAcroPDPage = Nothing
Set objAcroPDDoc = Nothing
End Sub

Make sure you are current with 9.x patches, just on general principles.
The code seems fine – nothing jumping out at me.
You can also look at using the JSObject methods and trying this via the JavaScript stuff – that will give you more access to the Annotation information…
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Issues with importing from excel

I have been running into a several issues with importing from Excel.
First my configuration
I am running SQL Developer ver 1.5.5 Build MAIN-5969
I am on a Windows XP Professional Version 2002 with Service Pack 3
I am importing into an Oracle 10g database.
1. SQL Developer doesn't work on Excel 2007, I have to save all my files into Excel 97-2003 format before I can use them.
2. If I run into an error loading and stop the process, SQL Developer doesn't release the Excel file and I get a sharing violation if I try to save the spreadsheet without closing SQL Developer.
3. I have found that I have to set print area to the area I want to work with, otherwise the import wizard tries to keep adding rows.
4. When using the Import wizard, it keeps adding commas on fields with numerics unless I specify the column in excel as text. Currently the column is formatted as General in the spreadsheet or I can change the wizard format to say the column is an integer, but it actually is just a code field with numeric characters so it may have leading zeroes that I need to keep.
This might be related,
I have a column in excel defined as text but only contains numerics. It is of length 4, but the wizard sets a precision of 5 with a datatype of VARCHAR2. If I try to change it to 4, I get an error saying the field is not large enough. Yet, when I do a LEN on the column, it only gives me a 4. I have other fields in the same sheet that a 3 position numeric and 2 position numeric and those are fine. I am thinking this is related to the comma being inserted in a numeric field for anything greater than 3 positions.
5. Importing excel dates to oracle dates doesn't work. I have to convert the excel date column to text then import as a VARCHAR, then convert to Date once in the database.
6. The default of nullible is not set on any columns and I have to set them before the import. (I would prefer it set to nullible and I have to uncheck the box to make it not nullible. I would prefer to import all of the data and then deal with the nulls after they have been pulled in)
7. When I select header columns included it uses that as the column names. Is it possible to do the name length check then? It has bit me a few times where I try to import and forget to check the name length and then I get an error when I start running the import.
8. If one of the columns to import has all nulls, then the precision comes out to 0 and if it isn't changed an error occurs on import. Could this situation default to a precision of 1?
9. It would be nice if there was a completion message displayed and a cancel option while running.

On point 3.
I have a column in excel that consists of numbers. 4 digit numeric codes. Ex, 1111, 2345, etc
The column's format is general. It displays as just 4 numbers.
When I start the wizard initially, the column appears with data as 1,111, 2,345, etc, on the Data Preview screen.
It determines the precision to be 5 on the column definition screen.
If I change the precision to 4 then continue, that field will error out when I verify with "not big enough to hold the data in source columns"
If, I change the excel column to a TEXT column.
Excel still displays as 1111, 2345, etc
The wizard then displays the same data 1111, 2345 on the Data Previeiw screen
Yet, when I get to the column definition screen it still sizes it as a 5
If I change it to a 4, I get the same error when verifying.
If I leave them alone as 5, then it processes just fine.

How to randomly select data from excel using labview.

A very good day to all. I am actually working on a system that will be selecting integer number from randomly generated set of number. If that wouldnt be possible, I would like the system to be able to select number from the set of numbers which have already been randomly generated from excel. kindly help me with the solution. To make myself clear, supposing I have set of numbers from 1 to 10, I want a labview setup that will be picking these numbers one after the other either with replacement or without from excel or self generated. I know this is possible in matlab but would prefer labview if possible. Thanks
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Go to Solution.

Most, if not all, of the languages I've run across have a rand() function that returns a random number between 0 and 1. Getting some other range is up to the programmer. Usual method is to multiply by the range you need and add an offset to adjust the mean. For instance if you need a random number between 200 and 300 the formula might look like " rand()*100+200 ". If you need an integer, you can use the round function (which will leave it as a float with no decimal pportion) or the conversion (to int). All of this is doable and straightforward in LabVIEW. Have a look: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/FCCDCD678EEF3A9186256D7B008054F5
If you feel more comfortable pulling from a file, try this: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/C944B961B59516208625755A005955F2

Import data from excel explanation

Running SAP B1 2007 A PL49.
In the import data from excel functionality, using items. There are 2 checkboxes that appear:
update existing records
update accounts in existing items
can anyone explain what each checkbox means?
Thanks,
Rich

hi Rich,
Update Existing Records
The system overwrites the data in the corresponding fields of the existing master records.
The numbers of the master records for business partners or items cannot be overwritten.
The type of a business partner cannot be changed once business transactions have been entered for that partner.
Update Accts in Existing Items
When importing item data, you can also update the information for the expense and revenue accounts.
To overwrite the respective item master data record
regards,
Fidel

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