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I have multiple tables on the same page in a Numbers document. Unfortunately, the tables are overlapping, so that they are illegible. Is there a way to arrange them, say vertically, so that they do NOT overlap?
Neither the Arrange menu item or the Arrange item in the inspector do this. They both arrange the handles in the upper left corner of each table, but leave the tables overlapping.
Here is my scenario. I have a travel document with three pages, one for a trip template with a single table; one for upcoming trips with one table per trip; and one for trips I have finished, with one table per trip. When I plan a trip, I copy the table from the template into the Upcoming page, and fill in the details. After the trip is over, I drag that table into the "Finished" page. But now I have a jumble of overlapping tables, one per trip, in my Finished page.
I COULD drag and drop each one by hand. But that is horribly inefficient and crude. Isn't there an automatic way to arrange them??

That is an unfortunate answer. My use of the tool is limited by the imagination of the Apple employees who built the examples? Surely it isn't too much to ask that the design elements on a sheet be arrangeable without overlap, so that one can SEE THEM?!
in my case it seems a good design to have tables for upcoming trips and then to archive them somehow. a separate sheet for each trip is clearly a poor design. Moving the tables to something other than numbers is unnecessarily cumbersome.
Two obvious solutions are to switch to Excel or to switch back to the previous version of numbers, both of which would support this workflow.
A Well designed tool does not tie the users hands like this. Is Numbers really incapable of doing an automatic layout of a sheet?

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