I hate transparent spreadsheets.

Numbers 3.5.2 has (on my computer) transparent spreadsheets. You can see the data in the cells of spreadsheets beneath the one you are looking at if you have them overlapping. How do I make the spreadsheets behave like a piece of paper? I do not want to look through any of the spreadsheets. This is like printing spreadsheets on transparency plastic rather than paper.

Hi johnhs,
Select the table (Bullseye upper left)
I choose the white color fill.
quinn

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Why oh why do people hate them so much! I'm a friend of local variables!
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my code evolves and tends to sprawl a bit.
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