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

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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.

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

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Is there anything published that will give me an idea of how much time I will need to migrate my applications?

I'd ask them over here.
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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.
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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
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Can the uses import from excel?

Apex comes with a neat feature to import from excel. As far as I can see this is meant as a developer tool, to help migrate from excel to apex. Can this feature be provided to the users inside an application? I would like for the users to be able to insert rows into a predefined table based on their excel sheets. Similar to the import feature they should be able to just cut'n paste from excel into a text area, click next and then get a neat display of the data they are about to insert (just like in the tool->data load/unload tool).

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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.
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Tip To use the default numbering system, type Auto in the First page number box.
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Hide All
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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.
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