Numbers - Chart

Using "Numbers",how do I delete data from cells used in a chart?

Hi WR,
You can delete the cells contents, or you can exclude them from the range.. Click on the graph (chart) then click on Edit Data References
Now you can drag the little white circle (bottom right of the table) to exclude some cells from the range:
Like this:
Regards,
Ian.

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Problems updating numbers charts in pages - where is that "refresh" button?

Hi,
I am trying to update a numbers chart that I have included in a pages document, but can't figure how to do it. Seems like I am missing and icon in Pages.
From the help manual from Pages:
*Select the chart on the page and click the Refresh button that appears.*
I keep looking but can't see it. Am I missing something here. Is there a setting somewhere that is not set.
P.S Yes, I saved the Numbers dokument before I copied it into the Pages doc. After updating the chart, I saved it before I returned to the Pages doc.
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Hi,
Sorry for this, but I was thinking about tables and not charts!!!
I figured out the charts issue, but am I correct if I understand that you can't insert Numbers tables to Pages, and then update them (in the same was as the charts?)
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Keynote and Numbers Charts

Searched the forum with no result ... within Keynote Charts, is there a way of adding an embedded Numbers Chart that preserves the mathematics? (i.e. Cell X = Cell Y * Cell Z). Keynote Charts don't allow formulas and when I cut & paste from Numbers, the cell formulas disappear leaving only the value. This is a cinch using MS Powerpoint and MS Excel. What am I missing? Thanks!

nbenning,
I wonder too. First, I presume that you mean Table, not Chart. Here the formulas are preserved and active in Tables that are copied in Numbers and Pasted in Keynote.
Are you sure that the formulas aren't there? If you double-click on the Cell with the formula, what do you see?
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Moving Numbers Charts into Word

I am having trouble exporting charts I make in Numbers to Word (which I need to use for my dissertation). Right now, every time I do this Word (2004) imports the chart as a picture with a black background (making it virtually impossible to read).
My question is whether there is an easy solution to this problem.
I have seen one post in this forum that suggests Apple has a work around. It says that Apple has "solved" this transparency problem. But I see no mention of how or how to apply it. All of my software is updated.
I have also seen the post that describes the long work around (export to a third application like photoshop and then import into word), but I don't consider that a real solution.
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My workaround solution to get Numbers charts into Word 2004 and 2008 is to place the subject chart(s) onto one or more sheets - I tend to put each chart on a separate sheet - then export the charts as PDF files, set for "Best Quality" and to the "Current Sheet". I then generally drag each individual PDF into Word and adjust as necessary for scale and position.
I'll admit that IMO Word 2004's graphics engine really wasn't (Isn't?) consistent or that great at handling non-native graphics, and I've encountered the black picture syndrome dozens of times, and just try reimporting until I get what I want. I've also used Apple's Preview application (via Automator) to generate TIFF and JPG files of the PDFs I generate, and almost all of the time one of the resulting files gets me what I need.
One last method of shoehorning an image into either Word application that's worked wonders for me since Word 2001 is to choose the graphics element you want to get into Word and copy-paste it into Word, letting the Clipboard handle the translation; I've used this technique just this morning to get two graphs (a copied one-page PDF from Preview and a small chart from Numbers) into Word as graphics, albeit into Word 2008 - the finished product was exactly as I'd expected.
One last option is to copy your elements, one at a time, to the Clipboard, and to use the Word "Paste Special" command, choosing the "as Picture" option; the pasted elements likely will look a little fuzzy, but they're in your document.
Good luck - I hope my offering helps, and if a more direct method were available, I'd love to know what the better solution is!

Numbers chart order problem.

How can I reverse the order of a Bar Chart in Numbers?
I want newest info at top of table, but Left to Right on chart?
Must be something simple?
Message was edited by: Michael Q

Michael Q wrote:
Seems a fairly complicated way to solve the problem, which might be simply done with a Reverse Order option.
If there were a Reverse Order option, you wouldn't have needed to ask.
I worked out the trick with the extra table in reverse, all I did though was Copy Paste, then sort the Date column going the other way. I'll have that table on another "page" which the customer wont see once I print the PDF of the original table and charts.
Not exactly "it just works".
No, but if you're doing it on a one-time basis for each chart, it does work. The only advantage to using the formulas is that the conversion and the chart update is done automatically. You do need to ensure that the two tables continue to have the same number of rows, though.
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barry

Re-linking Numbers charts in Keynote '09

When your Keynote '09 chart loses its link to the source Numbers file, and you try to update the chart, you get this message:
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I don't believe so... You can always add an intermediary page between your photo and the link gateway slide. After duplicating the original link slide, make sure that that the new ones do not have the previous bullet point on "building in" but static and already built in. So basically the slide starts with your previous bullet points and when you click the build, it just builds in the next bullet point hyperlinked to your next photo.
It's actually a fairly fast process when you right-click (or option click) and duplicate the page. All you need to do is just make sure the previous bullet points are not "building in." Although this solution will provide the end presentation that you wish, it is not as clean and efficient (makes a presentation with more slides) as you might have hoped for with the photos linking back to just 1 slide with the slide having "memorized" your previous progression in the bullet point builds. Hope this helps.

When pasting a numbers chart into keynote the refresh button will not appear.

I tried anything I read online, like saving the numbers file, having both of them locally instead of in iCloud... But there is no way the chart gets linked to numbers...
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Thanks Gary, if that is true, which seems to be, the re-written version lacks of one of the best features the previous version had. I cannot understand why it wasn't implemented in the new re-written application.
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I have a 2 axis 2D graph. I would guess i have about 150 data points along the y axis for both lines on the chart. I have been updating the chart each week no probem with new data points. However today, i can only seem to add a few more points - when i try to add past a certain amount of data points, the last 20 or so data points are removed from the series?
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Hi Jerrold, thanks for the reply.
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I can't seem to generate a chart from non-adjacent column cells. I've tried this from the help file:
To add a chart based on nonadjacent cells, hold down the Command key as you select cells from a table. Then click Charts in the toolbar, and choose a chart type.
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The feature behaves flawlessly.
Are you sure that you apply the described process.
I selected A1 … B11
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I'm trying to create a stacked bar chart with two lots of comparative data.
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I can get April figures next to one another as four separate columns (2 x basic, 2 x overtime), or I can get all four figures in a single stack, but I can't to two columns (one for each year) of basic and overtime.
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UK,
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What I'm saying is that you have to fake out the program into thinking that you have just two sets, not four.
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