Numbers Wish List

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Has anyone (other than the secretive Apple development people) compiled a wish list for the next and future versions of Numbers? I love the program, but there are a lot of missing pieces that form my own wish list. If anyone knows of someone who is trying to compile this kind of list, please post a link here. In the meantime, here is my hit parade of missing features (in no particular order):
1. Scripting or macros. It doesn't have to be Applescript or VBscript or any particular familiar one; just SOME way to write scripts in Numbers.
2. Named ranges that can be referenced instead of literal ranges. For instance, some way to use "my list" instead of "B13:b973" or whatever.
3. Variable substitution in conditional expressions. Here is an example of what is bothering me:
=COUNTIF($P$3:P$57,">=0")-COUNTIF($P$3:$P$57,">10")
Notice that the conditions (>=0 etc.) have to be quoted. This means that you can't use a cell reference inside the conditional, which also means that you can't systematically replicate this kind of expression (in this case, it is part of my laborious, manual histogram routine).
4. A histogram routine, hopefully one that improves on the one in Excel. OpenOffice does a better job than Excel, but it still requires manually structuring the bin expressions. Of course if you could solve the scripting and conditional issues, you would easily solve this one too...
5. An intuitive use of column headers in sorts. Excel users know that if you highlight a set of numbers which has a set of column labels above the numbers, those labels can be used as sort keys. Instead of saying to sort on column T, you say to sort on Total or whatever. A small thing, but annoying...
I have submitted these things and more to Apple, but that is a black hole; you never know whether they heard you, whether they care, etc. Anyone else have a gripe/wish list you would like to share? If there is enough interest I might try to collect and publish a prioritized list that could be submitted to Apple as a kind of friendly "class action" and might get some attention.
JEH

Answer 1

I wiished to show that your affirmation:
This means that you can't use a cell reference inside the conditional
was wrong. We may use a cell reference inside the conditional (it's only true that we can't do that in all of them). Matching an equality IS a conditional.
In your original question, you where not asking about multiple conditions as you did in your new message.
The unability to use a multiple condition was described many times and, as every user of the forum, you are urged by yhe Help and Terms of use to:
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to treat your late sample the well known soluce is to use an auxiliary column (D for instance)whose formula would be
=AND(C<=A$1,C<B$1)
then the countif formula would be
=COUNTIF(C,TRUE)
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 4 juillet 2008 10:18:24)