Print cell borders- Numbers

I just started using the latest version of Numbers on Macbook Pro. I want borders printed around selected cells for ease of reading. I have tried suggestions found in help forum but NO borders print and do not appear in print view. I have tried on the toolbar and using the inspector. Help.

Hi Daylene,
Is this the effect you're looking for? The image is of the top left quarter of the screen. The Numbers document has a single Sheet, containing a single 4 column by 10 row Table. The visible data are cell addresses of cells in the table. Cells whose address is not shown are empty.
The view below is of the same document, but with one of the table cells (B7) selected, making the table Active. Active tables show their cell grid, and show the column and row Reference tabs.
The example started with a Plain style table no Header rows or columns). Cell borders were set in a few steps:
Select the whole table
Open the Table Inspector
Click the 'outside borders' button (highlighted) in the Cell Borders section.
Set the stroke thickness to None.
Click the 'inside borders' button (immediately left of the highlighted one above)
Set the stroke thickness to None.
Apple delivers a couple of excellent resources with the iWork applications—download links for each application's User Guide and for the iWork Formulas and Functions User Guide.
You'll find the link for the Numbers '09 User Guide in the Help menu in Numbers.
A search on 'cell border' should take you to an appropriate page, containing the article referenced in my reply above.
Reading the first few chapters of the Numbers '09 User Guide will also introduce you to Header Rows, Header Columns and Footer columns, the first two of which are likely what you're referring to as "the side and top bars." Cells in these rows have useful properties not shared with the 'regular' cells in the body of a table. You can have a 'plain' table without these rows (eg. the one in my example above).
Regards,
Barry

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Copy the cell (contents), Paste onto a page of a separate document, or onto a separate sheet of your Numbers document, Print.
Or insert a single cell table onto your Numbers document, type an = sign in the cell then click on the cell you want to print. Drag the new table to a second sheet, set up your page there, and print.
See the Numbers '09 User Guide for other useful tools and techniques. Download the guide via the Help menu in Nuimbers.
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Trying to create viewable and printable cell borders in a Numbers spreadsheet. Is it possible for Apple to make this simple process any LESS intuitive? These guys are trying to push me back to Excel even tho I hate Microsoft which uses an incredibly simple method for this. I'm sure it's easy with Numbers too. Maybe I need another coffee. Help please.

Hi Joe,
1. Correct. I don't see that as a major issue, but you might want to request an 'All Borders option be added to the menu to reduce this to a one step process. The route to send that request directly to Apple is via Provide Numbers Feedback, found in the Numbers menu of numbers '09 (and in the application menu of all or most current Apple applications).
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"Not to belabor this but I see "Allow/Disallow" Border Selection in the dropdown. Not sure what that is all about."
Something I hadn't tried before in Numbers, but it turned out to be pretty 'intuitive.'
Selecting Allow Border Selection let me select these borders (on the table shown previously) with three clicks (with the addition of a modifier key on the second and third):
Click on the border between C2 and D2. Alll of the border between columns C and D is selected.
Command-click on the border between C7 and C8. All of the border between rows 7 and 8 is selected.
Command-click on the (selected border) between D7 and D8. The segment is removed from the selection.
Now that was 'incredibly easy' and 'intuitive' to me for the reason suggested in my earlier post—although I hadn't previously tried this in Numbers, the behaviour is similar to what I had experienced previously in Pages (and even earlier, if memory serves, in AppleWorks).
After making the selection, I applied an action: set the selected borders to a solid green line, 4 points wide:
Regards,
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How do i print selected cells in numbers?

how do i print selected cells in numbers?

As I'm lazy, I use this script and paste where I want.
--{code}
set the clipboard to (the clipboard as «class PDF »)
--{code}
I made a test which gave a funny result.
Given a Numbers document with a chart.
I selected the chart, the title and the legends
then I grouped these objects.
Select all
copy
run the script
I pasted in the sheet to be able to take a screenshot.
It's a bit inconsistent.
Text values are passed when they are in cells
They are passed when they are used as value labels in the chart
but they aren't passed when they are chart's title or legend's components.
Funny behavior, the graphic symbols are moved in the process to the location where they would be if the text components were nil strings.
No comment upon a table's title which can't be selected with the table itself.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 3 octobre 2011 14:01:20
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My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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Printing a selected number of cells in Numbers

In Excel we can easily choose the range of cells, like an area we want to print. There is an icon on Excel Tool Bar that we can apply to the printing are that we want.
In Numbers there is not such a choice. Many times I want to determine just an area for printing, and in Numbers I have to copy that are to a new sheet and print that sheet. This is not a straight solution. I wish Numbers would have something similar to Excel what makes to choose the printing area much easier.
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luizleyva wrote:
Let's wait for iWork 09, or if we are lucky Apple might fix it sooner.
Don't dream too much.
I already saw Apple correcting bugs in a incremental update but I never saw them introducing new features in such upgrades.
So, wait for Numbers v2
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 4 mars 2008 16:42:38)

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I'm new Mac user...and I'm having a terrible time working with some spreadsheets that I created in Excel and saved as .numbers docs.
My current problem is: I can't get cell borders to work. I had an existing Excel spreadsheet and when I saved it as a num.doc, I lost my column headers. I selected table columns for 3 columns. When I did this I lost the existing cell borders. Now when I try to put them back, they appear while I am in the selected rows, so it looks like it worked, but then when I click another cell, the borders all disappear.
Can anyone help me out?
Right now I really miss my PC
People keep telling me I'll love my MAC one day, but I'm still waiting...

Microsoft Office is available for Macs. That might be one solution to your problem and might make this switch from PC to Mac a little easier for you.
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How do i get the line/row numbers to print on my numbers document?

how do i get the row/line numbers to print on my numbers spreadsheet?

Neil,
You could make a Screen Shot with a cell selected so that the Row and Column tabs are active. That's a poor way to go about it though since the result will be a graphic with rather low resolution.
Better to make some labels yourself and add them to the Sheet before printing. You can use single row/column tables for this, or Text Boxes.
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Jimay wrote:
I think I've got it at last but it does seem back to front. I think that it would be much better if you could set the border properties (line width, line type and colour) and then select the cells and click on the borders which you want to have the set properties
Goes directly against the grain of the usual grammar: Select, then perform action on the selection.
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I just built my website in dreamweaver. When I preview it, it
looks fine in both firefox & safari. However when i post and
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Hi Maura,
Nice site and great art!
I see the borders in firefox but not in internet explorer.
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Images can be added to cells only as "image fill." Cell fill is an attribute of the cell, not content of the cell. Only cell content can be retrieved by a formula or by copying the content of the cell.
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I'm relatively new to Mac world, but I do have years of computer experience from a PC and have also had to do with Macs at the age of first eMacs . I have finally decided to switch to the brighter side of life (hopefully ;)).
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Badunit wrote:
Yvan once had a list of all the different localizations. He may still have it.
I'm late but, I was very busy
The table with every localized functions names is (and will remain) available on my iDisk :
<http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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For_iWork:iWork '09:functionsNames.numbers.zip
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The second case may not be included in the available D&T formats in Numbers 3
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The Date Pop-Up
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Hello, I would like to know how to add or delete single cell in numbers.

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If by delete you really mean clear the contents of a cell, then just click once on the cell and hit the 'delete' button.
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