"Zoom" view in Numbers

Question

"Zoom" view in Numbers in set to 100% by default. I frequently need to zoom out to see the entire sheet but I'm unable to select a percentage between what Numbers has in the dialog box. In Excel I can actually type in an amount of zoom. Is there a way to do that in Numbers 09?

Answer 1

The original question was already responded:
As far as I know, the response is no.
The feature is unavailable.
The only thing which I may do is to change the default value to a non_standard value which will remain available.
It's easy to do.
It just require a brute force operation on the Index.xml file in a standard Numbers document.
Changing this setting in a template is waste of time. The code creating a document from a template filters the zoom factor allowing only predefined values.
Create a new document named xxxx.numbers
If Numbers '09 is ste to create flat files, rename xxxx.numbers as xxxx.zip then double click it.
You will get the folder xxxx.
Open it.
Open the file entitled Index.xml
Search for the string:
"{sf:LSWorkspaceCanvasScaleProperty}"
CAUTION: in this message I use accolades "{}" as replacements for "" which where fooling the message parser
You will find three occurences looking this way:
{sf:LSWorkspaceCanvasScaleProperty}{sf:number sfa:number="1" sfa:type="f"/}
Edit the second occurence to fit your needs:
For instance:
{sf:LSWorkspaceCanvasScaleProperty}{sf:number sfa:number="0.88" sfa:type="f"/}
Save the edited file.
Rename the folder xxxx as xxxx.numbers
Open it in Numbers.
The zoom factor will be 88%.
It will remain this one as far as you don't change it from the zoom menu.
A neat way to get quite the same result easily is to work with the mode "Print View" active.
Use the slider available at the bottom to set the scale to fit your needs.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 3 mars 2009 20:56:58)