Hey guys, I have had several problems with numbers since the mountain lion updated, and emailed apple accessibility a few weeks back. I never heard anything as I did express my disappointment with how poor an apple product like numbers worked with VO. I finally heard back from Apple and they said Numbers hasn't been updated in several years to reflect the changes in operating systems, and they currently can't say when numbers will be updated. Very frustrating and disappointing. I think Apple should place a disclaimer on the product, as it is very misleading. I work with large spreadsheets, so would love to hear about some alternative options since I feel both numbers and excel are pretty non accessible.
On Nov 18, 6:56 am, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Listers, > > I've searched the archives of googlegroups for the answer but failed to find > one. > > My spreadsheet is now over 100 rows long and it is growing. Increasingly, > Numbers has become extremely sluggish, so much so that it is driving me mad. > The constant "busy busy" message, the sluggishness with which I can move from > cell to cell is making me think that I won't be able to use Numbers any more > for the purpose of working with long spreadsheet tables. Is there another > solution? Does anyone else experience the same issue? I've switched off > autocomplete text in cells and it has initially improved the issue but the > longer my spreadsheet becomes, the more impossible it is to use Numbers. I've > tried Tables application but it is even worse so I have to ditch it. Also, > with my spreadsheet having so many rows, it takes ages to arrow up and down > the columns to get to the end of the table in order to enter more data. Adn > And again, when arrowing up and down, Numbers is very slow and eventually > Voiceover gets stuck on one particular cell and keeps repeating its content > over and over again unless I arrow up and down very very slowly. > > I'd welcome any suggestions. I'd be reluctant to have to install Fusion but > if this is the only option, I may have to. But then I'd have to buy Ms Office > which is very expensive. > > In case it helps, I run Mountain Lion on Macbook Air, 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 > Duo, 4GB RAM, 256 GB solid drive. Does Numbers perform better on newer > machines? I understand I can't add more RAM to my macbook air. It's late 2010 > and I have the maximum RAM possible. > > Many thanks for any suggestions > > Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
