Hello Christopher and all: I do not know what computer you are running numbers upon. I am not the worlds most awesome user … that would be Anne. however, I am able to comment upon the ram issue. If you can afford the luxury of more ram, I would do so. now, of course, there may be some blow back from others stating that they can run safari and numbers and mail and the US space program on 2 gigs of ram. Yes, you can do that … just like I can run up hill pulling my groceries with a rope and ox cart :). I can do so though why would I want to if the issue is being productive and comfortable?
The ram will never go to waste. It is a fantastic investment in the life of your computer. I cannot tell you how to spend your money … you would not listen to me anyway :). To reiterate however, if you can swing it swing it :). Hopefully this information was useful to you. Please let us know. Take good care and I wish you enough. Patrick On Jun 19, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Christopher Edwards <edwardsc2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Anne, > > Thank you for the answer about higselecting. I did think of this but thought > there might be something simpler. > > As for the busy messages I am not running a virtual machine. I do not even > have Fusion. I might consider using it in the future but then I would upgrade > the RAM as well. > > Thanks for your help. > > Chris > > > -----Original Message----- From: Anne Robertson > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 4:55 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Questions About Numbers > > Hello Chris, > > You can select a column or row in Numbers by going to the first cell in that > row or column and holding down the Shift key, use either the right arrow key > for a row, or the down arrow key for a column. > > As for your Busy problem, are you by any chance running Windows as a virtual > machine? If so, you'll need more memory. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > > On 19 Jun 2013, at 17:09, Christopher Edwards <edwardsc2...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have just started using Numbers on my Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion >> and, so far, have two questions. >> >> 1. How can I select a whole row or column? A trainer at the Apple Store says >> you have to click on the row number or column letter. I cannot find a >> keyboard shortcut to do this nor can I find a way of navigating to these >> points with the touch pad or keyboard. I am sure there must be a solution so >> please can someone tell me what it is? >> >> 2. Even though my spreadsheets have been very small so far I keep getting >> "busy" messages and often have to force quit the program and on one occasion >> even this solution did not work. I seem to remember someone saying that >> increasing RAM makes a big difference. I have 4GB so would it be worth >> doubling this, or maybe adding even more RAM than that? >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Chris Edwards >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
