Hello Christopher and all: I still cannot tell you how to spend your money … you still will not listen to me anyway :).
I have a Mac Book Pro and I bumped it up to 8 gig of ram and it made a tremendous difference all around. You can bump it up to 16 and I did though it is not necessary unless you just want to make your mac book pro last a long time :). 8 is wonderful to start with and if you find you require some more, you can get it later. this pro still hums and I got her in 2011. Hopefully this email proves useful. Please let us know and good luck. Take good care and I wish you enough. Patrick On Jun 19, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Christopher Edwards <edwardsc2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello Patrick, > > I am using a Macbook Pro. At present I have 4GB of RAM and am thinking of > doubling this although I understand from the Apple store I could go up to > 16GB on this model. > > Yes, extra RAM can certainly bring a significant increase in performance. > > Thank you for your response. > > Chris > > > -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Neazer > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:57 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Questions About Numbers > > 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. > > -- > 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. 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