I guess it depends how big your files are and how complicated. I use Numbers all the time quite fine in running my business. It works better for me since I upgraded my memory, but I can see where some people would have trouble.
There are some things that can be done if you want to enter text quickly into Numbers so that you don't have the hesitation whenever you edit a cell. If you go into TextEdit, you can type text with carriage returns between each entry and then paste it in. If you have more than one column, you can put tabs between the columns, putting in a carriage return when you go to the next row. I do this all the time when I type entries into my invoices. This saves time on data entry, and you can edit the ext easier before you put it into Numbers. Regards, Gigi On Jun 20, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can get all the memory upgrades you want, but it is still not going to > make numbers fully accessible. I have spoken to Apple countless times about > Numbers and Accessibility. If you have a large spread sheet, there is no way > to do a find or search to jump to a cell, as they broke that function in > mountain lion. Apple is aware of this issue, and they told me numbers and > pages have not been updated since before Voiceover came out, so it doesn't > fully work with Voiceover. Kind of frustrating when you consider > productivity. I used to use numbers all the time, and several times a day all > of the sudden I couldn't enter any data into the spread sheet. I would have > to quit numbers and restart. I have switched over to a database program as > numbers got so frustrating to use. > On Jun 19, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > >> 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.
