Intro to Numbers / Using Tables
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Now, we'll pick up where we left off in the previous module and where we left off is that we had a window that was too big, so I just dragged this window, shrunk it down a little bit. That left me with a sheet here that's a little too big to show without moving the scrollbars here, so I'll go ahead and change with the zoom menu, this little pop-up, I'll change the zoom resolution to 75 percent. So we zoom out a little bit so I'll show you the entire thing. What we're dealing with here, what I'm dealing with in this module is this section down here and this is a table and you'll certainly deal with tables a lot in your work with Numbers and we'll talk about them in a lot of detail, but for now, this is mostly a module about getting you familiar with a table and more than that, it's a module, believe it or not, just about what your mouse will look like and what will happen when you click. So, for example, if the mouse is a white cross as you can see here, I will click to make a cell active, which also makes the table active and you can see the rows and the columns here for that table. So you see the table coordinates or the cell coordinates of the cell that I'm dealing with would be, the address would be C5 and we'll show you how to give that or the significance of that in more detail later on. In a table, you also are likely to see, not all tables, but you're likely to see header rows and header columns. So these are header columns where you have things like labels like date, time, activity and so on and you might have dates be a header row as well. So these don't actually contain actual data. This is going to be data that the table or the formulas in the table are going to work upon. We'll talk about how to add those header rows and header columns and how to deal with those later on. You'll see that with the entire table selected here that I can add different types of styles and I can just make a selection here very quickly to choose the blue style or the bright blue style. I can apply the style just like that or in this case, apply the style and it changes the overall look. I can edit and undo the applied table style or command Z gets me out of that last change just like that. So now I've made another click just down here in kind of a blank space and now the table is deselected. Also, if the mouse changes to a pointer with a little cross beside it, not the white cross, but a black cross beside it, and this will be in effect if you're just hovering over or if you've already made the table active, you will be able to select the entire table and know you get table handles, which you can then use to resize the table if you want to. So if you've got a table with the information you want in it and you just want to make, you think it would be more aesthetically pleasing if I gave these a little more space, I can do so with the table handles. Also, with the cell selected, as I just again kind of just throughout these mouse tips when dealing with tables, you can make a cell active if you now move the mouse to the edges of the active cell, which will be highlighted in blue, you can perform some copy and paste operations just by grabbing the cell and moving it to different locations within the spreadsheet. Finally, if you go to the upper left-hand corner and the mouse pointer changes into that different kind of arrow with the black cross, you can click and drag and just very easily move that table precisely where you want it in the rest of the overall sheet and you can do this to move things sometimes from sheet to sheet. So this is the, you start to look at the functionality of Numbers, specifically at tables and what you can do to manage the information in those tables.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iWork 08 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33851 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-50-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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