Salisbury — Mar 31st 2010
We had a rather surprising but very enjoyable meeting on Wednesday evening. Brian had put together a demonstration on Numbers that he said would last about 15 minutes. In the event there was so much interest in what was going on on screen and so many questions prompting explanations that before we knew where we were it had lasted an hour! It didn't stop there. Michael had a few more points that he wanted to raise and so took over at the computer that was plugged into the projector and we tried to find the nearest equivalent to Excel's set print area command. We eventually found an easy solution albeit a slightly messy one. To further baffle the non-mathematical amongst us we then went on to see if we could copy some Numbers data into Pages so that it remained live and reflected changes made in the spreadsheet. We failed! Further research suggests that this is not possible between the two bits of software.
It's surprising how interesting even spreadsheets can become! (But you probably had to be there)
