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Numbers weirdness
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Cory Cooper
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Hello,
Yes, that is strange.
Maybe try duplicating the tab and see if the issue appears on the copy?
C
Yes, that is strange.
Maybe try duplicating the tab and see if the issue appears on the copy?
C
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OK.
I would make a copy of the Numbers file, and troubleshoot with it, so your original stays intact.. You could then try selecting the entire table, copy, make a new tab, and paste it. See if the issue is corrected.
C
I would make a copy of the Numbers file, and troubleshoot with it, so your original stays intact.. You could then try selecting the entire table, copy, make a new tab, and paste it. See if the issue is corrected.
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Pasting in a new tab solved the problem! I don't get what was causing it - maybe an artifact of importing the file from Excel?
Speaking of which - I was using Excel until I got a new Mac and I couldn't run my legacy, bought version of Excel anymore and didn't want to subscribe to the new version. There's one thing I really miss about Excel that Numbers seems to be incapable of: cutting some selected cells and pasting them in a different location, so that other cells are pushed down or to the right. If I try that in Numbers, it just pastes over other data rather than moving it out of the way of the pasted data. Am I missing something, or does Numbers simply not have that function? It makes the spreadsheet a little hard to use for me.
Speaking of which - I was using Excel until I got a new Mac and I couldn't run my legacy, bought version of Excel anymore and didn't want to subscribe to the new version. There's one thing I really miss about Excel that Numbers seems to be incapable of: cutting some selected cells and pasting them in a different location, so that other cells are pushed down or to the right. If I try that in Numbers, it just pastes over other data rather than moving it out of the way of the pasted data. Am I missing something, or does Numbers simply not have that function? It makes the spreadsheet a little hard to use for me.
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Excellent - glad that worked! I would just chalk it up to computer voodoo. 
Not sure about the copy/paste of cells....I will look into that. The one thing that I love in Numbers over Excel is that you can click and drag rows/columns to reorder them without having to cut/insert. I have also become fond of Google Sheets in the past couple of years.
C
Not sure about the copy/paste of cells....I will look into that. The one thing that I love in Numbers over Excel is that you can click and drag rows/columns to reorder them without having to cut/insert. I have also become fond of Google Sheets in the past couple of years.
C