[macvoiceover] Re: Entering formulas in Numbers

  • From: Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:40:08 -0600

Thanks for your patience John. If I figure anything about this out I'll let the 
list know as general information.

Cheers,

Ian

On 2012-06-26, at 3:34 PM, John Panarese wrote:

>    This, I'm not sure of.  Logically speaking, it shouldn't make a 
> difference.  I don't know why it would.  However, I have not messed around 
> with ranges like that.
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> On Jun 26, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> You've got it just how I know it.
>> 
>> I was trying to mimick what Voicover was saying with the whole imbeded thing.
>> 
>> Here's what I've found playing around. It looks like I'm fine doing a sum 
>> for a column, but it's not letting me use a range in a row. sosum(B7:B9) 
>> worked, but sum(C7:I7) didn't. Is this normal that you can only use a column 
>> to get a range sum? Maybe there's a different way of entering it when it's a 
>> row?
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
>> On 2012-06-26, at 3:26 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>> 
>>>   I'm not sure what you mean.  For example, if I want to add up all the 
>>> items in a column, it would look like this, =sum(A2:A10) as the range.  
>>> This should work.  Unless I am misunderstanding what you are asking.  
>>> Please let me know if I am not getting your question.
>>> 
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>>> On Jun 26, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks John. It's doing fine with formulas involving the plus sign, like 
>>>> d7+e7 etc. It's a range I'm having truble with. When I go to the formula 
>>>> edit box, I get imbeded cell fields, for example imbeded c7 plus imbeded 
>>>> c8. When I try a formula with a range like sum, there is no punctuation or 
>>>> symbol between the imbeded cell fields. So it doesn't say sum(imbeded 
>>>> c7:imbeded i7), instead the cells are smushed together.
>>>> 
>>>> Does that make sense to you, and if it does make sense, is this right? All 
>>>> the guides I've read are about dragging and clicking and making sure the 
>>>> colours match up, not typing in the raw formula. Any suggestions would be 
>>>> helpful.
>>>> 
>>>> Ian
>>>> 
>>>> On 2012-06-26, at 2:39 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> This looks fine.  Instead of hitting enter, try navigating right to a 
>>>>> confirm button.  I use formulas in my spreadsheets and it's the same 
>>>>> process as in Windows as far as I can recall.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>>> On Jun 26, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Starting to play around with the Nurbers spreadsheet, and clearly I'm 
>>>>>> getting somethign wrong.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I hit the equals key, and it starts a formula. I then type in my 
>>>>>> formula, say sum(c7:i7) and hit enter, but I get whacky values. It's 
>>>>>> addings some things up, but not my whole range of cells.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ok, I'm taking my formula typing from my experience with Excel, is there 
>>>>>> a different way of entering them in Numbers? I assumed there was a math 
>>>>>> language standard. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for help to anyone who has experience with the Numbers 
>>>>>> spreadsheet.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ian
>>>>>> 
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