Numbers User Guide for iPhone
- Welcome
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- Intro to Numbers
- Intro to images, graphs and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open spreadsheets
- Prevent accidental editing
- Personalise templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Touchscreen basics
- Use VoiceOver to create a spreadsheet
- Copyright
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Format dashes and quotation marks in Numbers on iPhone
Numbers automatically converts double hyphens (--) to dashes (—) and converts straight quotation marks to curly quotation marks as you type. You can turn this setting off or on at any time.
Note: The setting affects both hyphens and quotation marks — they’re both either off or on.
Turn automatic dash formatting off or on
You can turn off automatic formatting of dashes in the Settings app on your device. Changing the setting doesn’t affect existing hyphens and dashes in your spreadsheet, only new text that you type.
Note: This setting applies to other apps on your device that you use to enter text.
Tap Settings on the Home screen, then tap General.
Tap Keyboard, then tap Smart Punctuation.
Tip: To use different formatting for specific text, change the setting, type the text, then change the setting back.
Turn automatic quotation mark formatting off or on
You can turn off the automatic formatting of quotation marks in the Settings app on your device. Changing the setting doesn’t affect existing quotation marks in your spreadsheet, only new text that you type.
Note: This setting applies to other apps on your device that you use to enter text.
Tap Settings on the Home screen, then tap General.
Tap Keyboard, then tap Smart Punctuation.
Tip: To use different formatting for specific text, change the setting, type the text, then change the setting back.