Numbers User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, graphs and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open or close spreadsheets
- Personalise templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Touch Bar for Numbers
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- Use iCloud with Numbers
- Import an Excel or text file
- Export to Excel or another file format
- Reduce the spreadsheet file size
- Save a large spreadsheet as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a spreadsheet
- Move a spreadsheet
- Lock a spreadsheet
- Password-protect a spreadsheet
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
Save a shape to the shapes library in Numbers on Mac
If you created or customised a closed-path shape, you can save it to the shapes library. When you save a custom shape, the shape’s path, flip and rotation properties are saved; size, colour, opacity and other properties aren’t.
If you’re signed in to the same Apple Account on all your devices and have iCloud Drive turned on, your custom shapes are available in any Numbers spreadsheet on all your devices (but not in Numbers for iCloud).
Go to the Numbers app
on your Mac.Open a spreadsheet with a custom shape.
Click the custom shape to select it, then choose Format > Shapes and Lines > Save to My Shapes (from the Format menu at the top of your screen).
The shape is saved in the My Shapes category of the shapes library, which appears only when you have custom shapes. Shapes appear in the library in the order you create them; you can’t change this order.
Type a name for the shape in the field that appears below it or click the name to change it.
To delete a custom shape, Control-click it in the shapes library, then select Delete Shape.
Important: If you’re using iCloud Drive, deleting a custom shape deletes it from all your devices that use iCloud Drive and are signed in to the same Apple Account.