Numbers User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
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- Intro to Numbers
- Intro to images, charts 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
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Touchscreen basics
- Use Apple Pencil with Numbers
- Use VoiceOver to create a spreadsheet
- Copyright
Prevent accidental editing in Numbers on iPad
To avoid accidentally moving objects or bringing up the keyboard as you view, scroll and interact with text and objects, you can use reading view. Reading view minimises the controls to just what you need to view the content and perform basic tasks. You can quickly switch to editing view to make changes, then switch back to reading view.
When you send a Numbers spreadsheet to someone else, or someone sends a spreadsheet to you, it opens in reading view on iPhone and iPad. When you reopen a spreadsheet, it opens how you left it — in reading view or editing view.
Do any of the following to switch between reading view and editing view:
Switch to editing view: Tap
at the top of the screen.Switch to editing view with text selected: Tap Edit in the menu that appears.
Switch to editing view with an image or table cell selected: Touch and hold the image or cell, then tap Edit in the menu that appears.
Switch from editing to reading view: Tap
in the top-right corner of the screen.Note: In narrow views such as split screen on some iPad models, tap
at the top of the screen, then tap Stop Editing.
In reading view, comments aren’t visible and the Cell Action Menu and Numbers keyboard are not available.