Numbers
Numbers User Guide for iPhone
- Welcome
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- Intro to Numbers
- Intro to images, charts, and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open spreadsheets
- Prevent accidental editing
- Personalize 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
- Copyright
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Change object transparency in Numbers on iPhone
You can create interesting effects by making objects more or less opaque. When you put a low-opacity object on top of another object, for example, the bottom object shows through.
![Transparent balloon shapes overlapping. The bottom balloon shows through the transparent balloon on top.](https://help.apple.com/assets/6386527A37942448492EAC1A/6386527C37942448492EAC44/en_US/a79c12842c83fe10d6e4478bab591e74.png)
Tap to select an image, shape, text box, line, arrow, drawing, or video, or select multiple objects.
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For a drawing, tap Drawing, then drag the Opacity slider; for any other item, tap Style, then drag the Opacity slider.
You can also tap the percentage below Opacity and enter a new value.
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