Numbers
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
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Use alignment guides in Numbers on iPad
Use alignment and spacing guides to help you place objects precisely on a sheet. When guides are turned on, they appear as you drag an object on a sheet in alignment with, or equidistant to, another object. You can turn the guides off and on as needed.
![Alignment guidelines over two objects.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5F9860080946222A7A00813B/5F98600C0946222A7A008157/en_GB/1c0b29a975949f3b1a6fb92f26ec7be4.png)
Turn on alignment guides
Tap
, then tap Guides.
Tap to turn on a guide:
Edge Guides: Appear when an object’s edges align with the edges of another object.
Centre Guides: Appear when an object’s centre aligns with another object or the centre of the sheet.
Spacing Guides: Indicate when three or more objects are placed equally apart in a line.
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