Numbers
Numbers User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
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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
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Change object transparency in Numbers on Mac
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.
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Click to select an image, shape, text box, line, arrow, drawing or video, or select multiple objects.
If you select a text box, everything in the text box, including the text and any background colour, is changed.
For a drawing, click the Drawing tab in the Format
sidebar, then drag the Opacity slider; for any other item, click the Style tab in the sidebar, then drag the Opacity slider.
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