Numbers User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started with 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
- Use Apple Pencil with Numbers
- Change Numbers privacy and analytics settings
- Copyright

Save and name spreadsheets in Numbers on iPad
Numbers automatically saves your spreadsheet as you work and gives it a default name. At any time, you can rename the spreadsheet or create a duplicate of it with a different name.
Rename a spreadsheet
Go to the Numbers app
on your iPad.Open a spreadsheet you want to rename, tap
in the toolbar, then tap Rename.Enter a new name, then tap the Done button on the keyboard.
To quickly delete the current name, tap
in the text field.
Save a copy of a spreadsheet
Go to the Numbers app
on your iPad.If a spreadsheet is already open, tap
in the top-left corner to see all your spreadsheets.Touch and hold the spreadsheet thumbnail, lift your finger, then tap Duplicate.
The duplicate appears with a number appended to its name.
If you don’t see the presentation you want to copy, try searching for it, or tap
and navigate to the file in the sidebar. See Find a spreadsheet.