Numbers User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, charts, and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open or close spreadsheets
- Personalize templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Change Numbers privacy and analytics settings
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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

Use sheets in Numbers on Mac
You can add multiple sheets (or tabs) to a spreadsheet to help you better organize your tables, charts, and other information. For example, you could separate your party planning into sheets for the budget, seating chart, vendor information, and task list. You can also add colors to tabs to visually distinguish between sheets, or hide sheets you don't need right away.

Organize sheets
Do any of the following:
Go to the Numbers app
on your Mac.Open a spreadsheet, then do any of the following:
Rename a sheet: Double-click its name, then type a new one.
Duplicate a sheet: Move the pointer over the right side of a tab, click the arrow that appears, then choose Duplicate.
Add a color to a tab: Click on an empty part of the sheet, click
in the toolbar, then choose a color from the color palette or color wheel.You can also move the pointer over the right side of a tab, click the arrow that appears, then choose a color.
Hide a sheet: Move the pointer over the right side of a tab, click the arrow that appears, then choose Hide Sheet.
Show a hidden sheet: Move the pointer over the right side of a tab, click the arrow that appears, click Unhide, then choose Unhide All Sheets or the sheet you want to show.
Delete a sheet: Move the pointer over the right side of a tab, click the arrow that appears, then choose Delete.
Tip: You can also use tabs to jump to a specific table or chart on a sheet, which is particularly useful for very large sheets. Move the pointer over the right side of a tab, click the arrow that appears, then choose a table or chart.
Note: When you share a spreadsheet that contains hidden sheets, the people you share it with can still access those sheets.
If your spreadsheet includes bidirectional text (text written in both left-to-right and right-to-left languages), you can also reverse the direction of your sheets. See Format tables for bidirectional text.