{"id":1535,"date":"2007-08-23T10:17:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T14:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/numbers-rocks\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T10:17:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T14:17:26","slug":"numbers-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/numbers-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/macthoughtcrime.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/numbers-rocks-i-just-wanted-to-review.html\">Mac Thought Crime<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/macthoughtcrime.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/numbers-rocks-i-just-wanted-to-review.html\">\r\n<p>\r\nThere\u2019s a generous helping of functions, and for obvious reasons, they have the same syntax as in Excel. Not nearly all of Excel\u2019s functions are present, though. Worse, I\u2019ve been relying heavily on Excel\u2019s extensive help system when constructing a function: as you type, it displays the syntax for you, and mousing over each part will show you additional details. It\u2019s very easy to get specific help for each function. Not so in Numbers: you\u2019re pretty much on your own, and help is awkward. Functions are probably also considered an advanced feature that relatively few users would be interested in. Hopefully, Apple will beef up this part of Numbers for the next version.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThere is one very useful feature, though, that immediately made me a fan (that is, if one can get fanatic about spreadsheets). Select a few cells in Excel, and the application will display the sum of all the numbers in them. Numbers takes this concept a step further: not only does it display their sum, count, average, minimum and maximum, but also lets you drag these to your table, as a really quick and easy way to create a summary field. Well done, that one!\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac Thought Crime: There\u2019s a generous helping of functions, and for obvious reasons, they have the same syntax as in Excel. Not nearly all of Excel\u2019s functions are present, though. Worse, I\u2019ve been relying heavily on Excel\u2019s extensive help system when constructing a function: as you type, it displays the syntax for you, and mousing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}