Forum Posts Feed
So Numbers is now an outliner
< Next Topic | Back to topic list | Previous Topic >
Posted by Listerene
Sep 18, 2018 at 02:21 PM
One of my favorite tools was XL Notes for Excel which allowed unlimited text (or Word) docs to be created in *each* cell of an Excel spreadsheet. Essentially, this turned Excel into a hugely powerful outliner among other uses. Sadly, after several very unstable version updates, it turned into abandonware years ago.
Despite its status, it’s still quite usable in Excel 2010 and I use it every day (and have for years) without problem. In fact, if you search hard enough, you can still find it on the net. The last version produced was V. 8 but the one you want is V. 2. It has a weird installation but it works perfectly and the downloadable file is easily registered.
It is really, *really* useful and it’s worth the trouble of finding & installing it. I use it both on my Windows machines and on my Macbook using Parallels.
Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 18, 2018 at 08:09 PM
Hmmm, I don’t think I’d call the feature “outlining”. As pointed out, it’s more like pivot tables in Excel, or Excel’s filters. I’ve tried the feature in Numbers and you need to do a heck of a lot of clicking around and configuring settings to make it look like an outline with folded levels.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 19, 2018 at 07:18 AM
I have to agree with you - not really very friendly, unless you’re doing data analysis. Although grouping works well enough, and does turn Numbers into a very basic outliner.
Ah well.