Hi, I'm revisiting tables. I think I might buy it. It's tediously slow, but I can press command shift A and bring up a go to range dialog which is similar to the one in excel. Then I can type the cell I want to visit, even if it's 80 or 100 rows down the table and I will eventually get there. I turned on the accessibility features in tables but I'm not sure they make a difference.
I'm really clammering here. I've relied on spreadsheeting to run my business for 3 years and since open office is now pooched, there hasn't been a single decent solution for mac. I'm planning to buy tables just for the convenience of jumping to a cell by co-ordinates which I can't off hand see how to accomplish in numbers. Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-11-18, at 10:52 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I tried to duplicate this with a spreadsheet with over 220 rows but did not > get the same result. Granted, your sheet may be more complicated than mine > with more formulas and calculations. Have you tried turning Cursor Tracking > off (fn-VO-shift-f3 when navigating through the sheet? When using this > method, you will need to do an extra step to bring focus back together but it > does make the navigation experience smoother. > > With Cursor Tracking Off, there are two basic methods to navigate: > > 1. Navigate up or down, right or left either with VO keys down (lock them > down with VO-semi-colon if you wish) then bring things back together with > fn-VO-cmd-f4. > > 2. Use up/down and right/left arrows to navigate around then toggle Cursor > Tracking back on to bring focus back together. You'll need to navigate one > cell away then back again to force the focus together. > > Having Cursor Tracking off also allows the fast movement to the end of your > spreadsheet without causing things to go busy. > > See if this helps you at all. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-11-18, at 4:56 AM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Listers, >> >> I've searched the archives of googlegroups for the answer but failed to find >> one. >> >> My spreadsheet is now over 100 rows long and it is growing. Increasingly, >> Numbers has become extremely sluggish, so much so that it is driving me mad. >> The constant "busy busy" message, the sluggishness with which I can move >> from cell to cell is making me think that I won't be able to use Numbers any >> more for the purpose of working with long spreadsheet tables. Is there >> another solution? Does anyone else experience the same issue? I've switched >> off autocomplete text in cells and it has initially improved the issue but >> the longer my spreadsheet becomes, the more impossible it is to use Numbers. >> I've tried Tables application but it is even worse so I have to ditch it. >> Also, with my spreadsheet having so many rows, it takes ages to arrow up and >> down the columns to get to the end of the table in order to enter more data. >> Adn And again, when arrowing up and down, Numbers is very slow and >> eventually Voiceover gets stuck on one particular cell and keeps repeating >> its content over and over again unless I arrow up and down very very slowly. >> >> I'd welcome any suggestions. I'd be reluctant to have to install Fusion but >> if this is the only option, I may have to. But then I'd have to buy Ms >> Office which is very expensive. >> >> In case it helps, I run Mountain Lion on Macbook Air, 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 >> Duo, 4GB RAM, 256 GB solid drive. Does Numbers perform better on newer >> machines? I understand I can't add more RAM to my macbook air. It's late >> 2010 and I have the maximum RAM possible. >> >> Many thanks for any suggestions >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
