Numbers 4+

Long time Apple user,
I still find numbers a cleaner program to use than excel however it is well behind Google sheets and forms. Even Microsoft is catching up with their latest Forms copy.
I’m hoping that the in-house “Shortcuts” iOS app may make up some ground. Please release some actions and better native integration with Numbers to Shortcuts so users can start creating their own automated forms and workflows. At the moment every Numbers shortcut action seems to create either a line on a new spreadsheet or a blank line on an existing.
Or you could do the work for us and make a better and more customizable forms experience, URL links etc. That would be amazing as for all the focus apple puts on cloud based integration, compared to Google Sheets and Forms Numbers is still a stand-alone spreadsheet and doesn’t play well with others.

I switched from Excel because I am us8ng my iPad a lot more, and Numbers once you get used to it in a short time is a breath of fresh air. It’s great that you can have multiple tables within a sheet so that you can operate independent on each table....brilliant! The output looks clean and colourful and organised, unlike Excel. However the following features should be a must even for the iPad version....Format copy-need this so badly but does not exist, Auto sum when you select a bunch of numbers...it’s there on the Mac but not on iPad. A toolbar right at the top with icons for formatting instead of having to open the format pane...just reduces the finger clicks one needs to do. I do notice a bug some times...if numbers has been “open” for a long time, sometimes when you add a new cell with a formula, it does not auto calculate...just shows blank. Was wondering what was happening...but it gets fixed if I close the numbers app completely and re open it. Other than that, this is now my go-to spreadsheet app. Apple has done a great job here as an alternative to Excel.

I have always love how easy to use this app is. However, I am in the middle of completing a complex and long project, with many spread sheets including budgets, Gantt charts, work breakdown structures etc. I have been working on this project for over a year with no problem. Then today, While working on my project a pop up stating “updating spreadsheet” comes up (I have never seen this before) the program freezes and closes. When I open the project I was working on, whenever I try to add something or make any change apart from “copy”, it throws up the pop up and crashes again. I am heart broken I have to remake the spread sheets. I start to, this time breaking them up instead of having as many sheets within each one. When I get onto the second, I am half way through and it throws the bubble up again and freezes to the point I actually have to close out of the program. I can still work on this sheet but I am seriously considering changing to another program because I DO NOT want to have to START ALL OVER AGAIN, AGAIN! 😭

How can I fix this??