Numbers User Guide for iPad
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, charts and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open spreadsheets
- Prevent accidental editing
- Personalise templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Copy text and objects between apps
- Customise the toolbar
- Touchscreen basics
- Use Apple Pencil with Numbers
- Copyright
Adjust character spacing in Numbers on iPad
You can use ligatures, a decorative joining of two characters to form a single typographic character, to affect character spacing. You can use ligatures in your spreadsheet if the font you’re using supports them.
Turn ligatures on or off for selected text
Go to the Numbers app
on your iPad.Open a spreadsheet, then select the text you want to change, or select a text box to change all the text in it.
For specific text: The character spacing applies only to that text.
For a text box: The character spacing applies to any text you type in the box after you apply the change.
Tap
, then tap 
in the Font section.If you can’t see text controls, tap Text or Cell.
Tap a Ligatures option:
Default: Uses the default ligature settings for the font you’re using, which may not be all the ligatures available for the font.
None: Uses standard spacing with no ligatures for the font.
All: Uses all available ligatures for the font.