Numbers User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, charts and other objects
- Create a spreadsheet
- Open or close spreadsheets
- Personalise templates
- Use sheets
- Undo or redo changes
- Save your spreadsheet
- Find a spreadsheet
- Delete a spreadsheet
- Print a spreadsheet
- Change the sheet background
- Touch Bar for Numbers
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- Use iCloud with Numbers
- Import an Excel or text file
- Export to Excel or another file format
- Reduce the spreadsheet file size
- Save a large spreadsheet as a package file
- Restore an earlier version of a spreadsheet
- Move a spreadsheet
- Lock a spreadsheet
- Password-protect a spreadsheet
- Create and manage custom templates
- Copyright
Use dictation to enter text in Numbers on Mac
Go to the Numbers app on your Mac.
Open a spreadsheet, then place the insertion point where you want to begin dictating, or select the text you want to replace.
Choose Edit > Start Dictation (from the Edit menu at the top of your screen).
If you haven’t used dictation before, follow the guided setup instructions that appear.
When the microphone appears, start speaking.
To add punctuation, speak its name (for example, comma or apostrophe).
Click Done below the microphone when you’ve finished.
Tip: When dictation is set up, you can also change the shortcut key or the language. To change your dictation settings, choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Keyboard in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) The dictation settings section are on the right.
To learn more about dictation, click the desktop to switch to the Finder, choose Help > macOS Help (from the Help menu at the top of your screen), then search for “dictation”.