The Right Number

I do not use spreadsheets very often. I do not make graphs from data very often either.

However, I had to make some graphs for my [talk][1] at [CocoonGT2007][2].

I used the new [Numbers][3] from [Apple][4], part of [iWork'08][5].

I was very impressed. Slick, fast, intuitive. From never having used it before, I was making what I needed within minutes, you can’t say better than that, can you?

I needed to use graphs made in Numbers, within my presentation made in [Keynote][6] (the reason I have iWork). Copy & Paste did the trick obviously, but what got copied? I expected it would either retain a live link with the original file (like OLE?) or that it would copy over an un-editable object. Wrong on both counts, it copies a Graph Object that is still recognised by Keynote, allowing you to further edit data there, (or further fudge your results, as the case may be ……. not that I actually had to do that myself of course !! )

It is not perfect, there are a few bugs with the graphics engine etc., shared by the other iWork apps ….. little niggles ….. stuff they will hopefully fix soon ……

There is a 30 day free trial, give it a go.

[1]: {% post_url 2007-09-19-see-you-in-rome %} [2]: http://cocoongt.org [3]: http://www.apple.com/iwork/numbers/ [4]: http://www.apple.com [5]: http://www.apple.com/iwork/ [6]: http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/