Apple numbers User Manual

    Working with Shapes, Graphics, and Other Objects 

 

To restore the original settings, click Reset Image. 

To save any changes you made, save the spreadsheet. The settings at the time you save 
the spreadsheet are visible anytime you open the Adjust Image window.

If you intend to greatly enlarge or reduce a graphic’s dimensions, consider converting it 
to a PDF file before bringing it into Numbers. PDF files don’t lose their crispness when 
they are significantly resized. Other file types may not retain their clarity as well when 
they are enlarged or reduced. 

PDF files also provide a great way to move tabular data from Excel or AppleWorks 
documents into Numbers. If you have extensively formatted tables in Excel or an 
AppleWorks spreadsheet that you want to display in your spreadsheet, you can save 
the spreadsheet as a PDF file and then place that PDF file on a page as you would any 
other external graphics file.

In your Excel or AppleWorks spreadsheet, select the table range you want to display in 
your spreadsheet.

Choose File > Print.

In the Print dialog, choose Save as PDF from the PDF pop-up menu.

In the Save dialog, type a name for the PDF file and select a location, and then click 
Save.

You can copy a range of cells in an Excel document and paste the cells and their 
contents directly into your spreadsheet. Numbers creates a new table to hold the Excel 
data.

You can also convert an image to a PDF file by using Grab. Open Grab (it’s in the 
Applications/Utilities folder). Choose Capture > Selection to select what you want to 
create an image of. Choose File > Print to save the image as a PDF.