Numbers
Numbers User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started with Numbers
- Intro to images, graphs 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
Save a large spreadsheet as a package in Numbers on Mac
By default, Numbers saves your spreadsheet as a single file. If your spreadsheet is over 500 MB, Numbers may perform better if you save the spreadsheet as a package.
Save a large spreadsheet as a package
Save as a package file: Click anywhere in the spreadsheet window to make it active, then choose File > Advanced > Change File Type > Package (from the File menu at the top of your screen).
Revert a package file to single-file format: Choose File > Advanced > Change File Type > Single File. You may need to revert because some web or email services don’t allow you to upload or attach a package file.
See the Apple Support article Save documents as a package or a single file for more information.
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