This perhaps isn't the best place to ask this question but I haven't been able to find any site where I feel I'd get a usable answer. Maybe someone here knows or can tell me a good place to ask.
This has to do with the Numbers app on the iPad (and the iPhone ... that is, the iOS version). I have a couple of spreadsheets which are basically just information databases. They do get updated occasionally, but I use them mostly only to look things up. Each is considerably larger than the screen, so I need to scroll around in them to find what I want.
In the OS X version, this is very easy: just use the two-finger scroll gesture on a touch pad, or, for that matter, a single-finger scroll on a scrolling mouse such as the Apple Magic Mouse.
However, I haven't found any satisfactory way to do it in the iOS version. It's easy enough to use a one-finger scroll gesture to move around, but if you're not VERY careful, the program decides you want to choose a cell and goes into update mode -- which is exactly what I don't want and can easily lead to data corruption.
I have no idea what they're actually for, but there are also two-, three-, and four-finger scroll gestures that do move the spreadsheet around, but not in any way that I've been able to make do what I need. I can't make the two-finger consistently move anything, but when it does, it's something like what I want. The three- and four-finger seem always to change the zoom -- which is useless.
Does anyone have any idea what I should be doing?
Many thanks for any suggestions.
Stratton McAllister
Posted by: 73357.3046@compuserve.com
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