Friends Kingdom: [iPad] Re: Numbers scrolling

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Re: Numbers scrolling
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@icloud.com jimdoc01
Date: Thu Apr 28, 2016 3:58 pm ((PDT))

>> I seem to manage by scrolling with one finger. Just don't let it pause on a cell. Make contact with the screen with the finger already moving, and bring it up off the screen before stopping moving.
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>> If I inadvertently select a cell, I tap someplace off the edge of the spreadsheet to de-select it.
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> Yes, this is what I've been doing -- though I hadn't stumbled on to the "don't let it pause" part. Maybe that will let me do a better job (if I can manage to be dexterous enough – ah, aged hands!).
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> As for moving off the edge, I do that too. But remember, these are relatively large spreadsheets. The edge might be ten or more pages away…

I just checked with my "large" sheet (300-some rows, several screens of columns). I find that I "deselect" by tapping in the "Table Name" row at the top (I have header rows and columns frozen). It may still be a cell, but it's a pretty safe cell.

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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@icloud.com

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Now that I hadn't thought of. Yes, it should work very well. Thanks.

But I still think the capability to scroll without selecting should have been part of the implementation. It's there in OS X, why not in iOS?

Incidentally, I assume you are also aware that you CAN scroll without selecting merely by swiping outside the edge of the spreadsheet. Not very useful for the spreadsheet size I'm talking about however.

Thanks, Jim

Stratton McAllister

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