Numbers

Kommentare: As I've been using Numbers more and more frequently, I find myself liking the simple design that is cohesive with Pages and some of the other software I'm currently using.

Vorteile: I find Numbers easy to use on a Mac device and easy to open documents that were developed in Excel or Google Spreadsheets. I like the user-friendly interface and the ability to modify documents as needed. It is easy to adapt the Numbers spreadsheets and the data-entry process is intuitive.

Nachteile: I find it more challenging to create totals for columns or to use some of the Sum or other functionality as compared to Excel.

Kommentare: It was a solid and reliable piece of software, and you can't beat the low price of Free. Using it involved some gymnastics from time to time, dealing with the fact that Excel is still the dominant software in this space. I would recommend this, if you are simply looking to do some spreadsheets for yourself at home, and don't anticipate to need any crazy or specific features, and also don't plan on collaborating with a team of people who primarily use Excel.

Vorteile: This was my introduction to spreadsheets, instead of Excel, as it was built into the Mac ecosystem. As a first-time spreadsheet user, many many years ago, it was easy to use, intuitive and made sense. As opposed to Excel, which has a "canvas" that is 100% spreadsheet (the canvas is all cells and your data can go anywhere), Numbers operates on a "table" basis, with an infinite canvas. It allows you to place neat tables wherever you need, so you can lay two data-sets side by side. Numbers formulas are also quite intuitive, giving you handy tooltips and overlays about what each of the formulas means as you go through them. It handled complex boolean logic, advanced arithmetic, and conditional statements without a problem. However, some of the formulas were a little bit limited​ and were absolutely not fully featured compared to Excel. Integration within the Apple ecosystem was wonderful. Documents synced instantly to all my devices relying on iCloud, and changes were pushed quickly. The collaboration​ was great, although not necessarily fully developed.​

Nachteile: The main con of this software is that it's not Excel. It sounds stupid, but in using both Numbers and Excel for separate purposes, the differences are clear. Having to transition around and around from the industry-standard​ Excel to Numbers, which operates just on a slightly different basis can be jarring. Numbers, at the time of writing, was also missing some handy features, such as solving, data analysis, and additional plugins. The exporting into Excel, for those people that don't use Mac, could result in some data being jumbled if using complicated Numbers-specific formulas or formats. The same is true for the other way, as most people won't send you a Numbers document, but an Excel document.

Kommentare: Overall my experience with Numbers has been great. It serves my needs and I like that it's integrated into the Mac. I use it daily and it's great that it synchs across devices. It saves me from having to interact with Microsoft too much.

Vorteile: I don't do anything crazy with spreadsheets, I find numbers to do what I need it to. I track clients and prospects, how many hours I'm working, etc. I also use Numbers as a checklist. I really like the templates that it offers. I've used the event planning one and the food journal templates. It's a really nice design (thanks Apple) and it's really nice that it comes with my computer rather than having to buy a separate software package.

Nachteile: I've had some trouble opening it on my phone, but I think that's just a general software update issue. I'm hoping in the next release, it will be fixed. I haven't tried using pivot tables or anything like that (hopefully I'll never have to!). I think it's good for everyday use rather than trying to recreate ridiculous models using excel. It would be good if it was offered to non-Mac users so I wouldn't have to buy MS Excel to send docs to my clients, but this isn't a huge deal since they can open Numbers in Excel.

Kommentare: My overall experience with Numbers has been great. It has been helpful in expediting certain aspects of our business, as well as made "spreadsheeting" headache free.

Vorteile: Numbers is a very user friendly and content rich program for creating spreadsheets and numerous other documents that are data driven. Compared to other spreadsheet programs, Numbers is much more intuitive and easy to master. Overall this is a great product for expediting workflow or creating great (aesthetically and qualitatively) presentations.

Nachteile: There is not much that I dislike able Numbers. However, as with any Apple product, you are either a Mac person or you are not. So that may limit/influence one's preference for such a product as this.

Kommentare: Numbers has been usefull at times that there is no Microsoft Excel Available,due to the way that it is basically the same product, just from a different company.

Vorteile: Numbers is a software that has different features, but realisticly its the “excel” version of apple. I liked the most the connectivity it brings with all apple devices and through all aplle softwares such as the document sharing platform they have.

Nachteile: I liked the least about Numbers the way that it is not compatible sometimes at the moments of sending the document to a third party, meaning by this that sometimes the data gets corrupted or even it changes the physical appearance of the document, so when its opened its a completely different document.